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Uma papoila crescia, crescia

WORKSHOP ON SEXUALITY, CELIBACY AND BOUNDARY VIOLATIONS

By John Tharakan sdb
Hyderabad, Feb. 23. Bosco Psychological Services, New Delhi Province, celebrated its 10 years of service to the Province and the Church with a well attended 3 day workshop on Sexuality, Celibacy and Boundary Violations: Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender. The programme started on 18th February morning and ended on 20th evening. The resource persons were Dr. Tony Robinson, clinical psychologist and CEO and Dr. Gerardine Taylor, Clinical Director, of Encompass Australasia. Encompass is a residential treatment centre in Sydney, Australia for professionals, clergy, religious men and women who are struggling with sexual issues.
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65 participants from different congregations and dioceses from all over India,
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Topics dealt with at the workshop included: Sexual Abuse of Children, Professional Sexual Misconduct, Sexually Exploitative Clergy, Internet Pornography, Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender, and Implications for Formation of Clergy and Religious. Many issues that came up from the floor, including groups, were taken up for discussion.

During three days of intense discussions and sharing, the participants felt the enormity of the problem facing us today. They felt that more programmes to create awareness of issues around sexual boundary violations and the systemic dynamics that perpetuate the problem, and to develop skills to help victims and perpetrators, are very necessary and urgent.
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Participants expressed great satisfaction about the programme—the content as well as the organisation, and how useful it had been to them. They were especially touched by the compassion with which Tony Robinson and Gerardine Taylor presented the issue of boundary violations and very appreciative of their competence in dealing with the issue.

naar het hele artikel toegevoegd 14-9-08 bron

deliver us from evil

A former priest in the diocese of Kerry who pleaded guilty to 53 counts of sexual assault has been given a four-year prison sentence. John Brosnan carried out the offences against five members of the same family, aged between nine and 16, on dates between 1965 and 1973. The court heard that the family are sincere people who did not want to upset the Church.
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John Brosnan already served four years in prison after he was convicted in 1997 of abusing five children in the Kerry area in the early 1990s.
---> rest Kardinaal Claudio Hummes:

Bidden voor slachtoffers pedofiele priesters

VATICAANSTAD (RKnieuws.net) - In een interview met de Osservatore Romano dat zaterdag verscheen beveelt kardinaal Claudio Hummes, prefect van de Congregatie voor de clerus, gebedsbijeenbijeenkomsten aan voor de slachtoffers van pedofiele priesters.
Volgens de kardinaal zijn de gebedsbijeenkomsten nodig om de gepleegde misbruiken te herstellen voor God en om de slachtoffers te herstellen in hun waardigheid.Kardinaal Hummes wijst er op dat slechts een miniem deel van de priesters bij seksueel misbruik betrokken is.

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naar verzoening op het eiland te streven. Dat blijkt uit een boodschap die donderdag tegelijkertijd in Havana en Vaticaanstad is gepubliceerd, ’’Doe het goede, bevorder de waardigheid van de mens (en) verspreid gevoelens van begrip, mededogen en verzoening’’, schrijft de paus in zijn boodschap, die kardinaal-staatssecretaris

en son hôtel Dieu n'est pas maître

Op de bibelebonse berg
wonen bibelebonse mensen
en die bibelebonse mensen
hebben bibelebonse kinderen
en die bibelebonse kinderen
eten bibelebonse pap
met een bibelebonse lepel
uit een bibelebonse nap

Savez-vous qu'autrefois
y avait des gens là-bas?
Mais depuis l'grand éclair
il n'y en a pas

!

Je suis voyageur de rayons

Dors mon enfant ne pleure pas
Tu ne sais pas encore pourquoi

Un religieux reconnaît une cinquantaine d'agressions

Meer dan 50 keer zich vergrepen aan jongens en meiden tussen 4 -15 jaar tussen 1985-2000
doet de man zélf een beroep op een vriend. Hij doet zijn mond open en vraagt om aangifte te doen, waartoe hij zélf de moed niet heeft.

De verantwoordelijken binnen zijn Congregatie waren in ieder geval sinds 1998 op de hoogte.
In 2000 wordt A. van zijn taken ontheven

Anne-Cécile Juillet
Le Parisien , lundi 18 février 2008

Frère Pierre-Etienne, membre de la communauté des Béatitudes dans l'Aveyron, a reconnu avoir sexuellement agressé une cinquantaine d'enfants en quinze ans. Selon des courriers que nous nous sommes procurés, sa hiérarchie était au courant depuis 1998.

APRÈS plus de vingt ans de silence, Pierre-Etienne A., 57 ans, tente aujourd'hui de soulager sa conscience. En août 2007, cet ancien frère de la communauté des Béatitudes installée à Comps-la-Grand-Ville en Aveyron se confie à une amie. Il la prie d'aller le dénoncer auprès de la justice, parce qu'il n'en « a pas le courage ».

Le 4 février dernier, placé en garde à vue, l'ancien religieux affirme avoir, entre 1985 et 2000, procédé à des attouchements sexuels sur des enfants, garçons et filles, âgés de 5 à 14 ans. Selon plusieurs témoignages, auxquels nous avons eu accès, la hiérarchie de cette communauté aurait été informée des agissements de frère Pierre-Etienne au moins dès 1998. Sans jamais rien en dire à la justice. Le 5 février, une information judiciaire a été ouverte par le parquet de Rodez pour agressions sexuelles sur mineurs de 15 ans par personne ayant autorité à l'encontre de frère Pierre-Etienne. Parallèlement, une autre information judiciaire, contre X cette fois, est ouverte pour non-dénonciation de mauvais traitements ou atteintes sexuelles sur mineurs de 15 ans.

Une cinquantaine d'actes. Selon Pierre-Etienne A., ses victimes étaient « souvent endormies » lorsqu'il exécutait ses méfaits. Certaines, en revanche, « étaient tout à fait conscientes, et avaient manifesté leur désaccord ». La cinquantaine d'actes confessés ont eu lieu dans les divers établissements de la communauté où Pierre-Etienne A. a été successivement affecté aux quatre coins de la France. L'une de ses proies, la jeune P., aurait subi des attouchements pendant « environ trois ans ». Quelque temps plus tard, elle tente de se suicider. Les enquêteurs cherchent aujourd'hui à retrouver toutes les autres victimes. «

Ne pas se faire juger par les païens ».

Le 23 janvier dernier, un prêtre des Béatitudes, responsable d'une de ses maisons, adresse une lettre sans ambiguïté au parquet de Rodez : « J'ai reçu personnellement l'information de délits de pédophilie commis par M. Pierre-Etienne A., vers l'année 1998, en juillet-août », information qu'il tient de la bouche même des trois plus hauts dignitaires de la communauté de l'époque. Il poursuit : « L'information était plutôt une confidence et la crainte de voir l'affaire ébruitée et transmise à la justice, ccecis pouvant mettre à mal la communauté des Béatitudes de n'avoir pas pris assez tôt la mesure des torts commis. En effet, des plaintes étaient alors remontées jusqu'au Modérateur général (NDLR : le plus haut responsable) avec risque de plaintes en justice. »

Une crainte confirmée récemment par le frère Ephraïm, fondateur de la communauté. Dans un courrier adressé il y a un mois à l'ensemble des membres des Béatitudes, il explique son peu de foi dans la justice des hommes, et cite la Bible : « Lorsque vous avez un différend entre vous, comment osez-vous le faire juger par des païens et non par les saints ? »

Une plainte avait déjà été déposée, sans suite. En 2001, Pierre-Etienne A. fait l'objet de poursuites. Une plainte est déposée, puis une information judiciaire ouverte au tribunal d'Avranches (Manche). Le religieux n'est entendu que deux ans plus tard. Les juges d'Avranches ont finalement conclu en se déclarant territorialement incompétents et en estimant les faits prescrits.

