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John Salveson is co-founder and principal of Salveson Stetson Group, a retained executive search firm in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Susan, have three children (including a son, Peter, who will be a junior at Notre Dame) and live in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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- Hope For The Future
In 2003, when reports of the sex abuse crisis were rippling widely throughout the American Catholic Church, I wrote an article for this magazine that described my abuse by Father Robert D. Huneke, a diocesan priest, which occurred while I was growing up on Long Island and later after he followed me to Notre Dame. At that time, I viewed the clergy s...
Slowly, eventually, I figured out the reason for the lack of progress within the Church. It really was simple. I had long believed the Roman Catholic Church considered the child sex-abuse crisis to be a moral issue. So I expected clergy to care about the victims and to do the right thing. But the simple truth I had learned over time was this: Much ...
When all of this finally became clear to me, I shifted the direction of my efforts. Instead of trying to get the Church to change, I focused on the societal institutions that are supposed to protect children but which had miserably failed to protect young Catholics from predator priests. I created FACSA, the Foundation to Abolish Child Sex Abuse (a...
Many Catholics consider these revelations old hat. They believe the promises that things have changed. Certainly the faithful in Philadelphia believed their leaders’ promises that they had corrected the problems which were exposed in the searing 2005 grand jury report. But their trust was shattered when a second grand jury, looking again at the Arc...
The work of grand juries has had a profound impact on exposing the actions of sexual predators and their enablers. But far and away the most effective tool to protect children and identify sexual predators requires changes to the civil statutes of limitations. In most states, victims of abuse must file civil suits soon after the abuse took place — ...
Over the past several years, it seems that the world has become more sensitive to the sexual abuse of children. In the Catholic Church, evidence of abuse and cover-ups by Church leaders has been exposed in Ireland, Mexico and several other countries across the globe. The Boy Scouts of America have admitted to decades of problems with abusive scout ...
In January I spoke at a press conference in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania State House. The topic was the introduction of two new bills that would alter the statute of limitations to give child sex abuse victims a shot at justice and at the same time would expose predators still hidden. It wasn’t my first press conference in Harrisburg, but as I s...
John Salveson, SSG's legacy is truly remarkable, and I feel immensely privileged to have had the opportunity to work with Sally, John, and you (obviously a few years ago ;)). The foundation you ...
Feb 19, 2005 · John Salveson has written a very deep and emotional essay. He is a real man, who has walked among you and upon your campus. He is a real man, who has walked among you and upon your campus. The next time you hear it uttered or exhorted that clergy abuse was the result of “a few bad apples,” or that half-million dollar word “Transparency,” think of John.
Oct 17, 2018 · According to the lawsuit, Huneke had previously been assigned to St. Dominic's parish in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, in Long Island, N.Y., where he sexually molested a boy named John Salveson.
- Former Times Reporter
John Salvesen. John Salvesen (Republican Party) (also known as Bongo) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 5th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Republican primary on May 21, 2024. Salvesen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey ...
Last year's magazine article reverberated in Salveson's childhood parish of St. Dominic in Oyster Bay, N.Y. In the article, Salveson recounted meeting with Monsignor John Alesandro, then chancellor of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, several weeks after he distributed the letters to parishioners about Huneke's history of abuse.
