The UK National Secular Society has submitted a 50 page report to the Social Rights Committee of the Council of Europe severely critical of the Irish government’s subservience to the Catholic Church over many decades in respect of child abuse. The report was prepared by the NSS’s Executive Director, Keith…
Looking back at when I went to London last year to speak at the pope protest, I think I was ill equipped, and had not thought how it would effect me. I had just “come out” publicly with my abuses, after it was highlighted in a magazine article. I don’t…
This is probably how it is going to be…me writing about a day, a day late. Actually I shouldn’t. It would be so much better to finish the day thinking about every thing that has happened and to close the day consciously of everybody and everything. Unfortunately that will rarely…
August 23rd. First day!! After talking to a fellow abuse survivor in depth about his story today, I was left with that now familiar “see saw ” feeling emotions. I still get so angry when I see the dismissal of people by the catholic church, human beings who have been…
So…now we have done it. We have put our diaries online. We have spoken about it for months: wouldn’t it be great to share our ramblings and our daily discussions via Skype, with others. Unknown, anonymous, people sitting in their own house in their own world in their own life,…
by Ton Leerschool – Survivors Voice Europe Because the voices of the survivors must be heard. Today the 2011 World Youth Day comes to an end. Seven days of indoctrination, stale excuses for the over 2000 years of catholic terror, empty rethorics about ‘truth’ and ‘christian behaviour’, recrutement by Opus…
Sub-title: “Selected, Groomed, Abused” by: Ton Leerschool Last night I watched the British award-winning documentary: “Chosen” of Brian Woods on television. It is the brave, extraordinary account of three men in their forties about their abuse during stay at a public school in England. Tom Perry, Alastair Rolfe and Mark…
by Ton Leerschool Early morning on August 16, I was woken up by the news of yet another dimension in the abuse drama in the Netherlands and I was shocked…and believe me in the almost 10 years I have been involved in exposing the cover-up of the catholic church in…
Delaware Online – August 7, 2011 by Beth Miller As it pays for the past, diocese tries to move on Church vows to emerge from bankruptcy, scandal — but ‘faith has been shaken’ The trauma remains for survivors of sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. They…
by Sue Cox – August 2011 So it seems that the church is now upset at the suggestion that a priest who sexually abuses children, and who “confesses” his sins to a fellow priest, should not be allowed to rely upon the ancient, long guarded, sanctity of the confessional! I…
