Inquiries under way into alleged abuse at Cork school

Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Wed, Aug 31, 2011

Three separate investigations are under way into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart congregation while managing their Coláiste an Chroí Naofa school in Carraig na bhFear, near Cork city.

Last night both the Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter welcomed decisions by the HSE and an Garda Síochána to investigate “concerns regarding the welfare and protection of children who attended a boarding school in Carraig na bhFear, Cork, run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart”.

It is also understood the congregation requested that the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children, conduct a review of child protection procedures at the school, which is currently under way.

State investigations there have been initiated by HSE national director Gordon Jeyes, and by Det Supt John McCann of the Garda’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Investigation Unit.

Last night Ms Fitzgerald said she “met Gordon Jeyes to discuss the issues involved and welcomed the priority being given by the HSE to the inquiry”.

The Ministers said she also felt that it was important to state they have been assured “that none of those against whom allegations have been made are currently engaged in any work activities which bring them into contact with children”.

In the Seanad on July 27th Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly named a priest who had taught at the school. Despite seven cases of alleged child abuse against the priest being reported to four different Garda stations between 1986 and 2008, the Director of Public Prosecutions declined to pursue a criminal prosecution against him, said Mr Daly.

Mr Daly said the Sacred Heart Missionaries had settled a civil case in relation to this priest before it was brought to court and accused them of failure to enforce restrictions placed upon the priest.

Last year, he said, the priest had been advertised as spiritual director for a pilgrimage abroad, where he could have unsupervised access to children.

Clerical abuse inquiry to begin
Irish Times 30-8-2011
Charlie Taylor


An investigation into the welfare and protection of children who attended a boarding school in Cork operated by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart is to commence, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed.

The move comes after a priest allegedly connected to child molestation was recently named in the Seanad.

In a statement issued tonight, HSE national director for children and families Gordon Jeyes said he had initiated an inquiry into the allegations which concerns Coláiste an Chroí Naofa, a school situated in Carraig na bhFear, about 12km outside of Cork city.

The inquiry is to be carried out in cooperation with An Garda Siochana.

An investigation by the Garda Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit is also under way.

Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly named the priest at the centre of the investigation in the Seanad in July. He said that despite seven cases being reported to four different Garda stations between 1986 and 2008, the Director of Public Prosecutions had declined to pursue a criminal prosecution.

Senator Daly said a religious order had, however, settled a civil case in relation to this priest before it was brought to court.

Coláiste an Chroí Naofa was established by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1950 as a seminary and was originally a boarding school for boys.

Since then it has evolved into a co-educational voluntary secondary school attended by approximately 450 boys and girls.

The school is currently managed by Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust (CEIST), a trustee body for the voluntary secondary schools fo the Daughters of Charity, the Presentation Sisters, the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionairies of the Sacred Heart.

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald and the Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter have welcomed this evening’s announcement.

The minister said they were limited in what they could say publicly state at this time until the investigation is completed.

However, they said it was important to state that they had been assured that none of those against whom allegations have been made are currently engaged in any work activities which bring them into contact with children.

Guatemala wist van ‘onethische’ medische experimenten

30-8-2010
NRC
Marije Willems

De regering van Guatemala zal haar excuses aanbieden voor de betrokkenheid van lokale artsen bij illegale medische experimenten van Amerikaanse wetenschappers op inwoners van het land. Dat zegt de vicepresident van Guatemala, Rafael Espada, in een interview met de BBC.

Door de experimenten zijn in Guatemala tussen 1946 en 1948 zeker 83 mensen gestorven binnen vijf jaar na het aflopen van het project. Honderden gevangenen, prostituees en psychiatrische patiënten zijn zonder hun medeweten geïnfecteerd met seksueel overdraagbare ziektes, waaronder syfilis en gonorroe, om een destijds nieuw antibioticum, penicilline, te testen. Guatemala erkent nu betrokkenheid.