Des demi-mesures d'éloignement. A la fin de l'année 2000, les responsables de l'abbaye de Bonnecombe (Aveyron) prennent des dispositions pour « encadrer » frère Pierre-Etienne et lui interdisent tout contact avec des enfants, quoique cette abbaye accueille beaucoup de jeunes. En 2005, Pierre-Etienne est « relevé de ses voeux religieux ». Pourtant, la communauté l'héberge toujours.

Anne-Cécile Juillet
Le Parisien , lundi 18 février 2008

norbertijner abt grenzeloos tov misbruiker

Cleric wrote letter of support for sex offender

By Seán McCárthaigh
A SENIOR cleric, who was forced to retire as head of a religious order in 1994 over his role as superior of the infamous paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth, has recently provided a character reference to another notorious sex offender facing a criminal prosecution.


Fr Kevin Smith, the former head of the Norbertine Order in Ireland, gave a letter of support to Simon McGinley — convicted of raping the 13-year-old girl at the centre of the “C” Case where she won the right to go to Britain for an abortion — for his appearance before Monaghan District Court on a drink driving charge last month.

The 77-year-old cleric retired as abbot of the Norbertines’ Irish headquarters at Holy Trinity Abbey, Kilnacrott, Co Cavan, in 1994 as a result of his role as the late Fr Smyth’s superior for 25 years. During the controversy, which led to the resignation of Albert Reynolds as taoiseach in 1994, Fr Smith was blamed for covering up his colleague’s sexual abuse of children by arranging to have him moved to institutions in Ireland, Britain and the US.

Fr Smyth died in the Curragh prison in 1997 while serving a 12-year prison sentence for multiple sex offences on boys and girls between 1958 and 1993.

Fr Smith is facing further criticism after it emerged he provided a character reference to McGinley, a Traveller and father of three who was jailed for 12 years by the Central Criminal Court in 1998 for the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

McGinley, 34, who lives in Monaghan town, was fined €200 and banned from driving for three years after being convicted of a drink-driving offence during his appearance before Monaghan District Court.

Fr Smith provided a character reference in support of McGinley, despite knowing the accused had a lengthy criminal record, including his conviction for the rape of the girl in the “C” case.

In the reference, it is understood he described himself as abbot at the Co Cavan abbey, the position from which he retired in 1994.

Fr Smith also provided a character reference to a female relative of McGinley last week when she appeared before the same court on a charge of obstructing gardaí.

Fr Smith declined to comment about the assistance he provided to McGinley and his official position at Kilnacrott Abbey to the Irish Examiner.

Abbot General of the Norbertine Order Thomas Handgrätinger, based in Rome, declined to comment on the priest’s position at the abbey when contacted by the Irish Examiner.

Click here for irishexaminer.com stories before this date

Nuns launch plans to fight trafficking of women

By UCA NEWS
Mangalore, India
National Catholic Reporter,
February 22, 2008

Superiors general of about 35 women’s congregations based in India have drafted a plan to fight trafficking of women and children through educating religious as well as cooperating across congregations and with church institutions.

The nuns, whose congregations have members in various Asian countries, met in early January in Mangalore, as a follow-up to a workshop on trafficking held in October 2007 in Rome. At the Rome meeting, about 30 nuns from 26 countries formed the International Network of Religious against Trafficking in Persons.

At the Mangalore meeting, the nuns agreed to collaborate across congregations to combat trafficking of women and children in India and other parts of Asia, Sr. Jyothi, superior general of the Bethany congregation, told UCA News.

Another Bethany nun, Sr. Lilitta, pointed out that 74 million South Asian women have been reported missing, with 20 million said to be working in Indian brothels. An estimated 25 percent of women trafficked to India are under 18 years old, according to the nun, who did her doctoral research on human trafficking. She urged women religious to “do whatever possible to curb this menace.”

The plan drafted at the meeting suggests religious attend workshops designed to “sensitize” and “activate” them. It also proposes an intercongregational network and joint projects in collaboration with individuals and various church institutions, including Caritas India, the local Catholic church’s social service organization. The projects would aim to prevent trafficking, rescue its victims and rehabilitate them.

Trafficking of people, especially women and children, occurs for diverse purposes including prostitution, servitude, illegal adoption, organ transplants, drug trafficking and beggary, Lilitta noted.

The problem is a sociopolitical issue, she contended, pointing out that of the 685 people Indian police arrested on trafficking charges in 2007, only 27 were prosecuted. The nun said most affected women and children are poor and easily taken advantage of, coming from the socially and economically backward classes.

According to Lilitta, India, the Philippines and Thailand together have around 1.3 million children in the sex trade.

The meeting on trafficking followed the four-day annual plenary of the women’s section of the Conference of Religious India. About 350 major superiors representing more than 90,000 women religious gathered in Mangalore for the assembly, which ended Jan. 1.

The plenary launched plans for a theology research institute to empower women religious and redress the gender disparity in religious studies. They appointed a seven-member committee to work out detailed plans for establishing the intercongregational institute to spur education, development and research among women religious.

The new center will “enable the women to empower themselves” through scientific and systematic research and study on the contributions of women in general and religious women in particular, explained Bethany Sr. Jyothi, a committee member.

At the annual meeting, several participants expressed concern over gender discrimination within the church. Some said women religious are treated as “just decorators,” reported Sr. Jyothi, who was also vice president of the meeting’s organizing committee.

Chavanod Sr. Evelyn Monteiro, a theologian, observed that one reason for male domination in the church has been women’s lack of competence in theology.
The idea for a theology center for training nuns began even before the plenary. Sr. Jyothi Fernandes, who directs Mater Dei theological institute in Old Goa, western India, wrote a position paper that was studied at regional and national levels prior to the plenary.

Fernandes, an Ursuline Franciscan nun, said several meetings were held at the regional level about the feasibility of such a center before proposing it in the general body.

Vrouwen in het ambt en crimen sollicitationes; Keesmannetjes

Waar ik -en zoals is gebleken met mij nog een paar deskundigen - nu zo benieuwd naar ben, is het canoniek rechterlijk antwoord op een paar ervaringen met vrouwen en het ambt en crimen sollicitationes En mannen natuurlijk. Gevallen

Case 1
- een priester is de vaste, verplichte, biechtvader en godsdienst-leraar van een groep jongeren in rkk residentiële zorg.

