JUNE 2010 | MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO – Phil Saviano had a chance to meet the woman who gave him a kidney nine months ago shortly before the two had surgery in a Boston hospital. He is spending six days in the Twin Cities with Susan Pavlak, the woman with whom he shares not only a kidney, but also a troubled past and now a friendship. READ REPORT, LISTEN TO BROADCAST
2009 | Saving a Fellow Survivor
August 2009 | BOSTON GLOBE – Minnesota Woman to Donate Kidney Today After Roslindale Man Reached Out for Help From Other Victims of Clergy Abuse. Susan Pavlak steps up to keep Phil Saviano alive.
2009 | Kidney Transplant Links Two Clergy Abuse Survivors
August 26, 2009 | PIONEER PRESS – Phil Saviano spent years fighting for the victims of clergy abuse, an effort spurred by his own bitter experience at the hands of a priest. Later, with Saviano’s health slipping after a long battle with AIDS, he turned for support – and a new kidney – to the very network he helped nurture. No fewer than seven clergy abuse victims answered Saviano’s appeal.