The Bishops Get Tough

The Catholic Church, after a period in which it admitted it was wrong in covering up the actions of pedophilic priests, has now decided to get tough.  The Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, has been the target of legal actions by the Church to disclose any documents that, during the past 23 years (!), might contain any information that could be relevant to a legal case in Kansas City. William Donahue, President of a church advocacy group in New York has said that “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church….[The bishops] had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don’t need altar boys.”  For a previous post on a related issue, see Bishop Finn.

The Church is really scared it seems

That SNAP could threaten its existence

So they demand, with great persistence,

That SNAP disclose to what extremes

Its emails show that it conspired

With others to destroy the Church.

And so they launch a mammoth search

To see just what may have transpired.

But SNAP’s allied with those whom priests

Have raped and sodomized so long

Ago, and though the Church is strong

Its perils, it fears, might have increased.

“We’ll not let weakness and remorse,

Nor feelings for the victims’ plights

Persuade us to give up our rights -

Defend the Church’s the proper course”

Now SNAP’s the David in this fight

Against Goliath of our modern day - 

With lots of lawyers in his pay -

But David’s still the one who’s right.