De Amerikaanse wetenschappers wisten dat zij de ethische regels overtraden met de experimenten in Guatemala, zo blijkt uit Amerikaans onderzoek. Het hoofd van de onderzoekscommissie, die door Obama in het leven werd geroepen, spreekt van een “schaamtevolle periode in de medische geschiedenis”. Volgens de commissie werden 5.500 onwetende Guatemalteken het slachtoffer van de experimenten.
Obama bood vorig jaar al aan

In oktober gaf Hillary Clinton, als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, samen met minister van Gezondheid Kathleen Sebelius in een gezamenlijke verklaring de ‘verwerpelijke onderzoeken’ toe en president Obama belde zijn Guatemalteekse collega persoonlijk op om zijn excuses aan te bieden. De bevindingen van de presidentiële commissie worden volgende maand vrijgegeven. Een definitief rapport volgt in december.

Marijke, ter informatie

Je stelde een vraag.
Ik ga er van uit dat iemand die mij een vraag stelt recht heeft op een antwoord.
Je kreeg halverwege de middag een antwoord.
Maar dat mag jij (en anderen) blijkbaar niet lezen van die "lotgenoten belangenbehartigers"stichting.

Ik heb een printje gemaakt, maar vergeten even te noteren hoe laat dat was.
Dus daar heb jij niks aan, het spijt me maar ik had wel wat anders te doen.
Communiceren via die club is nu eenmaal niet mogelijk, zoals al weken duidelijk is geworden. (en misschien wel langer, dat weet ik niet); je wordt simpelweg belazerd. En is dus tijd en energie verspilling.

Wanneer je vraag integer was spijt me dat voor je.
Wanneer dat niet zo was, spijt me dat ook voor je!

Aan deze informatie heb je in ieder geval wél wat, bij deze dus.
Minachting en misbruik is een keuze. Als niet afhankelijk volwassen mens je laten minachten en misbruiken is dat óók.

Als ieder van ons: ook jij maakt je eigen keuzes en bent daarvoor verantwoordelijk.
Voor het nemen van je eigen verantwoordelijkheid kan het handig zijn informatie te hebben. Die heb je dus hierbij en als steeds in al die openheid waarover iedereen het zo heeft. Meer kan én wil ik niet voor je doen.

Ik wens ook jou het beste bij jouw keuzes in datgene wat je zoekt.

Als je de smaak eenmaal te pakken krijgt...d'engelse boot!

schuiveltje voor schuiveltje
ik ben pas in Camp Dreghorn,Edinburgh edoch....startbewijs-2 geleverd.

En dat dankzij de RTÉ
Doorschuivelen Jantje, we komme d'r wel.
Mijn kop, weinig eerwaard geachte zuster, is van mij; uwes kan de boom in.

Minister defends planned abuse reporting law

RTÉ
30-08-2011

Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald has reiterated her intention to apply planned new reporting requirements on child abuse across all organisations and individuals working with children.

She was responding to Cardinal Seán Brady's warning that undermining the vow of secrecy surrounding Confession would challenge the right of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Immediately after the Cloyne Report revealed Catholic Church cover-ups of clerical child sexual abuse, Ms Fitzgerald said the sacrament of Confession could not be used to claim exemption from new reporting rules the Government intended to introduce.

Ms Fitzgerald has now said she intends to bring the draft heads of the planned Children First Bill to Government in coming months and applying its new statutory reporting requirements across all organisations and individuals working with children.

She recalled that Taoiseach Enda Kenny had told the Dáil in July that the Irish people deserved and required compliance by all Church authorities here with the obligations to report all cases of suspected abuse to the State's authorities in line with the Children First National Guidance, which would have the force of law.

Brady: "She had exactly what each and every one of us has available to us today"

Hoeveel mensen zouden er in tranen, in woede danwel een lachsalvo uitgebarsten zijn bij die preek van Brady gisteren?

Je kunt van alles en nog wat denken en je afvragen over dat biechtgeheim. En terecht!
Maar wat kardinaal Brady in zijn hersens haalde is bij wijze van understatement toch niet anders dan wel heel bijzonder te noemen.


"....
Mother Teresa also had the Sacraments of the Church, especially the regular grace of confession and the Eucharist
...."

Ja, hoor.
En haar biechtvader was dan wel mijnheer Donald McGuire SJ.



Brady's "[...]
She had exactly what each and every one of us has available to us today
[...]"


is dan toch wel een aardige samenvatting van wereldwijd inmiddels eindeloze rijen rechtszaken en onderzoeksrapporten, waaronder naast de afdeling vullis binnen de kerk inmiddels kennelijk ook van het financieel managment.

