Survivors Network (SNAP)

June 29, 2022

Another Win for Religious Freedom

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District represents another victory for religious freedom and pushes back against the idea that religion must be invisible in the United States.

May 6, 2015

Factors that Led to Bishop Finn’s Resignation

by Frank Kessler

Two weeks ago, Bishop Robert Finn, the embattled bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph in Missouri, had his resignation accepted by appropriate authorities in the Vatican. Canon law accepts "graves reasons" other than things like age, infimity and so on as sufficient reason for the Church to accept a bishop’s resignation because [...]

March 24, 2014

The Bishop of Bridgeport: Voice of the Faithful’s Latest Target

by Anne Hendershott

If it is true, as novelist Don DeLillo once wrote, “The future belongs to crowds,” then the future of the Catholic Church might once have belonged to activist groups critical of the Church, like Boston-bred Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), and the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). With savvy leaders who [...]