I don’t know when I last wrote in this diary, a while ago I am sure! I have been terribly busy, all good stuff, but lots to do. After marching in last weeks Secular Europe campaign, I felt like I had been run over by a bus! But I have…
When I started this diary I ‘promised’ not to write every day and I think I did live up to my promise…it has quite a while since I sat down to share some thoughts with you. But it feels like a good moment to do so now… The last weeks…
Irish Times – September 5, 2011 by PATSY McGARRY It takes 25 pages and 11,000 words to say – ‘nothing to do with us’ ANALYSIS: The Holy See reaction to the Irish report is marked by a failure to address core concerns, writes PATSY McGARRY THE VATICAN’S response to the…
Sunday Independent – September 4, 2011 by RONALD QUINLAN and MAEVE SHEEHAN Clerical abusers shielded by ‘cabal’ of protection in church The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has admitted that “a cabal” protecting clerical sex abusers may be operating at the highest levels in the Catholic Church. Dr Martin…
Saturday September 3, 2011 – by Colm O’Gorman Vatican suggestion that it did not undermine reporting of abuse is simply untrue. The response of the Holy See to the Cloyne Report seeks to portray the Vatican as having never been opposed to the idea that Bishops should co-operate with civil…
I have been too early when suggesting that the Irish government bows to the Vatican. (Article: WikiLeaks – Handling of the Irish Crisis: http://survivorsvoice-europe.org/?p=1432) And although I still have my reservations concerning modern times’ politicians and their relations with the Vatican, I have been wrong. An answer has now been…
Below you find the full report published at WikiLeaks concerning the handling of, what is called the “Sex Abuse Scandal”, by the Vatican. It is not up to me to advise you to mistrust your politicians, but it you read this report and how the physical or sexual abuse of…
Reuters – Monday, August 29, 2011 – by Andrew Stern; Editing by Cynthia Johnston CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago’s Catholic archdiocese will allow dozens of former priests accused of child sexual abuse to be identified as part of a settlement that moves the church closer to naming all offending clergy, a…
by Beau Donelly – 30 August 2011 The church in cahoots with the legal profession to further compound abuse of victims – MP’s what are you doing? From 1969 to 1988 Christian Brother Robert Best sexually assaulted 11 boys in his care. Decades later his victims are still struggling with…
Boston Globe – August 25, 2011 by Michael Rezendes Nearly 10 years after a worldwide clergy sexual abuse crisis erupted in the Boston Archdiocese, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley yesterday released a long-awaited list of 159 archdiocesan clerics who have been accused of sexually abusing children. But critics quickly called the…
