Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) president Barbara Blaine is asked to leave St. Peter’s square by Vatican security in 2005 prior to the election of Pope Benedict XVI. RNS file photo by Rene Shaw.

(RNS) Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) president Barbara Blaine at a 2005 press conference in Rome after the death of Pope John Paul II, holding a photo of herself at age 12 when she was abused by a Catholic priest. The recent global sex abuse scandal has thrust Blaine and SNAP back into the spotlight. RNS file photo by Rene Shaw.