CHILD ABUSE MARCH: Grandola vila morena

Archbishop praises 'man of principle' as atonement priest ends epic walk
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
RONAN McGREEVY

CHILD ABUSE MARCH: FATHER MICHAEL Mernagh ended his 300km walk of atonement yesterday afternoon with applause from a waiting crowd and an embrace from Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin.

The archbishop was waiting on the steps of the Pro-Cathedral to welcome back a priest who has been calling for the resignation of the Bishop of Cloyne, Dr John Magee, since it emerged that the Catholic Church's own investigation had revealed serious flaws in the Cloyne diocese's handling of allegations of clerical sex abuse.

Though he is 70, Fr Mernagh, a former marathon runner, began his walk from the seat of the diocese at Cobh Cathedral on December 30th without training or preparation and at a time when most people's minds were on festive matters.

"He's a man of principle. I respect anybody like that. I appreciate very much his gesture, but it's his day and it's a credit to him," said Archbishop Martin whose public gesture of support for Fr Mernagh is likely to make life more uncomfortable for the embattled bishop.

Fr Mernagh was anxious to arrive on time, but, despite visits to Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross and Christ Church Cathedral, the sprightly pace that the Augustinian priest has kept throughout his 300km odyssey meant that he arrived 11 minutes before his scheduled 1.30pm finish.

At 10am the priest set out from the Augustinian Novitiate in Templeogue in the company of about a dozen supporters including a Traveller couple, Mick "The Man" Connors and his wife Nan, who Fr Mernagh had helped back in 1984 when he stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent them being evicted from a site.

By the time he completed his journey he was joined by at least 50 others. They included Paddy Doyle, the wheelchair-bound author of The God Squad, the searing autobiography which was published in the 1980s before the trickle of clerical sex abuse allegations became a flood, fellow abuse victim Marie Collins and the co-ordinator of Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) John Kelly.

They were joined by Barnados' chief executive Fergus Finlay, Sister Stanislaus Kennedy and Travellers from the Pavee Point project. Augustinian priests Fr Liam Ryan and Fr Ben O'Brien also shared the journey.

Fr Mernagh's first act on arrival at his final destination was to praise the weather, which has been remarkably dry throughout his walk given the time of year, the Irish countryside and the support of so many people.

"I realise one thing, though, as I'm ending this part of my journey: our journey to give justice and to make atonement is only beginning," he said.

"I have called, as I've called in the past, on the priests and bishops for a new heart of atonement. We must recognise that we are all at fault to allow this horrific history of clerical child abuse to go on. We need to come out of our denial, all of us, and ensure that this never happens again.

Before he began his walk, Fr Mernagh paid a visit to Bishop Magee. "As I told him in the sacristy in Cloyne, he must carry out his responsibilities. If he has failed, or I have failed, then I have to take the consequences of that.

"For the sake of his own clergy and his people, he has admitted he has been at fault. It is logical for him to step aside on all accounts.

Fr Mernagh laid the placard which he carried around his neck on the altar of the Pro-Cathedral and, after leading the congregation in the Magnificat, received a standing ovation from the crowd.

En Maria?
Die schepte Merton en Augustinus nog eens een extra gouden bord rijst met krenten op en samen dronken ze op een paar wereldse glimoogies. En zo kwam het dat ze van ergens op aarde Herodus gegrom over revolutionair tuig met hun bevrijdingstheologie niet hoorde voor zij zich in conclaaf over waar ze nu die boon eens zouden gaan verstoppen terugtrokken.
God? Die zag dat het goed was en speelde met een duif, Lazarus.

Maar over zijn hand kroop een heel klein spinnetje.

aardappelziekte, polioepidemie en d'engelse boot

Er was een oorlogsschip
dat was al op een duimpje na
gezonken op een klip

en het vlees was er goedkoop
men kocht er vijfentwintig pond
voor een glad houten knoop

Ghislain en de familie Roothoofd opgevist

Lig je aan de Schelde: Jacobs hemelvaart

het IJ zei, het ij zij
haha het was je broertje niet die je in de pan wou hakken
en de volgende dag at ik rijst
met hele jonge kip
of haan.

(uit: bitter zeemanslied)



Mais dis-moi maman, dis-moi donc
qu'arrivait-il si un'avion
perdait une de ces bombes
sur le sol étranger
quand ça viens-ça, veut tu me l'éxpliquer?