Catholic clergy 'abused children for decades in County Donegal'

Report is expected to claim police were complicit in cover-up of sexual abuse by priests and lay members of the church

Henry McDonald
Ireland correspondent guardian.co.uk
29-8-2011

County Donegal in Ireland is about to have its bucolic image shattered by a report into how paedophiles, both clergy and laity, abused children for decades.

An investigation into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic diocese of Raphoe in County Donegal is about to report its findings, which are expected to be damning. Meanwhile, new evidence has emerged from victims of a parallel paedophile ring operating in the same Gaelic-speaking corner of the Irish Republic.

A number of survivors of abuse have told the Guardian that lay members of the church as well as priests sexually exploited them for years in the county.

And as with the expected conclusion of the report into Raphoe, they say the national police service, the Garda, was complicit in a culture of cover-up that allowed the perpetrators to carry on abusing them.

Speaking for the first time about his abuse as a child and the subsequent cover-up, John O'Donnell revealed that he had been abused since he was nine by a lay member of a local church choir.
"He assaulted me from when I was nine until I was 15, until I was old enough to know it was wrong. This man took advantage because I was adopted and regarded as something lower than most kids in the area.

"The abuse took place at his home and in a shop he ran. It went on from 1965 to 1972."
O'Donnell said that in 1973 he went to a local Garda station to report that he had been raped by the man, who has since died. He said the reaction to his claim was violent.
"A local guard was outraged that I was naming such a fine upstanding member of the community as a child rapist. The officer slapped me on the face and told me to get out. He said to me that I was adopted and not worth anything. From that day on I never fully trusted a member of the Garda Síochána."

For years, O'Donnell said, he hid what had happened to him, and got married and raised a family without discussing it with his loved ones. It was only in the late 1990s when revelations of widespread child abuse rocked the Irish Catholic church that he decided to face up to what had happened to him.
"I found out that my abuser was still in the church choir and I was outraged because he was working with children. So I drove up to a parochial house in the area and tried to speak to the parish priest about this man. At the time I had finally got somewhere with the gardaí and they had questioned this man in a Donegal police station. I informed the parish priest about this but he wouldn't even let me across his door. He kept saying: 'No, no, no … I am not speaking to you about this.' He didn't want to know, and bear in mind this was only back in 2005."

O'Donnell has claimed that other victims in this corner of Donegal are coming forward, with a picture emerging of an organised paedophile ring. Police are investigating their claims.

The Guardian has spoken to a number of other men in Donegal who have made similar allegations of an abuse ring and a cover-up spanning decades.

Throughout the decades of denial, the young men who were preyed upon by paedophiles in the county, both inside and outside the church, had one champion – a retired police detective,

Martin Ridge.

Ridge moved to the county at the end of his career, and became so disturbed by official indifference that he wrote a book about the children's experiences, Breaking the Silence.
He predicted that the Raphoe report would be "damning" and expose the same culture of "local denial and cover-up" that was found in other Catholic dioceses across Ireland.

Ridge admitted the police force he served in all his working life would not be spared withering criticism in the Raphoe report. Two years ago the Murphy report into widespread clerical abuse of children in Dublin, Ireland's largest Catholic diocese, found that senior Garda officers colluded with four archbishops and top clerics in covering up the sex crimes of priests on a massive scale in the city.

"There were 45 victims of three different paedophiles, one of whom was a priest, another a school teacher. None of the victims wanted to be interviewed in local gardaí stations. The question has to be asked as to why they did not trust the local force when this was going on," Ridge said.
The ex-Garda officer too has confirmed that an investigation is now under way into the alleged ring of abuse in north-west Ireland involving both priests and non-members of the clergy. It is understood to include an investigation into how a convicted child sex offender got a job in a local youth hostel after he was released from prison in 2006.

O'Donnell, meanwhile, opted to remain living in Falcarragh, County Donegal, despite the climate of cover-up and fear he has had to endure.

Surveying the natural beauty of the area, with its stunning mountains and seascapes, the 55-year-old said: "Yes, it's a beautiful area with amazing views and scenery … it would be even more beautiful but for some of the bastards still living here."

