{"id":5379,"date":"2021-12-18T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2021-12-19T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:33:26","slug":"survivors-group-slams-bishop-fisher-in-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"Survivors group rebukes Bishop Fisher for treating whistleblower as \u201cenemy\u201d in mass mailing to every cleric and most nuns and lay advisors in Diocese of Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n

Two years after whistleblower Rev. Ryszard Biernat\u2019s removal from active ministry<\/a>, survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Buffalo sent a stern message to every single bishop, priest, deacon, and most lay advisors and nuns in the diocese: Diocesan \u201crenewal\u201d is a farce if officials who covered up clergy sexual abuse reports are not held accountable while they hold Father Biernat accountable for exposing such \u201cfoul deeds.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\"\"The Buffalo Survivors Group<\/a>‘s two-page letter, mass-mailed last week, used Bishop Michael Fisher\u2019s own words to demonstrate what the group’s leaders say they view as hypocrisy–touting \u201cdiocesan renewal\u201d while at the same time silencing\/shaming\/banning from ministry the priest and fellow clergy sexual abuse survivor who blew the whistle on specific diocesan officials.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To date, NO diocesan official has been held accountable for professional malfeasance in covering up\/ignoring\/botching reports of clergy sexual abuse. Some\u00a0are cited in the 2020 New York State Attorney General\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> against the Diocese of Buffalo\u2019s bishops.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The letter, signed by BSG founding members on behalf of the group, is a stinging rebuke of Bishop Fisher\u2019s Viewpoints piece published in the Buffalo News<\/em>, \u201cDiocese Turning the Corner on its Road to Renewal<\/a>\u201d [Sep 27, 2021] which the group cited. A version of the BSG letter was reprinted in the Buffalo News<\/em> op-ed section on December 2.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Buffalo Survivors Group letter is below:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Two years after whistleblower Rev. Ryszard Biernat\u2019s removal from active ministry, survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Buffalo sent a stern message to every single bishop, priest, deacon, and most lay advisors and nuns in the diocese: \u201cRenewal\u201d is a farce if diocesan officials who covered up clergy sexual abuse reports are not held accountable while they hold Father Biernat accountable for exposing such \u201cfoul deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7295316,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[691052677,687837688,691052662],"tags":[691052667,123451347,2878280,687837787,691052648,41178],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disturbing-actions-of-the-bishop-of-buffalo","category-lay-advisory-groups","category-rev-ryszard-biernat","tag-bishop-michael-fisher","tag-catholic-diocese-of-buffalo","tag-clergy-sexual-abuse","tag-fr-ryszard-biernat","tag-movement-to-restore-trust","tag-whistleblower","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb24kG-1oL","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/laydob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_5414.jpg?fit=2045%2C612&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7295316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laydob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}