Viens-ça, mon fils, écoute bien
si une telle chose arriverait demain
mets toi vite à genoux
et même si tu attends
les avions d'acier bleu dans le ciel,
je t'en prie, mon enfant,
récite une prière
s'ils t'en laissent le temps

Sing Our Souls back home

Atonement priest nears end of walk

Monday, January 5, 2009

RONAN McGREEVY

A PRIEST who has been walking for nine days to atone for clerical sex abuse will finish his walk tomorrow when he arrives at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral.
Fr Michael Mernagh (70) began his trek in Cobh, Co Cork, on December 29th and has walked more than 150 miles to date.

He held a vigil on Christmas Eve outside St Colman’s Cathedral to protest against the Diocese of Cloyne’s handling of sex abuse claims and the Church’s other failings over clerical sex abuse.

Fr Mernagh said he had been blessed by the weather on his journey which has been remarkably dry for the time of the year and by the dozens of people who had joined him on his walk.

“The more I have walked the more I feel it [child sex abuse] is widespread beyond our comprehension. I don’t think priests or bishops understand how widespread and serious it is.”

He will walk from Blessington, Co Wicklow, to Rathfarnham, where he trained as a priest, today.

People will be shocked by sex abuse report, says archbishop

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin: "The Ferns Report shocked clergy, the church, the nation. It would be foolish not to realise that this will also be the case now."

'staggering' 400 people are known or suspected to have suffered clerical sex abuse at the hands of priests in the Dublin diocese, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin tells Patsy McGarry

It would be fair to say that few institutions face 2009 with such dread as the Catholic Church in Ireland. Not alone will it have to deal with the effects on its services of the economic downturn and its losses on the stock market, but it must also anticipate publication of four separate reports on clerical child sex abuse from among those in its ranks.

It begins this week, on Wednesday, when Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews will present a HSE national audit on child protection practices in all the State's Catholic dioceses, including Cloyne, to the Cabinet.

Later this month the church's own independent watchdog, its National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) in the Catholic Church in Ireland, will present its audit of such practices in all Catholic dioceses on the island.

Then, at the end of the month, the report from the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation into how the archdiocese handled allegations of clerical child sex abuse between January 1st, 1975, and April 30th, 2004, is expected to be published.

No one believes it will make for pleasant reading.

And in February, the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is expected to publish its report on the abuse of children in reformatories, industrial schools and orphanages run by 18 Catholic religious congregations throughout the State. This year promises to be yet another annus horribilis for the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Where the Dublin Commission is concerned, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is "happy it is coming to a conclusion. I hope they have time to finish it and don't have to truncate its work unilaterally". He is under no illusions as to what is expected.

"People are going to be shocked," he said.

...

Archbishop Martin said he had been giving out figures covering the 68-year period since 1940, which is over twice the time span being inquired into by the commission as he wished to accommodate living memory and every priest of the archdiocese ordained since 1940. It was also the case that "our detection rate, as opposed to the rest of society, is very high", he said.

He recalled how "over the last few years there has been a growing awareness of the effects abuse has on children and how it doesn't go away. I presented 66,000 documents to the commission, which I read in large part. It was not nice reading. It was revolting. Saying 'sorry' is all I can say, but it doesn't mend people's lives," he said.

In the weeks before Christmas he had meetings with priests of the archdiocese to prepare them for publication of the commission report. He couldn't even tell them about his own dealings with the commission, as "it's an offence".

But as a general observation on its work, he found the commission's conduct of the investigation "very beneficial . . . with no leaks".

He won't know what is in the report until it comes out, but suspects that "a lot of priests will be very hurt" by its findings.

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Charity wants gardaí to deal with clerical abuse cases

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent

ONE IN Four, the charity that provides support for people who have suffered sexual abuse, has said "all discretionary action regarding the safeguarding of children be removed from the church".

Responding to the ongoing controversy about how allegations of clerical sex abuse were handled in Cloyne, the charity said at the weekend that all allegations of sexual abuse should be "referred immediately as a matter of course to the HSE and the gardaí, the only authorities who have the expertise and competence to investigate allegations".

However, Catholic bishops have repeatedly called for changes in legislation to be made in the Republic so they can fully comply with State requests for all information they possess on child sex abuse allegations.
Bishops in cross-Border dioceses have been supplying all such information to the Northern Ireland authorities, while still being unable to do so in the Republic.

Bishop Leo O'Reilly of Kilmore diocese and chairman of the Bishops's Commission on Education, has told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science in the past that the Catholic Church here was fully in favour of mandatory reporting where this was protected by law and State policy.