Child protection measures apply regardless of religious rules

The Irish justice minister has said that forthcoming child protection measures, including mandatory reporting will "apply regardless of any internal rules (Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed ) of any religious grouping".

Alan Shatter was responding to comments made by Cardinal Sean Brady who defended the seal of confession.

Cardinal Brady stressed it was a "sacred and treasured" rite.
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NCR John Allen, The Word From Rome, NCR,22/7/2005
BXVI jan. 2010
BXVI 19 maart 2010
VIS 20100412 (720)
Emmanuel Levinas

Church -State; de vleugels van een Ierse vlinder in China; why were there so few ready to stand up and speak out in the face of such an evil?

ANALYSIS: Relations between Ireland and the Vatican may be worse than is immediately apparent in the wake of the Taoiseach’s speech, writes DERMOT KEOGH

Dr Dermot Keogh is Professor Emeritus, University College Cork

WHEN I first read the speech by Taoiseach Enda Kenny regarding the Cloyne report, I wrongly concluded it had been delivered following widespread consultation within government departments, and that it was rooted in a carefully worked-out diplomatic strategy.

I know now that neither was the case.

The most senior officials in the relevant Government departments – people with wide experience and knowledge of church-State diplomacy – were not consulted, and there was no carefully crafted diplomatic plan. The speech, more scattergun than sure shot, ignored the checks and balances of an administrative system which has served this State well since its foundation.

It was hardly part of an Irish Government grand strategy to force the recall of the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza – unprecedented in the history of relations between this country and the Holy See. The archbishop had served in that position only since February 22nd, 2008.

But longevity is not the issue here.

The Holy See has a policy of seeking to preserve diplomatic relations intact even in the most trying and difficult of circumstances. Keeping an envoy in residence through revolutions, dictatorships and authoritarian regimes is part of the risk of working in the diplomatic profession. The diplomatic service of the Holy See is no exception. Diplomats have risked their lives, and paid with them, in upholding professional values and protecting the interests and citizens of their respective countries. The apostolic nuncio to Burundi, archbishop Michael Courtney, from Nenagh, was assassinated on December 29th, 2003, while in the service of the Holy See.

Why, therefore, would the Holy See recall the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland when the secretariat of state [foreign ministry of the Holy See] has left in position apostolic nuncios to serve in countries where clergy and bishops have been murdered by the government authorities, as in Argentina, in the latter part of the 1970s? One might, at random, add historical examples from the Nazi and Fascist periods in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

I cite these in an effort to underline the significance of recalling a nuncio from Ireland at this time. It must be emphasised the Holy See has not broken off diplomatic relations with this country. The nunciature in Dublin still functions, but without its head of mission.

This is as significant a drawback as it is a rebuff. Dublin and the Holy See, not wishing to make a bad situation worse, have politely attempted to minimise the importance of the recall in public. The contents of the respective diplomatic bags may tell another story.

What precipitated that action may be viewed by many in Ireland as over-reaction by the Holy See to just criticism by an Irish head of government. However, observing what has transpired, senior officials in the secretariat of state would have felt stupefaction at the tone and content of the Taoiseach’s address. Historically, Ireland simply did not behave in that way. When there were differences between Dublin and the Holy See, normal diplomatic channels had been used to conduct discussions between the two sovereign states.

The Taoiseach’s speech was a radical departure at a number of levels. Firstly, there were unintended discourtesies which anyone familiar with the workings of the diplomatic world would regard as serious. When speaking formally as head of government in parliament, the Holy See will have come to expect from Dublin a more guarded and precise use of language.

The depiction of the culture dominating “the Vatican to this day” as dysfunctional, elitist and narcissistic is hardly language associated with a speech by one head of government addressing another. Such scattergun language might have wounded, but would not have provoked a recall démarche.

But the key to the recall lies in another part of the speech which spoke of “an attempt by the Holy See to frustrate an Inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic . . . as little as three years ago, not three decades ago”. The Taoiseach also spoke of the “rape and torture of children” being downplayed or “‘managed’” by the Holy See “to uphold instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and ‘reputation’.”

