(ANSA) - Rome, March 8 - A group representing American
victims of priest sex abuse on Friday publicly pushed for the
removal of a recently installed Vatican prosecutor because of
his record on clergy pedophilia cases in the United States.
"Father Robert Oliver of Boston has a troubling track
record on child sex abuse," said David Clohessy, director of
SNAP, or the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Oliver, a canonist who oversaw clergy sex-abuse cases in
Boston at the height of the scandal, was promoted to the
position under the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith in December by Benedict XVI.
SNAP accuses the priest, who was ordained by and worked
under disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law, of having changed
archdiocesan policy in Boston to make it harder for victims to
expose predators and easier for the accused to return to active
ministry.
Because of these allegations and others, "SNAP wants the
next pope to remove Oliver promptly," the group said in a Rome
hotel Friday.
Vatican spokesman Father Ciro Benedettini said the Church
could not comment in the absence of a pope.
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