Daarbij blijkt het biechtgeheim niet meer te bestaan, maar, met anderen, ook met zorg belastte (dus ook toezicht, disciplinering alsmede het onderwijs) vrouwen gedeeld te worden.
Op grond van welke kerkrechterlijke wijding of regel is dit mogelijkerwijs bij dit Sacrament toegestaan?

Case 2
- een dame in een kerk ontdekt tijdens de zondagse Eucharistieviering bezwaar te hebben tegen de kleding, namelijk de kousen, van een aantal kerkgangers.
Zij gebiedt de priester de Mis te staken.

Die de viering inderdaad plat legt, om er pas weer mee door te gaan, nádat de door deze vrouw uit de kerk verwijderde kerkgangers, hernieuwd -en nu met gewisselde kousen - in de kerk plaats hebben genomen en hij het sein krijgt dat het hem weer toegestaan wordt door te gaan met die Eucharistie.

Zowel de betreffende priester als ook de betreffende vrouw, net als haar vrouwelijke medewerksters, -kloosterlingen in beide cases- hebben een kerkelijke wijding en opdracht ontvangen voor hun werk: het verlenen van zorg aan deze (jeugdige) kerkgangers, waarschijnlijk allen onder de 17 jaar.

Ik ben minder geinteresseerd in opmerkingen mbt. het pastorale aspect hiervan. (Ik betwijfel zelfs of er wel zo heel erg veel pastorale deskundige zullen zijn die -bij gebrek aan kennis - hierop een zinvol antwoord zouden kunnen geven)

Maar mocht er zo'n canoniek deskundige of theolo(o)g(e) denkend over de positie van vrouwen in die Kerk en ambten hier eens langs komen en toch eens niets te doen hebben:
ik houd mij in ieder geval aanbevolen voor informatie!

Ik vrees nl. dat in het denken over vrouwen-in-die-(wereld!)-kerk een aantal aspecten weleens over het hoofd zouden kunnen worden gezien.
En dat discussies zoals die gevoerd wordt over die vrouwen in die (wereld)kerk en het ambt, net als crimen sollicitationes nogal wel eens verbonden zouden kunnen zijn met het -wereldwijd - door deskundigen erkende achterblijven van de benodigde duidelijkheid over (seksueel) misbruik gepleegd, óók door vrouwen, tegen meisjes én jongens kinderen in die RKK zorg.

Wanneer beide sexen dan kennelijk tóch gelijkwaardig zouden moeten zijn, laten we dan óók ruimhartig zijn in de erkenning van het bestaan van de vrouwelijke sexualteit.

Wie weet kan dan met de erkenning dat óverige moeders géén maagd bleven, ook het RKK beeld over die unieke Moeder Maagd weer gerestaureerd worden.
En wie weet, gooien we dan het Kind niet met het water weg.

Het vinden van dergelijke door mij gezochte informatie lijkt mij bovendien wellicht een betere bezigheid dan - in strijd met de kerkleer en simpel burger- laat staan academisch- fatsoen - het plegen van plagiaat door een kennelijk eerwaarde en gestrenge op een RK nieuwssite en in een nederlandse krant door een Opus Dei meester in het canoniek Recht?

Of viel ook dit wellicht ook onder wat Richard Sipe herkende als: ik lieg alleen wanneer het nodig is?
(ter info: De betrokkene zelf wist zich, op mijn verbijsterde vragen - o naiviteit ik ken je naam! - van de paus geen kwaad, want "wie in nederland kent nu toch zijn bron"?
Maar was zo vroom mij, behalve een gesprek (!) ook aan te bieden voor mij te zullen bidden.)

foto: Oscar van Alphen

22-03-08: stuk tekst en illustraties verwijderd.

More sex abuse allegations against Spokane Diocese boys' ranch

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Three former residents of a boys' ranch operated by the Spokane Catholic Diocese have filed suit, alleging they were physically and sexually abused by priests and a volunteer.
In the lawsuit filed Friday in Spokane County Superior Court, the men accuse Morning Star Boys Ranch of negligent supervision and knowingly allowing employees to sexually abuse residents.
A former Morning Star director, the Rev. Joseph Weitensteiner, is among three defendants named in the suit, which seeks unspecified damages. Weitensteiner resigned in 2006. He has denied abusing ranch residents.

The plaintiffs are 39, 48 and 55. They allege the abuse happened in the 1960s, '70s and '80s at the hands of Weitensteiner, the Rev. Patrick O'Donnell and an unidentified volunteer employee.
Morning Star spokeswoman Jenn Kantz said the ranch had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment on specific allegations. She said the ranch is a safe and therapeutic place today. The ranch south of Spokane has served more than 1,300 boys with behavioral problems over the past 50 years.

The lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal filings that began in August 2005, alleging abuse at the ranch by Weitensteiner, O'Donnell and other staff members. Thirteen former residents previously sued the ranch over claims of abuse.

In depositions, O'Donnell has acknowledged sexually molesting dozens of boys over three decades. He was named in 66 of the 176 bankruptcy court claims alleging sexual abuse by priests in the Spokane Diocese, more than any other single priest. Last year, the diocese agreed to pay $48 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse.

A civil lawsuit against O'Donnell by more than two dozen of his accusers was stayed during the three-year bankruptcy proceeding. The trial could be scheduled later this year.

Legion of Christ Founder leaves a flawed legacy

fundraising, Maciel died a victim of false accusations, a conspiracy that duped Pope Benedict.

To bedrock followers, Nuestro Padre -- Our Father -- as they refer to Maciel, was a saint.

He nominated his mother for canonization (to date, without success). In 1992, he told a Legionary priest at a canonization ceremony in Rome: “Wait 30 years before you begin my process” for sainthood.

Between these poles -- a falsely-accused saint, or predator dripping hubris -- roamed a double life, shaped by wealth and propaganda.

Born in 1920 into a prominent family with four uncles as bishops, Maciel was expelled from two seminaries for reasons that have never been explained.

He became a priest only when one of his uncles (not Guizar, the future saint) ordained him after private studies. Recruiting boys in the late 1940s from families whose parents remembered the religious persecution, and saw the priesthood as a path to distinction, Maciel secured scholarships for his seminarians in Spain from the Franco government. “We were like an army, the army of Jesus Christ,” recalled Alejandro Espinosa, the author of a searing memoir, El Legionario, a best-seller in Mexico.

By the 1950s Maciel had a seminary in Rome. Cultivating wealthy supporters, he also built Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Rome, honoring Mexico’s patron saint. But in 1956 Pope Pius XII removed him as the Legion’s director when Maciel was hospitalized for morphine addiction.

Seminarians who had taken vows never to speak ill of Maciel defended him in a Vatican investigation into his secret life. Says Juan Vaca, now a psychology professor in Long Island, N.Y.: “I lied.” From age 12 to 24, Vaca, in what he termed a twisted psychosexual relationship with Maciel, “loved the figure of the founder, the priest … not the predator.”

Another victim, Jose Barba, now a college professor in Mexico City said: “We all lied.” Barba earned a doctorate in Latin American studies at Harvard after leaving the Legion in 1962. “I said simply that he was a saint … as I had been taught.”