Based on the words quoted above, is the head of the Irish government accusing the Holy See of deliberate and wilful efforts to prevent his government from dealing with clerical child sexual abuse? Are those accusations being addressed to the Holy See as an entity of the international system? If so, what is quoted above goes much further than stating the Holy See did not act robustly, expeditiously and in a timely fashion to oblige the Irish church to provide disclosure and mandatory reporting.

Is the speech making the Holy See formally responsible for the perpetuation of clerical child sexual abuse in Ireland? In that context, the recall of the apostolic nuncio from Dublin was not a petulant over-reaction. It was the only course open to the Holy See, given the gravity of the charges being laid against it by the head of the Irish Government.

While an official reply is being carefully drafted – with the help of Archbishop Leanza – it ought to be clear that the current conflict between the Holy See and the Government should not be allowed to deepen.

However, the speech has had unforeseen consequences which makes the chances of that happening all the more likely. An editorial in China News, for example, quotes the text of the Taoiseach’s speech to justify the repressive policy of the Chinese government towards the Catholic Church. This is an abuse of the Taoiseach’s speech. It will make for interesting exchanges between the Irish Ambassador in Beijing and the Chinese foreign ministry. It will also keep the chargé d’affaires at the Irish Embassy to the Holy See busy in the latter days of August.

Dublin now awaits the return of Archbishop Leanza to say his formal goodbyes (he has been posted to the Czech Republic) and to deliver the Holy See’s response. Reading the two documents side-by-side – the Taoiseach’s speech and the response of the Holy See – will make for an interesting contrast in styles. The document from the Holy See is bound to be an exemplar of high diplomacy, its content having relevance way beyond the shores of this small island.

Standing back from the world of high diplomacy, it is vital to keep a clear focus on what happened in Ireland regarding child sexual abuse. The Irish State, Irish society and the churches – the Catholic Church to the fore – must face up to their lamentable failure to protect children over the past 90 years.

In the Cloyne report there is reference to a primary school principal – whom I once had the pleasure to teach – who, in the late 1990s, withstood the might and complicity of Catholic Church authorities in that diocese, and at the very highest level, to discharge her duty of care to her students. Threatened with being taken to the “highest court in the land”, she would not yield to demands which would have put boys in her charge in danger of being abused by a priest. Facing calumny and detraction, she still would not yield. It was a lonely and a singular stance.

In reviewing the history of the past 90 years on this island, why – confronted by such widespread child sexual abuse – were there so few “righteous gentiles” in church, State or society ready to stand up and speak out in the face of such an unspeakable, pervasive evil?

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Malta Chamber welcomes ­pro-divorce lawyer’s reinstatement

The Chamber of Advocates yesterday welcomed the Curia’s decision to reinstate pro-divorce campaigner and family lawyer Deborah Schembri on the Church’s Ecclesiastical Tribunal after suspending her six months ago.

The Chamber said the decision was consistent with indications it had been given during meetings with Archbishop Paul Cremona.

The Chamber maintained that annulment decisions by the Eccelsiastic Tribunal also had an impact on society, and therefore the civil rights of those seeking an annulment should be safeguarded.

Dr Schembri, who led the pro-divorce movement to victory at the May 28 referendum, had been banned by the Church from serving on the tribunal after she was accused of spreading false doctrine on the indissolubility of marriage.

Hebbes !! 1+1 =2 + 1= een oostenrijkse hanggeranium

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Het is heel verstandig van het Stadsarchief Amsterdam haar archieven online te zetten. Dat scheelt bij uitbreidingen het uit gelukzaligheid onder Apachengehuil afbreken van de tent Domme, domme, domme verdomme domme nonnen. Wedje leggen dat er een foutje is gemaakt, die wel heel erg leuk is? En die Briesgang niet de Metselaarsgang maar de voor de hand liggende naam Danswijkersgang kreeg waarin inderdaad gemetseld werd? Opduikelen, die handel. Om een printje!

En dan ook nog 's uit een collectie van.....tadaaaaa.....jawel: (regent) Dreesmann.

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God, wat mooi. Om te zoenen! (uit te voeren door Hr Wolters, namens Hulp en Recht) "De beste reden om geen juwelen anders dan uit familieerfenissen te willen hebben is natuurlijk die onmogelijke vraag welke is nu het mooiste" sprak Salomon likkebaardend, waarop hij de rest van de wereld tot zijn familie verklaarde en onder het uitspreken van de wijze woorden zoek het zelf maar uit een schrijver benoemde voor de pestklus van het beschrijven dat die van Marietje en die van Jacobje was, waarmee het braille avant les lettres werd uitgevonden.

