October 2015 | SNAP New England leader talks with UK reporter about his childhood abuse, how having AIDS in 1992 freed him up to find the courage to go public with his story of abuse, and also how he feels about having actor Neal Huff portray him in the Spotlight movie.
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2015 | Phil Saviano on the Story That Inspired New Movie ‘Spotlight’
2002 | WHYY-FM Philadelphia, PA “Radio Times” Talk Show, February 27, 2002
Recorded broadcast from the Philadelphia NPR radio station, WHYY features a discussion on the unfolding Catholic clergy abuse crisis. Guests include SNAP’s Phil Saviano, Catherine Rossi, the director of communications for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and Rev. James Gill, a psychiatrist and Jesuit priest working at the Institute of Living, a residential psychiatric hospital in Hartford, CT. Note that three years after this broadcast, in September 2005, a Grand Jury announced findings that Philadelphia Cardinal Bevilacqua and his predecessor orchestrated a systematic cover-up spanning four decades. They managed to shield from criminal charges 63 priests who had molested hundreds of children.
1997 | Launch of New England Chapter of SNAP
Area survivors of sexual abuse by clergy are forming a New England Chapter of the Chicago-based SNAP — Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. Regional coordinator of the chapter will be Phil Saviano, a native of the Worcester Diocese, now living in Boston. READ PRESS RELEASE ON PDF