In the interregnum between Pius XII’s death and the election of Pope John XXIII, Cardinal Clemente Micara, the vicar of Rome, re-instated Maciel, although under Vatican rules he lacked the authority to do so.

Defended by his victims, Maciel had a protective wall in the secret vows the boys took never to criticize any superior. A Legion mantra, “lost vocation, sure damnation” sent certain of his victims into therapy in later life. The early victims reconnected with one another slowly, over many years.

Maciel went on to build seminaries, prep schools and several universities in Mexico, Spain, Chile, Italy and the United States. Students were taught that Nuestro Padre was a living saint, chosen by God to lead a rejuvenation of the church. Each year on March 20 children acted in skits honoring his life.

In 1996, Hartford Courant reporter Gerald Renner wrote a story on the Legion’s purchase of the National Catholic Register newspaper, and found not a single reference to Maciel in press reports. The Legion’s U.S. headquarters had been in Orange, Conn., for 30 years. Officials shunned Renner. Maciel had orchestrated information about his life and organization via Legion schools, newsletters, and, later, Web sites. After Renner’s article, several ex-seminarians called him, complaining of dictatorial tactics that drove them out of the Legion.

By then, Arturo Jurado, Mexican by birth, a teacher at the U.S. Defense Languages Institute in Monterrey, Calif., had contacted this writer after reading my 1992 book Lead Us Not Into Temptation, an investigation of the clerical sex abuse scandal. Claiming that Maciel had repeatedly abused him as a seminarian in Rome, Jurado put me in touch with seven other men who gave sworn statements echoing his. Juan Vaca included a detailed letter about Maciel he had sent to Pope John Paul II in 1989.

Until then, I had never heard of Maciel. One summer day in 1996 a call came from Gerald Renner, wondering if I knew anything about the Legionaries. Soon after, the Courant hired me as a freelance writer for a joint assignment with Renner.

We had eight men on the record with in-depth accounts of Maciel and well-corroborated information on a ninth victim, who had died. These dignified professionals included a Spanish priest, Felix Alarcon, serving in Florida.

When Renner contacted the Legion to interview Maciel, a Washington law firm, Kirkland and Ellis, responded with statements from Legion supporters purporting to show Maciel’s innocence. The Legion alleged a “conspiracy” by the accusers, but lacked serious proof. Despite legal threats, the Courant published a story on Feb. 23, 1997. The report drew immediate attacks from Legion supporters and a letter of self-defense from Maciel.

The Vatican was silent in response to interview requests. In fall 1998, Jurado and Barba traveled to Rome and filed the canon law case. For several years, it seemed the case was doomed to gather dust.

In 2002, The Boston Globe’s investigation of Cardinal Bernard Law for sheltering abusive priests ignited a chain reaction of media reports in the United States and other countries.

In April 2002, John Paul summoned American cardinals to a special meeting about the crisis.
In November 2004, about the same time an ailing John Paul celebrated Maciel’s career in a ceremony, Ratzinger, perhaps realizing the Maciel case would haunt whoever the next pope might be, ordered Msgr. Charles Scicluna, Promoter of Justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to reopen the case against the Legion founder.

It is unclear how the order, which claims 700 priests and 2,500 seminarians, will move forward after Maciel’s death, since its spirituality is rooted in Maciel's life and words, a life now known to be deeply conflicted.

The Legion never admitted Maciel’s guilt. Like Christ before Pilate, runs the order’s story line, Maciel refused to defend himself. After the 2006 punishment, he accepted his “new cross” with “tranquility of conscience.”

Until 2006, the Legion promoted his outright innocence on its Web site with testimonials by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, writer George Weigel, former drug czar William Bennett, Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon, Catholic League president William Donahue, among others, alongside the order’s rebuttal of the victims and denunciations of Renner and me.

After the 2006 decision, those materials disappeared from the Web site. History was erased. The Web site still contains numerous articles about Maciel’s achievements. His history is their history, and can’t all be airbrushed.

The Legion cultivates celebrities. Former CNN religion reporter Delia Gallagher joined Bennett in speaking at the Legion’s fall 2007 fundraiser. Jeb Bush spoke at the Legion’s summer 2007 conference in Atlanta.

Benedict has ordered the Legion to stop requiring the secret vows. NCR has learned that witnesses have given Scicluna new material on Legion inner workings.

A new set of Legion lawyers recently filed suit in Alexandria, Va., against a http://www.regainnetwork.org/ a Web site run by ex-Legionaries, accusing them of conspiracy to damage the Legion’s ministry, essentially the same charge leveled against Maciel’s sex abuse victims, only now in an expensive legal arena.

The Legion demanded the return from Regain of its constitutions, which include the now-invalidated secret vows that Maciel had once dictated and that were posted anonymously on Regain’s discussion board. The lawsuit has entered the discovery phase, demanding names of those who posted information and the computer files of Regain founder Paul Lennon.

Maciel promoted a militant spirituality to save the church from a corrupt world and used the secret vows to shield his double life. The Legion is now waging a legal battle to keep that shield in place.

Jason Berry is coauthor, with Gerald Renner, of Vows of Silence, a book about Maciel. He has directed a forthcoming documentary film, based on the book.

Veronica's zweetdoek; inkoppertjesdonderdag

Kathe Kollwitz

gejat:

alle tongen en talen, tene geslacht moet het ander herhalen

foto: Gutman

yo te nombre libertad, creando conciencia
solo tengo mis ojos y mi mente como herramienta para trabajar

(Frieda, Mexico)

(bron)

Unicef ------------>> en

zoete lieve Gerritje

kom mee naar buiten, allemaal:

om Gods wil te volbrengen zou ik de hele wereld doortrekken
Een klein hoekje van de aarde mag ons niet vasthouden.
Ik zelf wens niet meer te horen dat ik een franse ben
Ik ben italiaanse, engelse, duitse. spaanse, amerikaanse, afrikaanse, indische.
Ik ben van alle landen waar zielen te redden zijn"

Maria Eupfrasia Pelletier,
stichteres van de Zusters van onze Lieve Vrouw van Liefde van de Goede Herder

overal... overal......

frankrijk broeder pakt 50 kinderen 5-14 jaar

Franse broeder misbruikte vijftigtal kinderen
Geplaatst door Theo Borgermans
woensdag 13 februari 2008 om 15:55u


PARIJS (RKnieuws.net) - In Frankrijk is een onderzoek geopend tegen een 57-jarige broeder wegens seksuele agressie op een vijftigtal kinderen tussen 5 en 14 jaar in de periode 1985-2000.
De geestelijke, die inmiddels dispensatie heeft gekregen van zijn religieuze geloften, heeft de feiten bekend. Hij is ter beschikking gesteld van het gerecht. Experts zullen nagaan welke schade de slachtoffers hebben geleden. (tb)

We the Parliament respectfully request

We say sorry

the Bringing Them Home Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

Sorry, profoundly put

ADAM GARTRELL
February 13, 2008 12:00am
FEDERAL Parliament will apologise for the "profound grief, suffering and loss" inflicted on the stolen generations and will vow to never let it happen again.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday tabled in Parliament the text of the national apology, which he will formally deliver today.

The 344-word apology, based on extensive consultation with indigenous groups, honours Australia's Aborigines, "the oldest continuing cultures in human history", and uses the word sorry three times.