"Ons Genoegen"

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Neerlands voorthuppelende beschaving

't Heeft effe geduurd, maar dan heb je ook wat....
Valt de CIZ indicatie op de mat, blijkt niet alleen dat ze zelfs daar hebben gehoord van Mensenrechten, maar inmiddels ook de bijbehorende vooruitziende blik hebben.
Noem dat maar niks, na 50 jaar!
Is het nog effe de vraag of de einddatum per 2026 betekent dat we besloten hebben de VNverdragen over 15 jaar op te zullen zeggen, dan wel of we ondanks/dankzij * bezuinigingen besloten hebben dan de pil in het zorgpakket op te zullen nemen en of je hier nu bezwaar tegen moet maken of dat je dat met een gerust hart over zal laten aan onderzoekscie's van de RKK-N, je schijnt ten slotte met bisschopscarrieres heel oud te worden.



roem van alle landen,
dat wij hier met molentjes lopen
is toch heus geen schande

* aankruisen wat niet verlangd wordt.

Thanks Paddy
please do take care of your hair.

"Our Freedom can be compared to a jar with many holes, which cannot hold water. If each one of you, the sons of this nation can put your finger in one hole, the jar will hold water."

Guezo, son of Agonglo en Nan Agontimè

Remaklus en de taarten van Malmedy

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Feessie zonder picoloodje; Geplakte hyacintenbloemetjes en guppies naast een prikbord

In (een van) mijn dagboek(en) zit nog steeds een hyacintenbloemetje. Ondanks het smerige bruine plakband nog steeds herkenbaar, het kwam van een rose. 't Is er een van de drie die ik kreeg, van de andere 2 is alleen nog maar de afdruk van dat plakband, en een bruin viezeltje, bewijzend dat het niet aan de kwaliteit van dat papier maar aan dat plakband lag.
En dat ene lelijke rare bloemetje is het slecht gedroogde bewijs van zoveel.
Van hoeveel dingen mij eigenlijk nooit hebben kunnen schelen, of misschien wel de onzin van veel onderwijs - dank, dank, dank Hr van Calcar - had ik opgelet bij allerlei rare vakken had ik misschien nu wel geweten of dat door de zuurgraad van het papier of dat van het plakband komt.
Nu moet ik het doen met een prachtige fles granaatappelsap die mijn De Turk eindelijk voor me heeft kunnen vinden en mijn de feestvreugde verhogende valse blik -oen! kijk met een smaakbewuste klant rond in het land - naar de kassabedienende sufferd en de mededelingen over een schoonheidswedstrijd van Zuster Godelieva die, zoals Liesbeth K. ons meedeelde, "heden de eerste prijs had behaald in een kleurwedstrijd van Swiebertje: een krat azijn en een kist citroenen" met welke mededeling kennelijk de volgende fase van een opstand, de sexuele revolutie van Driehuis, werd ingeluid.

Dat niet opletten van mij was een foutje van die nonnen natuurlijk, mijnheer Lindenbergh.
Hadden ze in plaats van aan mijn kop te zeuren over het niet mogen of wel moeten lezen van een boek mij ooit uitgelegd dat er relatie bestaat tussen vogelpoep en buskruit had ik als wijze meid op de toekomst voorbereid vast wel opgelet.

Eigen schuld dikke bult. Nu kom ik niet verder dan gegrinnik over opmerkingen van Monteiro over ego-documenten bij een van hun hagiografiën. 'tIs een lastige klus, zo'n dagboek lezen, laat dat bloemetje zien. Als je 't niet weet, zie je het niet.
Waarmee dat rare bloemetje ook maar even laat zien dat je als theoloog vanzelfsprekend onder het genot van een glas goede wijn een prachtig verhaal zou kunnen schrijven over Cruyffs tegeltjeswijsheden, en dat beslist niet over hoeft te laten aan voorzitters van natuurmonumenten.

