Years ago, a number of Catholic World Report articles
argued the case that the group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused
by Priests) – whom the media has called upon repeatedly over the years
as a reliable voice to bash the Catholic Church over its handling of the
sex abuse crisis – was actually nothing more than a front group for
contingency lawyers and was driven by a deep ideological animus against
the Church.
Now, recent lawsuits against the organization, including one by SNAP’s
own former director of development, have, if anything, revealed that
those arguments were too modest in their estimation of SNAP’s inner
workings.