"We reflect on their past mistreatment," the apology says.
"We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations, this blemished chapter in our nation's history."
Aboriginal groups have welcomed the content of the long-awaited apology, with Reconciliation Australia describing it as extremely moving.

The former Howard government, which lost last year's election, refused to issue a formal apology claiming it would leave the Commonwealth liable to a flood of compensation claims.
Hundreds of indigenous Australians have descended on Canberra to witness the historic apology, which comes more than a decade after the Bringing Them Home report.

That report documented the stories of some of the tens of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by governments between 1910 and the early 1970s.

The Parliament will apologise for "the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians".

The Opposition, which was given the text about two hours before Mr Rudd tabled it, will support the apology, which says a new page in Australia's history can now be written.
Reconciliation Australia co-chair Mark Leibler said the text was "beautifully crafted" and extremely moving.

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation national director Gary Highland said the apology had a sincerity and a genuineness which the public will respond to warmly.

"I really hope that all Australians will take the time to listen to what's being said tomorrow, and reflect on all elements of Australian history, good and bad," he said.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma said the apology would directly benefit members of the stolen generations by validating their experiences.

"It is not about black armbands and guilt," he said.
"It is about inclusion and learning from the past.
"And, ultimately, it is about providing space in the telling of our national story for the stolen generations."


Much more than a simple gesture
Fiona Stanley February 05, 2008
SOME people think that saying sorry is merely a gesture. The evidence shows it is in fact much more than that. I believe that forced removal from family or land is one of the most important factors leading to the modern indigenous circumstance.

Our institute's researchers interviewed more than 2100 carers of 5300 Aboriginal children across the whole state in the early 2000s. More than 40 per cent of Aboriginal children in Western Australia are living in households today where at least one carer had been affected by forced separation from their natural family or forced relocation from traditional country or homeland. These are substantial proportions for any population and while we hear of individual stories of some people surviving these traumas with apparently little harm, and some having successful educational experiences, the impact, as assessed in our research, has on the whole been grim and has moved across generations.

Carers who had been forcibly separated from their natural families were more likely to have been arrested or charged with an offence, abused alcohol or gambled to the point where it caused problems in the household, and to have used mental health services. Just as damning, children whose parents had been forcibly separated from their natural family by a mission, government or welfare agency were over twice as likely to have clinically significant emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Our scientific findings establish with firm evidence the veracity of the experience that Aboriginal people so eloquently told us in their individual stories from the Bringing Them Home Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

Both of these kinds of data provide direct evidence of the impact of forced removal on the present poor health and mental health status of many Aboriginal people. Many reports suggest that the forcible removal of children from family and land was a human rights breach of enormous proportions and recommends strongly that restorative justice and healing be implemented.
The lack of implementation of these recommendations should be a source of anger and indignation. That they were not acted upon perpetuates a cycle of damage and dissipates focus and energy needed for the future.

More globally, the Canadians have apologised for the Residential School program: a similar attempt to take away culture, language and family from their indigenous populations. As part of the reparation, 10 years ago they also established an Aboriginal Healing Foundation to fund a range of projects which enabled healing, cultural strengthening and other activities to acknowledge the value of the First Nations people of Canada. The results in terms of falling suicide rates and other improved outcomes have just been published.

If people realise that there are reasons for their problems that can be addressed, then they have hope enough to live and make a go of their lives. If no one appears to understand that these traumas were real and powerful influences on health and wellbeing, then why not just drown your sorrows in alcohol and try to forget?

I strongly suggest that we establish a Healing Foundation immediately and monitor its effects.

The Bringing them Home Report of 1997 was strong about an apology for this aspect of our history. The report realised the power and importance of indigenous healing, along with preventive and primary mental health and wellbeing services. Such services also include parenting and family wellbeing programs, acknowledging that not having had parents at crucial stages of child and youth development meant that many Aboriginal parents were not competent or confident when they became parents themselves. Prisoner services to treat and rehabilitate those with mental illness and substance abuse were also recommended.

Perhaps the hope in avoiding an apology is the hope that saying "get over it" would be a practical solution for restorative justice, at home and in the eyes of world. However, the real harm and ongoing consequences of past policies and practices that we have documented call for reparation. Saying sorry is the starting point in creating a restorative vision for all Australians. We need to get on with saying sorry now.

Fiona Stanley is chairwoman of the Australian Research Alliance for Children, a director at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and a professor of the school of pediatrics and child health at the University of Western Australia.

En alweer: Ierse revolutie!

Tadaaaaaaaaaaaa
En alweer wordt er geschiedenis gemaakt daar in Ierland.
En is er heel goed nieuws.
Connell heeft zijn claim voor het Hooggerechtshof ingetrokken!

Slachtoffers, Ierland, de Staat en die Diarmuid Martin hebben het alweer voor elkaar!!
En dat is de volgende historische stap in dat proces daar van genoeg is genoeg!!
Zelfs al zou je juridisch door hebben kunnen gaan!
Het is over, afgelopen en genoeg geweest: STOP!

En die demonstratie in een ruime week tijd.
Dat is heel goed nieuws, heel veel beter dan welke juridische uitspraak ooit had kunnen zijn.
Het is over, het is genoeg geweest en nu moet het maar eens afgelopen zijn, stoppen!

Soms gebeuren er heel wat meer ingrijpende en revolutionaire stappen in Europa dan die hollandse media door hebben.
Dit was er -alweer - zo een!
Gezien het belang van Ierland in de hele ontwikkelingen, in zowel het residentieel als het diosescaan misbruik en de cover-up daarvan van de RKK, maar ook de noodzaak en de mogelijkheden om daaraan een eind te maken in scheiding van Staat en Kerk ten gunste van de slachtoffers, en op wereldniveau!

De onderzoekscommissie kan door met haar werk. En daar zal nog zat op aan te merken zijn.
Maar voor nu:

Dag Kardinaal. U hoort bij het verleden waarmee wordt afgerekend, binnen de grenzen die een Staat en haar burgers daartoe hebben
Het is meer dan welletjes geweest!
En daar kan die kerk zich maar beter naar voegen, daar hadden die slachtoffers, en zoveel geluiden zo open uit die samenleving in die ruime week groot gelijk in!

Diarmuid Martin wist dat al. En koos. Al een paar jaar geleden.

Het was een meer dan schandalig oponthoud, maar de volgende stap kan gezet.
Dank u wel, kardinaal.
En dat oponthoud? Heeft door wat er getoond wordt veel duidelijk gemaakt.

Mahony kon het haast 5 jaar lang proberen tot hij juridisch bakzeil moest halen, en trachtte in een schikking de openheid die de Grand Jury niet voor elkaar kreeg maar zondermeer zou volgen in de rechtszaken, af te kopen.
In Ierland zien belastingbetalers hun vroegere kardinaal niet meer als een volslagen idioot. Net zo min als in Australie


Daar hebben ze door voor welke erfenis zij, net als de directe slachtoffers zelf, betalen.

't Is wel welletjes!
Dit is een voor morgen en overmorgen belangrijker demonstratie.