He said the Ferns Report (2005) had called for legal changes to be made in relation to reporting of cases and on "executive privilege", to protect those participating in inter-agency groups with gardaí­ and health authorities from potential legal actions relating to suspicions, rumour, innuendo or complaints that were "demonstrably untrue".

He also called for the "introduction of a system of vetting and clearance similar to the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Pocva) system operated in Northern Ireland ".

He said an all-island system was required. "Indeed a European-wide system would be welcome," he said.

The Pocva system allows for agencies to share what was described as "soft information" - rumour or anecdotal evidence that a person could pose a danger to children.

Last March, in a submission by the Catholic bishops to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children they described as "a critical area" under consideration by the committee, "the provision of legal authority for the collection and exchange of information relating to the risk or actual occurrence of child sexual abuse".
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Zwavel en Salpeter

Internationale Nieuwe Scenes :

Gij zult Uw hoof niet schudden.

From the late 19th century right up to the 1970s, an estimated 150,000
native children – First Nations, Inuit and Métis – were packed off to the
schools, funded by the state and run by the Catholic, Anglican and United
churches.

The story has taken a more sinister turn, with allegations about death
by torture, fatal medical experiments, forced sterilisation and secret burials
in mass graves filtering into the public domain.

These allegations have been gathered and disseminated by Kevin Annett,
a defrocked minister who was thrown out of the United Church in 1996 for his
part in exposing the schools scandal and the clergy's sale of entrusted native
lands to a logging company.

Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, apologised last
year on behalf of the religious authorities.

"We failed them, we failed ourselves, we failed God. We failed because
of our racism and because of the belief that white ways were superior to
aboriginal ways," he said. Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
has responded to the claims over Mr Annett's allegations by ordering maps to be
drawn up of possible burial sites and research into numbers and causes of death.

"We have built false models of God and we have built false models of Church which become ideology or rule book or power structure rather than the place where in our vacillation we can turn to a God who is always faithful and who will bless us and protect us. " Diamud Martin 01-01 -2009

Mét feestrecept: paars rose 2008/9 onderweg naar WYD 2011: Katholieken aller landen ...de heilige moederkerk

Vereenvoudigde samenvatting

Hopelijk heeft u in een van de kerst-missen het
tijdschrift gekregen, maar als dat niet het geval is,
vindt hier een vereenvoudigde samenvatting.
U mag zich in ieder geval "Welkom thuis!" voelen!

Katholiek? kies voor een lekker scharreldier

Mét feestrecept voor een heerlijk toetje.

Osservatore Romano
’De pil milieuverontreinigend en oorzaak mannelijke onvruchtbaarheid’
Geplaatst door Theo Borgermans op zondag 4 januari 2009 om 00:05u

VATICAANSTAD (RKnieuws.net) - De contraceptiepil "heeft verwoestende effecten op het leefmilieu en is gedeeltelijk verantwoordelijk voor de ’onvruchtbaarheid’ bij de man". Dat schrijft de Osservatore Romano, de krant van het Vaticaan, zaterdag.

De pil "heeft sinds jaren verwoestende effecten op het leefmilieu door tonnen hormonen in de natuur te doen belanden via de urine van de vrouwen die ze nemen’, beweert de auteur van het artikel, Pedro José Maria Simon Castelvi, voorzitter van de internationale federatie van de verenigingen van katholieke artsen.

"Wij beschikken over voldoende gegevens om te stellen dat een niet onbelangrijke oorzaak van de mannelijke onvruchtbaarheid - die zich uit door een constante daling van de spermatozoïden bij de man - in het westen de vervuiling van het leefmilieu is’, voegt hij eraaan toe, zonder echter meer uitleg te geven.

De stelling van dokter Castelvi heeft meteen reacties uitgelokt. Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-voorzitter van een vereniging voor de verdediging en het onderzoek over contraceptie, voert aan dat de hormonen in orale contraceptiva, eens gemetaboliseerd, geen karakteristieke effecten van vrouwelijke hormonen meer hebben. Flavio Franconi, de verantwoordelijke van de Italiaanse vereniging voor farmacologie, onderstreept dat de hormonen in de pil zoals de oestrogenen "overal aanwezig zijn.. in de plastiek, in de ontsmettingsmiddelen en in het vlees dat we eten". (tb)

