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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Records show that John Paul II could have intervened in abuse crisis - but didn't | National Catholic Reporter

Records show that John Paul II could have intervened in abuse crisis - but didn't | National Catholic Reporter



This is an important article, the day before the Vatican will slap the face of every clergy abuse survivor by canonising this man. A real real slap in the face and a dishonour to all those we value as TRUE saints!



And the ordinary Catholic has no say in this perverse 'joke'!

Friday, April 11, 2014

Those who denied the truth of Christine Buckley’s story, silent since her death - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Tue, Apr 08, 2014

Those who denied the truth of Christine Buckley’s story, silent since her death - Religious News & Affairs | The Irish Times - Tue, Apr 08, 2014



Champion Irish Woman.  May she Rest in Peace

Pope asks forgiveness for ‘evil’ of clerical child abuse - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Fri, Apr 11, 2014

Pope asks forgiveness for ‘evil’ of clerical child abuse - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Fri, Apr 11, 2014



On the one hand he apologises for quite a few priest abusers then (of course) minimizes this by immediately saying 'but of course few given the numbers of priests',,,,well he didn't HAVE to say this.  The very fact he did just shows that the Church is STILL in denial.



In any case, not many victims want the Pope to 'apologise'...They want justice, or their files from Rome, or priests reported to police, or taken out of Africa or South America where sex offender priests are hidden/dumped...there's so much this Pope needs to do and APOLOGY is one of them





Sunday, April 6, 2014

interview with tom doyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Th6xo9vxM

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday



Listen to Archbishop Nichols from the UK on the Sunday Programme this morning .  previously 'in charge' of Child protection when Bishop in Birmingham.



His tenure was less than honourable but 'THE TRUTH' is not OUT - yet.



Here what a woman writes after listening to him:



It seems to me that if the Vatican wishes to explore the dynamics of human trafficking and exploitation of the vulnerable it should include in its considerations the role played by the most powerful transglobal institutions, the Catholic Church in trafficking sex offenders around the world to exploit and abuse the most vulnerable, women and children. The Church moved sex offenders across countries, continents and the world where they were able to harvest women, men and children in Catholic institutions; schools, convents, seminaries, hospitals, parish churches. . . Let the Vatican count the numbers of children, women and the vulnerable exploited by its officers worldwide.
 
Let the Catholic Church count the children taken from poor, young and vulnerable women in Ireland, England, Spain, South America, Africa . . . and trafficked across the world and within countries to be sold to wealthy Catholic families who could bring them up as ‘good Catholics’.
 
The Cardinal sounded hypocritical and less than authentic this morning. He hesitated and then turned away from confronting the Government with the truth on its pernicious welfare ‘reforms’ which are designed to punish the poorest in our society for the sins of the wealthiest. The Cardinal betrayed the poor by his moral cowardice as he was announcing the launch of a joint initiative for the poor in England with Archbishop Welby. ABC can only be tarnished by such associations.
 
Cardinal Nichols has caused great harm to many victims of abuse perpetrated within Catholic institutions in this country; he continues to refuse to meet with and respond to organisations working with survivors, preferring to vilify and deny them and call them mad, evil and liars. He has done nothing to shed any light on why Irish sex offenders were sent to this country to continue abusing children within the Catholic church, or why the Archdiocese of Birmingham trafficked sex offenders to America, Africa and Australia when reports of abuse were made and police began investigating, and why the Archdiocese continued to pay them monthly for decades. Cardinal Nichols has done nothing to ease the suffered of the many thousands abused and exploited by clergy and members of religious communities in this country.
 
Let us see actions rather than words, and a focus on here and now and the injustices and harm caused within the Catholic Church, rather than on someone else’s problems ‘over there’ which the Cardinal continues to pontificate about as if some kind of expert, which he clearly isn’t.
 
Alana