Bij zo'n wereldkerk speelt zich tenslotte niet alles af achter het toneel van een plaatselijke parochie.
En wanneer iemand tegen je zegt: break a leg, kun je maar beter heel goed uitkijken. Je weet, zeker in Rome, tenslotte maar nooit wie die soufleur is.

Terug aan het werk dus.

Thanks, Andrew. Again Ubuntu!

Dag kardinaal. Het ga u goed.
Connell withdraws legal challenge

The former Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, has withdrawn his bid to stop the commission investigating clerical sexual abuse in Dublin from examining certain diocesan files.

Last month, Cardinal Connell went to the High Court to get an injunction against the commission.
The injunction restrained the commission from examining specific documents, which had already been handed over by Cardinal Connell’s successor, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Cardinal Connell insisted that the documents were legally privileged or that he had a duty of confidentiality in relation to them. However today, the case was struck out after senior counsel for the cardinal said that he was withdrawing his application.

The move was welcomed by charity, One in Four, which provides support to men and women who have experienced sexual abuse.

“We have continually called upon the cardinal to withdraw his application to the High Court, seeking to claim privilege over documents vital to the work of the commission. We are relieved that the work of the commission can now continue unhindered by legal wrangling”, said Deirdre Fitzpatrick of One in Four.

She said that the news would bring relief to the many victims of clerical abuse who have already given evidence.

“Many of these victims have waited decades for the truth to emerge with regard to the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese by church and state authorities.
The commission can now continue its vital work in exposing the truth”, Ms Fitzpatrick added.

......

Appearing in court on February 11, a lawyer representing Cardinal
Connell announced that he was withdrawing his appeal for the High Court to
stop release of the documents. On January 31 the cardinal had won a
temporary court order preventing the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of
Investigation, headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy, from examining the documents.

Cardinal Connell had earlier told friends that he was prepared
to go to jail if necessary in order to protect the confidentiality of some
documents, explaining that he was defending the rights of both archdiocesan
advisers and victims of sexual abuse.
The cardinal's insistence on that point had put him on a collision course with Archbishop Martin, who had already agreed to hand over the documents
to the commission, waiving confidentiality claims.

Staat en Kerk. Connell en Diarmuid Martin, en een Paus. Nog wat verdere vragen in Ierland

Zo'n week voor de Australische overheid formeel en met veel tam-tam en felle debatten met de belastingbetaler haar excuus aanbiedt voor de historische criminele realiteit ten opzichte van de aboriginal kinderen, de stolen generations: Sorry!

Vragen nu van een N. Ierse priester over die mestvaalt van de Rooms Katholieke Kerk

Want ook de Britse regering heeft inmiddels haar exuses al moet maken naar Australiers.
Anderen, vroegere Britse kinderen.
Boefjes, wezen, tot wees verklaarde kinderen van ongehuwde moeders, zorgkinderen.

In eigen land ongewenst, ze kwamen slecht uit: in Australie hard nodig.
Pragmatisch opgelost in koehandel.

Export kinderen.
Bestolen en gestolen kinderen.

Terwijl tegelijkertijd na de regeringsexcuses en de regelingen in Canada daar de eisen naar informatie over de begraafplaatsen en de lijken die verdwenen steeds duidelijker en harder worden.
Ook da's voor Ierland niet nieuw, de onderzoeken startte mede door verdoezelde anonieme graven uit wasserijen. Magdalena's, die Conell zo slecht uitkwamen.

Zorg-ontvangers, slachtoffers en hun kinderen die hun mond begonnen open te doen. Geschiedenis schreven in Ierse revolutie.

En kardinalen. Die het nog steeds niet door wensen te hebben.
En die paus?
Sorry!

Alsof dat nog mogelijk is.

Het kost slechts mensenlevens. En geld.
En dus nog meer mensenlevens.

It's hard to look away from the spectacle of two bishops head-butting one another, metaphorically speaking, but we should.

In the Dublin High Court on Monday, Cardinal Desmond Connell sought an order preventing the Archdiocese Commission of Investigation from examining a dossier of more than 5,000 documents relating to alleged instances of child abuse by clergy between 1975 and 2004.

The case was adjourned for a week.

The documents are already in possession of the commission, handed over last December by Dr Connell's successor, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. The question is whether the commission will be able to rely on the documents in drawing its conclusions.

The Irish Government set up the commission in 2006 after complaints came to light against more than 100 priests.

The commission is not investigating the complaints, but examining the way a sample of 46 complaints was handled when they came to the notice of the diocesan authorities.

Dr Connell was Archbishop of Dublin from 1988 to 2004.
The dossier includes letters between Dr Connell and legal advisers concerning insurance cover and legal liability in respect of a number of individual cases.
Dr Connell claims that these are covered by lawyer-client confidentiality.The commission will argue that the client was the archdiocese, not Dr Connell personally, and that Dr Martin was therefore within his rights, and acted properly, in handing the documents over.

Deirdre Fitzpatrick of One in Four, a support group for victims of sexual abuse, posed the question on many minds: "What exactly is the Cardinal determined to hide?"

The case has a number of sharp angles from the media's point of view.

The victims' search for truth and solace from the Church which betrayed them. The clash between Church - or one element of the Church - and State.

Most of all, the paradigm picture of the traditionalist prelate in pomp and purple at odds with the modern administrator in neat semi-civvies.

But the question looming over all others concerns, not the conflicting
mind-sets of the two prelates, but how it can be that, after
two decades of revelation about the treatment of children in the care of the
Catholic Church, there is still need for complex and expensive legal action to
drag evidence into the light?

Speaking in Dublin on Monday night, the Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Sean Brady, said: "Truth is not served by polemics on any side."
He added that he "regretted all distractions in the pursuit of truth where clerical child sex abuse was concerned."

It might be wondered why, if that is his approach, he hasn't urged dioceses across Ireland to throw open their archives to State agencies and
victims' representatives, obviating altogether the need for distractions such as commissions and court action.

Since he is the Primate of All Ireland, such a call would apply to dioceses in the North as well as the South.

Why is it, too, that the question is never posed of a State-funded commission to investigate allegations of clerical child sex abuse on this side of the border?
There is no reason to suppose that the incidence here has been significantly different from down South.

Here's a few questions from the diocese of Derry which it might be appropriate for a commission to probe, in the absence of voluntary disclosure.

Which Church officials organised, with the assent of which State agencies, the export in the 1940s, '50s and '60s of scores of children placed in the care of the Church in the Derry diocese to the other side of the world?

Upon arrival in Australia, many of the snatched children were given new names and told they had no families. Some were brutalised and sexually exploited in 'homes' and work-camps run by the mainly-Irish Christian Brothers.
A few were worked literally to death.

How were these children selected and processed?

What passports or papers did they travel on?

What was the Stormont Department of Education's understanding of the reason for the disappearance of those who had been attending school?

Who were the Australian immigration authorities given to believe these children were?
Perhaps the unionist regime of the time had so little problem with small
Taigs disappearing that it just paid no attention to it.

In Australia today, there are people with children and grandchildren
spiritually desolate from not knowing from where and whom they came.

