The Irish Times - Wednesday, December 9, 2009 BISHOP'S VIEWS:
THE BISHOP of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh, said yesterday that the crisis in the Church was also a time of opportunity to remove what was wrong in the past.
Speaking ahead of today’s winter general meeting of the Bishops’ Conference, Dr Walsh said in Shannon that the bishops attending the meeting will be going there “in a very humble and repentant spirit and hope and pray that we can in some way touch the hearts of those who have been so hurt over the years”.
He said: “Whatever our failures have been in the past, I think all of us are going into that meeting in that spirit, that we need to get back to the values and teachings and example of Jesus Christ.”
He said there was an “opportunity to remove whatever was wrong in the past . . . Whatever price it takes, we want to remove all of that – whatever it takes to bring the real spirit of Christ . . . to bring that back, to bring back truth, justice, compassion and love”.
The Irish Times - Friday, December 11, 2009 Call for abused to seek help and report crimes to Garda
VICTIM SUPPORT: VICTIMS OF clerical child sex abuse who have not yet sought help or counselling should make contact with a support group and report the crime to the Garda, the Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime has said.
In a statement welcoming the publication of the Dublin diocesan report yesterday, the commission said the impact of the crime was comparable to that experienced by victims of the most serious acts of violence.
“The abuse is all the more appalling given that it was perpetrated by men in positions of great trust and publicly committed to high Christian standards, but sadly betrayed both trust and standards,” it said.
The commission, set up by the Government in 2005 to provide financial support to the victims of crime, said it hoped the report could assist victims in their journey to wholeness and peace.
It said the church should be proactive in providing support for victims of abuse and reform its practices and procedures to ensure proper, prompt and decisive action where suspicions of abuse come to notice.
It also urged people to remember the majority of cases of abuse coming to attention occurred within families.
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Spotless Mind? Fear Memories In Humans Weakened With Beta-Blocker Propranolol
ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2009) — A team of Dutch researchers led by Merel Kindt has successfully reduced the fear response. They weakened fear memories in human volunteers by administering the beta-blocker propranolol. Interestingly, the fear response does not return over the course of time.The findings were published in the March 2009 issue of Nature Neuroscience.
Until recently, it was assumed that the fear memory could not be deleted. However, Kindt's team has demonstrated that changes can indeed be effected in the emotional memory of human beings.
The Irish Times - Friday, December 11, 2009 Madam, – Thanks to Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (December 3rd) for alerting me to the silence of “ordinary priests and nuns”. Let me now stand up and be counted. I strongly believe that the bishops indicted in the Murphy report should publicly accept this personal responsibility and, if they are currently in office, should resign.
Let me clarify some points: 1. We need to distinguish between the church (all baptised members) and the institutional church which has so grievously offended in this matter. 2. The guilt of these heinous crimes should be attributed not to the church as a whole, but to those individuals who are personally responsible. 3. Bishops cannot be “de-bishoped”. A man may be removed from an office but he remains a bishop. 4. The bishops of Ireland do not owe obedience to any one of their own – only to the Pope. 5. My faith does not rest on the moral quality of any priest or bishop. It is a direct relationship to God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I am very happy to appreciate good priests and bishops and to encourage them in these hard times. – Yours, etc,
ANNE MAHER,
Loreto Convent,
Bray, Co Wicklow.
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