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If NBC’s TODAY Show can ask the question, “Where in the world is Matt Lauer,” why can’t the National Survivor Advocates Coalition ask a similar question? Where in the world is Bob Hoatson? Right now, he is in New Jersey.

HELPING VICTIMS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE:
SUGGESTIONS FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI

FATHERS HOATSON AND LASCH TO PRESENT WORKSHOP AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Father Bob Hoatson and Father Ken Lasch, co-founders of “Road to Recovery,” a non-profit charity that assists survivors of clergy and other sexual abuse, will present a workshop at the “Male Survivor International Conference” entitled “Helping Survivors Get On the Road to Recovery. The workshop will take place on Sunday, March 21, from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. For more information, please go to Malesurvivor.com.

MAY 20, 2003 and 2009 – A DAY THAT MIGHT LIVE IN INFAMY

STATEMENT BY REV. ROBERT M. HOATSON, PH.D., PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF “ROAD TO RECOVERY,” P.O. BOX 279, LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY 07039

“THE POPE EXPRESSES SHOCK AND OUTRAGE”

When the leader of over a billion Catholics expresses shock and outrage, as Pope Benedict XVI did today, after reading the “Murphy Report” about sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese and its cover-up by numerous bishops, it is expected that he will follow-up with definitive and concerted action.

Road to Recovery recommends that Pope Benedict:

To the Editor of the Star Ledger:

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STOP FEEDING THE BEAST

In light of the release of the “Murphy Report” on child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland, Road to Recovery, Inc., a New Jersey-based non-profit organization that assists clergy abuse survivors with their recoveries from abuse, calls on all Catholics to withhold contributions from their Church until Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Church authorities who covered-up and enabled the serial abuse of children worldwide RESIGN, ARE REMOVED, ARE INDICTED, AND/OR ARE IMPRISONED.

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Rev. Robert M. Hoatson, Founder and President
Rev. Kenneth Lasch, Co-founder
Road to Recovery, Inc. (serving clergy abuse survivors)
P.O. Box 279
Livingston, NJ 07039

“Fortnight” Magazine
Northern Ireland
by Murrough O’Brien

“It’s soul murder,” says Fr. Bob Hoatson. “It’s unique because it takes even God away.” Soul murder – that sounds about right for what a priest does when he abuses innocence. Fr. Bob knows what he’s talking about: he was abused himself. What this does to self esteem he sums up with savage concision.

“You think, ‘I must be a real piece of shit, because even God doesn’t love me in the right way’.”