The information they crave for peace of mind and soul is, must be, held in diocesan archives. Will Dr Brady call for these archives to be opened up and light let in?

The court clash between Drs Connell and Martin will be fascinating.

But the profound conflict is not between the attitudes of past and present archbishops, but, still, between the need for truth and the determination
of powerful interests to keep the truth hidden.

een kwart van de ierse priester achter de liegende en levensgevaarlijk gebleken kardinaal Conell

Only 1 in 4 priests agree with cardinal

By Caroline O’Doherty

11 February 2008

Only a quarter of parish priests in Cardinal Desmond Connell’s diocese support him in his High Court battle to keep secret files on clerical child sex abuse under wraps.

A survey by Newstalk found that a mere 25% openly supported the cardinal’s stance while 45% openly opposed him, with the remaining 30% unable to make up their minds.

When asked to choose between Cardinal Connell and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, one of the cardinal’s strongest critics in the controversy, just 20% plumped for Connell while 42% backed Martin.

Again a sizeable proportion, 38%, said they would not take sides, but there were few undecided when the priests were asked if they thought the Catholic Church had been damaged by the affair — 74% said it had, 20% said no and just 6% had no opinion.

Half of the diocese’s 200 parish priests took part in the survey, the results of which are revealed as the issue returns to the High Court this morning where Cardinal Connell is challenging the commission’s investigation of the diocese’s handling of complaints of child abuse against clergy.

Last week he secured a temporary injunction prohibiting the commission from examining 5,586 files in its possession pending a full hearing of the opposing arguments. The matter comes back before the court today but the case could be adjourned further.

The cardinal says the information in the files was given under guarantee of secrecy and includes accounts from victims and unproved allegations against priests.

The files were provided to the commission by Archbishop Martin as part of the hand-over of many thousands of documents agreed by the diocese when the Government established the investigation.

Abuse survivor and victims’ campaigner Marie Collins said yesterday there was no suggestion that the commission would disclose any information about a victim who sought to keep their identity secret, or endanger any priest about whom unfounded allegations were made.

“He [Cardinal Connell] trusted his own lawyers with whatever it is he is worried about. Why can he not trust an independent and fully professional commission with the same information?” she said.

“No names were ever published by the Ferns inquiry and no names will be published by the commission here, so the suggestion that this is to protect victims is not really as solid as it seems.”

Priests questioned in the survey were less forthcoming about the views of their parishioners, with 77% saying they did not know who the parishioners backed.

Levensgevaarlijke Ierse kardinaal gokt op plekje bij Bernard Law tbv. de Ierse belastingbetalers

Waar Diarmuid Martin, aartbisschop van Dublin, en diens optreden zo belangrijk was in het opschonen van die Ierse mestvaalt die in staatonderzoek is gebleken rond de tehuizen en het diocesaan misbruik door priesters, wat startte met het Fernsonderzoek , een optreden dat ondanks de catastrofale realiteit van de omvang van de criminaliteit die was bedreven toch kon leiden tot hoop op dat er afgerekend kon worden met het verleden,is er nu bij de volgende noodzakelijk stappen kardinal Desmond Connell. Dr. Martin's voorganger, die de kardinale-Mahony truc nog eens uitprobeert.

Een juridisch vechten om nog steeds geen inzicht te hoeven geven in die mestvaalt.
Connell die de toezeggingen van Diarmuid Martin legaal onderuit probeert te halen.

Alsof die legale argumenten er in die stinkende hoop smerigheid eigenlijk nog iets toe doen.
Natuurlijk zijn legale argumenten belangrijk.
Maar een juridische strijd kan ook het perveteren in de eerder al zo bekende diepe minachting van wetgeving beteken.

Die kardinaal, die het nog flikt te proberen dat proces van definitief afrekenen met het misbruikverleden tegen te houden, is inmiddels al levensgevaarlijk gebleken.
Die kardinaal is, gezien de consequenties voor Ierland, staatsgevaarlijk.

Maar zo'n kardinaal is dat zeker niet alleen voor Ierland!

Het wordt nog een spannende week in Ierland.
Ten koste van heel veel mensen.
Slachtoffers van dit soort figuren!
Het nieuws van Connell komt hen bijzonder ongelegen.

Maar wie weet heeft Bernard Law nog wel een plek voor hem, in Rome. Om rond te gaan met de kardinale collectebak ten behoeve van de Ierse belastingbetalers.

Irish prelates clash on release of abuse documents
Dublin, Feb. 1, 2008 (CWNews.com) - In a rare legal clash between Catholic prelates, the former Archbishop of Dublin has gone to court to prevent his successor from releasing documents pertaining to Church treatment of sexual abuse by clergy.

Cardinal Desmond Connell, the retired archbishop, has persuaded the High Court to issue an injunction, halting the release of some 5,000 documents. His successor, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, had indicated that he was willing to hand over the documents to an investigation.

Ieren willen terugtreden kardinaal Dublin
Geplaatst door onze redactie op dinsdag 16 april 2002
BRUSSEL (KerkNet/RadVat) - Een meerderheid van de Ieren wil volgens Radio Vaticaan dat de Ierse kardinaal van Dublin, Desmond O’Connell, terugtreedt......

Iers onderzoek komt ongelegen voor kardinaal Desmond Connell
Geplaatst door onze redactie op vrijdag 25 oktober 2002

BRUSSEL (KerkNet/BBC) – Van de week maakte de Ierse regering bekend dat een onderzoek wordt ingesteld naar eventueel seksueel misbruik door geestelijken in het bisdom Ferns.

Het nieuws komt bijzonder ongelegen.

Vorige maand nog won de controversiële film ‘The Magdalena Sisters’ van de Schot Peter Mullan de Gouden Leeuw van het filmfestival van Venetië.

De prent vertelt het verhaal van vier zusjes, die in de jaren ’60 van de vorige in het Ierse opvoedingsgesticht van het Magadalenaklooster terechtkomen, er misbruikt en slachtoffer van geweld worden.

Eerder al lag ook kardinaal Desmond Connell onder vuur, nadat een televisiedocumentaire vraagtekens plaatste bij de manier waarop de Ierse katholieke Kerk, en in het bijzonder het bisdom Dublin, in het verleden met seksueel misbruik waren omgegaan.

...Kardinaal Connell van zijn kant herhaalde dat de Ierse katholieke Kerk alles in het werk zal stellen om bij te dragen tot het onderzoek, en wees er op dat de Ierse Kerk eerder ook al een onderzoek gestart was.

How truth got lost between canon and civil law
DUBLIN, IRELAND
IRISH INDEPENDENT
By Dearbhail McDonald, Legal Editor

Six years ago, anger at the Catholic Church's handling of clerical sex abuse reached a zenith when a damning documentary, 'Cardinal Secrets', was screened.

'Cardinal Secrets', which followed swiftly on the heels of 'Suing the Pope' -- an expose of sickening abuse in the Diocese of Ferns -- chronicled how priests in the Dublin diocese were granted a virtual licence to abuse children even after Church authorities received complaints from parents.

The scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world to its foundations broke in Dublin with an almighty vengeance.

The public, incensed by the scandal in Ferns [see the Ferns Report], clamoured for the resignation of Archbishop Desmond Connell, whose tenure was devastated by revelations of paedophiles among his clergy.