Linzensoep; Stoffig misbruik bij misbruik stof

PS Ik heb de gebruikte voorbeeldnaam gezien de privacy zelf maar even weggehaald, waarmee je al dan niet in de Stichting alleen nog maar bestuurlijk hoeft te beslissen of je mijn bijdrage(s) wel of niet weghaald of dat je "lot"genotenbelangenbehartiging gaat doen.


Een keuzemogelijkheid die in het kader van slachtofferhulp en volwassenen natuurlijk nogal essentieel is.

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De aanslag op de cock uit de veldtocht van de 80 jarige Napoleon tegen Marietjes Louisje

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What are human rights?

werkgever in de ring en potje geestelijk turnen

Nog effe dan blijkt het hele proces van Anderson een Belgenmop te zijn.

En die lachbui is het best mogelijke antwoord op de vraag wat is ananas? en farao? !
Maar dáár kan je het Vaticaan natuurlijk weer niet verantwoordelijk voor stellen.

Ik vrees dat het enige wat dat Vaticaan daarop dan zou kunnen antwoorden een geheel nieuwe canonieke straf zou kunnen zijn,
een Danneelspostzegel met het gebed "Lieve Heertje, laat de kindertjes in Afrika zilverpapier lekker vinden" waarmee de bidprentjes dan betaald kunnen worden.

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klapper gebit met suiker

over tuig en modelleren, Lombardi: probeer die stoel eens op te tillen.

Sexual activity is tolerated if secret, therefor I only lie if I have to
Naar Richard Sipe on mental reservation.

Irish Independent
August 24, 2011
Patsy McGarry,
Religious Affairs Correspondent

Clergy devalues language in response to child sex abuse




It's that “if” word again. Irish Catholic bishops and archbishops have been finding it so very helpful in recent years when expressing personal sorrow for what others have perceived as wrongs on their part.

Such a delightfully useful word. It creates just the right amount of wriggle-room to allow a putatively penitent prelate allow an outside perception of deepest repentance while not really feeling such a thing at all.

You could say the small “if” word, with such a big meaning, comes from the same stable as that thoroughbred “mental reservation”, of which there is none better when conveying a false impression – truthfully.

And so, little “if” popped up when the former bishop of Cloyne John Magee spoke to RTÉ on Monday. “To the victims I say I am truly horrified by the abuse they suffered – it is very clear to me when I read the complete report – and if through my not fully implementing the 1996 guidelines which we had, I have made any victim suffer more, on my bended knee, I beg forgiveness, I am sorry.”

The extravagance of the language (how Italianate!) should not distract from the place of little “if” in the scheme of things. Or that of the equally useful “fully” term.

The Dublin archdiocese liked the “fully” word too. In explaining how it could say in a mid-1990s statement it had co-operated with gardaí in dealing with allegations of clerical child sex abuse cases, while at the same time retaining files not handed over to gardaí, the Dublin archdiocese pointed out it had not said it co-operated “fully” with gardaí. This was also presented to the Murphy commission as an example of mental reservation in all its glory.

Recall that the Cloyne report found Magee “took little or no active interest” in the management of clerical child sexual abuse cases until 2008, 12 years after the framework document on child sexual abuse was agreed by the Irish Bishops’ Conference.

There are no “ifs” about that. It was “little or no” interest.

And Magee was similarly athletic with his use of language in the statement he issued on Monday.

He accepted “full responsibility for the failure of the diocese to effectively manage allegations on child sexual abuse”. He unreservedly apologised “to all those who suffered additional hurt because of the flawed implementation of the church procedures, for which I take full responsibility”.

This would suggest he was taking on board such responsibility because of his role as bishop rather than through any direct personal fault of his own.

And that “fully” word appears again. He let the victims down “by not FULLY [my capitals] implementing the guidelines which were available to me” and he apologised “to the people of the diocese for not managing this important work more effectively”.

It is difficult not to agree with the Cloyne woman, herself abused by a priest, who told my colleague Barry Roche last Monday she was sceptical over Magee’s expression of remorse, saying she had heard so many apologies from the bishop and other clergy in Cloyne that she questioned their value. “Anyway, whatever he does now can’t undo what was done to us. We can all be sorry after the fact – he can say sorry as much as he wants, but it isn’t going to change what happened to me or to the other girls who were abused,” she said. Wise words.