hi sel gebruken die vrihede der poorte naden poortrecht

bron ansa

The Vatican will no longer automatically adopt Italian laws as its own when a new statute comes into effect on Thursday, according to Vatican daily Osservatore Romano.Jose' Maria Serrano Ruiz, president of the Commission for the Revision of the Code of Vatican Law, said the move was motivated by the ''exorbitant number'' of Italian laws, as well as their ''instability'' and frequent contrast with ''the irreversible principles of the Church''.Although the Vatican is an independent city-state, its residents are largely recognised as Italian citizens.Under the current statute signed by Pope Piux XI in 1929, Italian laws are accepted by the Holy See except in cases where there is ''radical incompatibility'' with the basic principles of canon law, Ruiz said.But the new statute signed by Pope Benedict XVI will mean all Italian laws will have to be examined by Vatican authorities before they are adopted as part of the city-state's own legislation.Italian Parliament Relations Minister Elio Vito said Wednesday that he agreed ''from a technical point of view'' with some of the criticism published in Osservatore Romano.''There's no doubt that there are too many laws, they are often written badly and they are sometimes not very understandable,'' he said.But he pointed out that Simplification Minister Roberto Calderoli has been working to cut more than 36,000 laws, most of which were passed before Italy's Constitution went into effect in 1948, from the Italian code.Vito added that an ad hoc committee in the Chamber of Deputies was at work to eliminate ''those mysterious references and paragraphs and articles with which everyone has come unstuck at least once'', while the government also plans to publish laws online to improve accessibility.Opposition Democratic Party Senator Giorgio Tonini meanwhile leapt to the defence of Italian law in daily newspaper La Stampa, expressing surprise at what he described as the Vatican's ''peremptory failing'' of the democratic Italian system. ''Parliament produces laws based on the changeable course of public opinion, there is a continuous political discussion and the general vision changes according to whether the centre-right or centre-left are in power,'' he said.The Vatican's new statute also states that the Holy See will scrutinize international treatises before deciding whether to sanction ''the explicit admission of conformity of the Holy See'' - a measure that has been implicit in the past.The move comes in the wake of a flap over a French proposal that the United Nations approve a declaration decriminalising homosexuality, which was backed by Italy but which the Vatican partly condemned, enraging gay rights groups.The Vatican delegation at the UN urged countries around the world to decriminalise homosexuality but criticised the wording of the proposal, saying it went too far in an attempt to place different sexual orientations on the same level.

Civitate Dei Stadsrechten; maar gelukkig hebben we de foto's nog

Waar geen klager is daar is geen rechter




Ic sal hu lesen sonder brief
Die verraderen openbare
So dat ic niemene en spare
Dien ic te wroughene schuldich bem

Moorsoldaten,chocolademelk met vellen en rodondender Maria red ons.

Fonds voor werklozen
Paus dringt aan op waardige arbeidsomstandigheden
Geplaatst door Theo Borgermans op zondag 28 december 2008 om 14:20u

VATICAANSTAD (RKnieuws.net) - Paus Benedictus XVI heeft zondag aangedrongen op waardige arbeidsomstandigheden voor iedereen. De kerkleider maakt zich zorgen over het toenemend aantal werknemers dat in hachelijke omstandigheden moet werken.

Kardinaal Dionigi Tettamanzi, aartsbisschop van Milaan, de economische hoofdstad van Italië, heeft inmiddels een fonds van 1 miljoen euro opgericht om werklozen en personen die binnenkort hun werk verliezen als gevolg van de crisis financieel te steunen.

In Italië zijn duizenden personen technisch werkloos als gevolg van de economische crisis. (tb)

Ondernemingsraad betreurt bekendmaking met Kerstmis
Gedwongen ontslag voor vijftien medewerkers aartsbisdom Utrecht
Geplaatst door Ton Huitink op dinsdag 30 december 2008 om 00:05u (Bron: RTV Utrecht)

UTRECHT (RKnieuws.net) - Het hing al enige tijd in de lucht dat de reorganisatie van het aartsbisdom Utrecht niet zonder gedwongen ontslagen zou gaan verlopen. Deze week, vlak voor Kerstmis, hebben zo’n vijftien medewerkers het bericht ontvangen dat hun functie verdwijnt en dat zij worden ontslagen, zo meldt de regionale omroep RTV Utrecht.

De aartsbisschop van Utrecht, mgr. Eijk en zijn staf, hebben enkele maanden geleden al aangekondigd dat het Utrechtse aartsbisdom er financieel zeer slecht voor staat. Er zou drastisch worden ingegrepen in de organisatie en de personele formatie van het bisdom.

De medewerkers van het bisdom hebben lange tijd in onzekerheid moeten leven over de vraag of zij hun baan bij het bisdom konden behouden of dat hun functie zou verdwijnen. Met deze ontslaggolf is een einde gekomen aan die onzekerheid.