The scale of the problem in the country's largest diocese, where 450 legal actions had been initiated against clerics, was staggering. .......rest artikel

Monday, 4 February 2008
Cardinal Seán Brady has said the Irish bishops are united and determined to facilitate the establishment of the truth about paedophile priests.
The primate also said Pope Benedict had told them that justice must be ensured for everybody involved.

The intervention is being interpreted as providing comfort for both Cardinal Desmond Connell and his successor Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in their dispute over the Archbishops 'tell-all' policy at the Dublin Child Abuse Commission.

Earlier Dr Martin expressed surprise at Cardinal Desmond Connell's court action against the Dublin Child Abuse Commission.
Dr Martin said nothing had changed from his point of view and he had set out to ensure the church would get the truth out well and that it would protect children.
He also said he had no reason to believe Rome was not supporting him in waiving privilege over diocesan documents that he had given the commission.
Today the High Court postponed the challenge filed by Cardinal Desmond Connell to stop church documents from being examined.
The case will come up for mention again next Monday, but it is not known when a full hearing will take place.
......
Cardinal Connell claims he is entitled to assert legal privilege over the files. They contain legal advice that he requested while handling child abuse allegations when he was Archbishop between 1988 and 2004.
Shane Murphy, Counsel for the Cardinal's successor Archbishop Diarmund Martin, told the judge he was reserving his right to join the action as a Notice Party.
Counsel for Cardinal Connell, Roderick Horan, said he has no objection to the Archbishop's lawyers reviewing the documents in the case to facilitate their decision-making.

Make no mistake, the repercussions are serious
By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Saturday February 02 2008
........
Bishop Walsh was an ideal choice to calm the turbulent ecclesiastical storm. A lawyer by training, he was the prelate who piloted the diocese of Ferns through its painful Commission of Inquiry into the horrendous level of clerical child sexual abuse after the resignation in April 2002 of Bishop Comiskey.

But Bishop Walsh warned that even when churchmen go to lawyers, it is a minefield. Rome is silently watching the outcome of this landmark action, which will profoundly affect the reputations of the cardinal and the archbishop -- along with the Irish Church's standing with both the State and a critical-minded public.

Questions And Answers: Q1: Who is correct, the Archbishop or the Cardinal?
One News: Joe Little, Religious & Social Affairs Correspondent, reports that the High Court has adjourned Cardinal Desmond Connell's challenge for one week
News At One: Fr Martin Dolan, Curate, Dublin's Francis Street, criticises Cardinal Connell's court move and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's muted response


Abuse files at centre of 2003 row
Cardinal Connell involved in legal tussle over same confidential information five years ago

THE CONFIDENTIAL files on child abuse that Cardinal Desmond Connell is attempting to withhold from a government inquiry were at the centre of another legal tussle five years ago.

Many of the 5,000 documents about suspect priests in the Dublin archdiocese were among those sought by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigations which investigated clerical abuse in the archdiocese in 2003.

wereld kerk

Spiegel want jes

Gott und die Welt; gevallen vrouwen en mannen

Frentrop, SJ

de Heijblom, Roggel

bron: Congregatie

Uitzending Gott und die Welt

WDR Fernsehen Vrijdag 08 februari 2008, van 09.20 - 9.50

Einzelhaft und Zwangsarbeit
Fürsorgeerziehung in Deutschland , naar verdere info

Neher: Nach dem Kriegsende hat sich die Pädagogik gegenüber den zwanziger
und dreißiger Jahren in den Heimen zunächst kaum verändert. Erst Ende der
sechziger, Anfang der siebziger Jahre kam es wirklich zu einer Revolution in der
Erziehung in Deutschland. Einer der Punkte, die wir selbstkritisch sehen ist,
dass häufig die Schwestern und Brüder ohne fachspezifische Qualifikation in den
Heimen arbeiteten. Viele Erfahrungen, die von den Kindern und Jugendlichen
gemacht wurden, liegen auch an einer Überforderung der Heimleiter und
Erziehenden. Bei allen Bemühungen der überwiegend engagierten Mitarbeitenden in diesen Jahren hat es zu lange gedauert, bis eine qualifizierte Arbeit im
Interesse der Kinder Fuß gefasst hat.

Verwegistan!

In naoorlogs Nederland lagen dankzij de propaganda de meiden in de korenschoven. Lekker warm in die koude oorlog.

1913

bron: Wezen en boefjes

waarschijnlijk tussen 1958-65, bron: particulier archief AAWL

De leugens van (progressief) RK Nederland, afgekocht met de kop van Finkensieper, afgewenteld op voormalige mishandelde en misbruikte kinderen en - inmiddels - stok oude wijfies! Als zusters , "nonnetjes", zorgeloos in hun kloosters.

Kinderen (van kinderen) en vrouwen, en een mannen kerk. mannenmacht en vrouwen!

Neher: Ich glaube nicht, dass es zur Systematik katholischer Einrichtungen
gehört hat. Es muss noch genauer geprüft werden, ob möglicherweise
konfessionelle Prägungen einen ohnehin praktizierten Erziehungsstil weiter verschärft haben. Wir werden deshalb der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung dieser Zeit mehr Raum geben und sind im Gespräch mit Hochschulen und Caritas-Experten, um wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über diese Zeit und die Folgen der Heimerziehung anzuregen. Wir schlagen auch vor, auf Konferenzen und anderen Veranstaltungen aktiv mit diesem Thema umzugehen

.......In koor: "In onze orde kennen wij geen onderscheid. Gelijke monniken, gelijke kappen. Sterker nog, wij mochten niets weten van elkaars voorgeschiedenis, opdat iedereen gelijke kansen kreeg, dochter van een ongehuwde moeder of een meisje met een strafblad." .....

Wij richtten een school voor hen op, gaven onderwijs en opvoeding in kleine groepen, want kennis gaf hun macht om het leven opnieuw en succesvol aan te pakken."Petra had intussen haar studie theologie afgerond en Trudy werd geroepen om (28 jaar) bij de congregatie in Venlo de administratie te verzorgen.

"In de jaren zestig ontdekten wij in kleine eenheden nieuwe vormen van kloosterleven waardoor wij een deel van onze zelfstandigheid konden behouden. Na het Tweede Vaticaans Concilie werd ons werk echter geblokkeerd door de leiding van de mannenkerk en de overheid begon met het onzalige centraliseren en fuseren.

Is dat duidelijk?

Duidelijk!

Vragen?

Geen vragen!

Mooi!

Dan kunnen we nu over gaan tot de garrrrroetplicht:

(bron: Paul van Vliet, Majoor Kees)

Dag,

Heilige Anthonius, beste vrind.....

7) f) Het gebruik van (verbasterde) vloekwoorden of schuttingtaal is vanzelfsprekend niet toegestaan.Vermijd zoveel mogelijk ruwe of platte woorden of dito uitdrukkingen. Ook verwijzingen, direct of indirect, naar sites waarin pornografische foto’s of afbeeldingen getoond worden zijn niet toegestaan.

met hartelijke groet.

Nederland een paar jaar verder ?