Indeed, it is hard not to concur with Magee himself when he said on Monday, “I feel there is nothing I can say now, which will ease the pain and distress for victims.” There isn’t.

The problem Magee and other senior clergy face is that they have devalued language. They have rendered words of sorrow and remorse redundant through repeated abuse.

They have done as did Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass. “When I use a word,” he said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” The question was, said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” He knew better. “The question is,” he said, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

The bishops and archbishops might also reflect on what became of Humpty Dumpty.

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The former Bishop of Cloyne Dr John Magee has said he feels ashamed by the abuse that occurred in his diocese and that he fully accepts responsibility for the failure to fully implement the church's child protection guidelines there.

In his first interview since the publication of the Murphy Commission Report on the handling of abuse allegations in the Diocese of Cloyne, Dr Magee told RTÉ News he was truly horrified when he read the full extent of the abuse detailed in the report.

Bishop Magee later released a statement in which he 'unreservedly' apologised to all victims of child sexual abuse in the Cloyne diocese.

He said he felt there was nothing he could say now which would ease the pain and distress of victims.

He said he understood why victims were angry and that he had let them down by not fully implementing the guidelines which were available to him.

Speaking to RTÉ, he said: 'To the victims I say I am truly horrified by the abuse that they suffered. It all came to me very clearly when I read the complete report.

'And if by my not fully implementing the 1996 guidelines I have made any victims suffer more, in my bended knee I beg forgiveness. I am sorry.'

He said he is prepared to speak to victims privately and offer them his deepest apologies.

'More than that I do not know what to say. Words are not sufficient.'

He said he issued the guidelines on handling abuse allegations to every priest in his diocese.

'I endeavoured to do so (implement the guidelines), but I recognise that I didn't go far enough to see to it that they were implemented.'

'I feel ashamed that this happened under my watch. It should never have and I truly apologise.'

He said it was his 'understanding' that the guidelines were being adhered to and that most of the abuse took place long before he took up the position of Bishop of Cloyne.

When asked if he had plans to make restitution to the victims, Dr Magee said that was 'a matter for the diocese'.

Dr Magee said he did not feel 'compromised' by Chapter 26 of the report where he was found to have behaved in an inappropriate manner towards a man named 'Joseph'.

He concluded the statement by asking to be allowed to live in peace as a retired bishop after 23 years of service.

Lack of accountabilty - Madden

The latest statement issued by Bishop John Magee has failed to account in any way for what was revealed in the Cloyne Report, according to the victim who first exposed crimes of clerical sexual abuse in the country.

Andrew Madden says he wants the bishop to explain why he told the Health Service Executive that the diocese reported allegations to it or An Garda Síochána when this was untrue.

He also wants Dr Magee to explain why he told the then Minister for Children, Barry Andrews, that the Irish bishops' guidelines on reporting were being complied with when this was untrue.

'I have just read the statement by Bishop John Magee in respect of the Cloyne Report,' Mr Madden said.

'The statement contains repeated apologies for the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Cloyne Diocese and for "the failure of the Diocese to effectively manage allegations of child sexual abuse".

'It is hard to imagine such empty words being of any comfort or assistance to anyone.

'The fact that Bishop Magee failed to account in any way for what was revealed in the Cloyne Report does not come as any surprise.

'Catholic Bishops, in this country and elsewhere, have a track record of not wanting in any way to be held accountable for their actions and inactions as revealed in the various reports.'

A well-known Cork priest has launched a bitter attack on former Cloyne bishop John Magee after Magee had issued a public apology about his actions in covering up sex abuse on children in his diocese.

Father Michael Mernagh, a priest in his diocese, came to prominence by walking from his parish to Dublin in atonement for victims of child abuse.

In an unprecedented attack on a fellow member of the clergy he described the Bishop's apology as “hollow” and told him he should no longer stay in his diocese.

Father Mernagh, an Augustinian, told Bishop Magee he should "remove himself completely from the good people of North Cork - go back to a monastery of your order and continue to do that penance."

He stated : "What you need to do is to go out in front of the Cathedral in Cobh and there in a purple robe of penance, prostrate yourself for some time, for some days, in fasting and in prayer, and be open to hear the criticism and whatever the people and priests and others would have to say".