De ondernemingsraad, die in allerijl door het bisdom was ingesteld, om te voldoen aan alle wettelijke eisen bij een eventuele ontslagronde, in het kader van overleg en medezeggenschap, is het oneens met de reorganisatie en de gedwongen ontslagen. De bisschop heeft het advies niet overgenomen.
De ondernemingsraad betreurt het dat juist met kerst de medewerkers dit slechte nieuws hebben ontvangen. Volgens OR-voorzitter mevrouw van der Bunt is er uiteindelijk toch voor gekozen om het slechte nieuws toch zo snel mogelijk aan de betrokken medewerkers bekend te maken om hen niet langer in onzekerheid te laten verkeren.

Het bisdom was, vanwege de kerstvakantie, niet bereikbaar voor commentaar, aldus RTV Utrecht.

'Ach meneer Sonneberg, meneer Sonneberg,
waar is de gulle lach op heden gebleven, meneer Sonneberg, dat vraag ik U af?'

Priest's long march: Cobh to Dublin

Sa, pater trok naar Vendelo, van cher ami
Gij sterre, gij moet er zo stille niet staan

A la berline postiljon
Gij moet er met ons naar Bethlehem gaan

Monday, December 29, 2008

A Dublin-based Augustinian priest will this morning begin a nine-day "walk of atonement" for all who have suffered clerical child sex abuse, from Cobh to Dublin's Pro-Cathedral.

Fr Michael Mernagh (70) has invited everyone to join him "if only for a few yards of the road".

He leaves Cobh at 9am with the aim of arriving at Dublin's Pro- Cathedral on January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany.

His walk was prompted by the recent critical report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Fr Mernagh has spent two nights over Christmas outside St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh, in a vigil for victims of clerical child sex abuse. Fr Mernagh said Bishop of Cloyne Most Rev John Magee had given his blessing to the venture.

Fr Mernagh said clergy in Cloyne were "in a state of stress. Everybody is really suffering." Today he hopes to get as far as Youghal.

onnozele kinderen driekoningenboon in bakskes lievevrouwenbedstro

kinderlokkers

onwards christian soldiers bron

Jonge wacht.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Christmas Midnight Mass early Thursday by sending out an appeal for children who are abused, forced to live on the street or serve as soldiers.
In the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica, Benedict marked the birth of Jesus with a call to the faithful to help children who are denied the love of their parents and those who are exploited across the world.
"The Child of Bethlehem summons us once again to do everything in our power to put an end to the suffering of these children," he said.
Delivering his homily in Italian, Benedict recalled the plight of "street children who do not have the blessing of a family home, of those children who are brutally exploited as soldiers and made instruments of violence, instead of messengers of reconciliation and peace."
He also spoke of minors who are "victims of the industry of pornography and every other appalling form of abuse, and thus are traumatized in the depths of their soul."

Haha, die paus. Heeft Utrecht zeker vergeten hem de digipauselijke vervloekingen door te geven.
Hoe dan ook: dag St Anne, de groetjes aan Maria. Van de paus. En van Stefan.
En van mij natuurlijk.

het spreekwoord van de vogel en de vis: "Wil jij niet meezingen, je bromt?"

Borden pap en gepiel met bragaiaanse pom
kippevel
met varkensoesters

Zálig.

de pauselijke ceremonie meester

Those were the days, my friend

We thought they'd never end
We'd live the life we'd choose


The bishop, who held the hand of Pope Paul VI as he died, said Pope John Paul would be surrounded by those close to him.



Zijn slachtoffers hopelijk ook!



John Magee

John Magee was born on 24th. September 1936 in Newry, Co. Down.
He attended Primary School at CBS Newry and Secondary School at St. Colman's College, Newry.

He entered the Missionary Society of St. Patrick (Kiltegan Fathers) in 1954 and took his B.A. Degree at UCC.
bron He was conferred with an STL from the Lateran University in Rome in 1962.

John Magee was ordained priest for the Kiltegan Fathers on 17th. March 1962 in St. John Lateran Basilica, the Cathedral of Rome.

He spent six years in Africa before returning to Rome in 1968 as Procurator General of the Kiltegans and from 1969 to 1975 was a member of the Congregation for the propagation of the Faith.

He was appointed Private Secretary in succession to Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II until 1982 when he was appointed Master of Pontifical Ceremonies.

Mgr. John Magee was appointed Bishop of Cloyne by Pope John Paul on 17th. February 1987 and was ordained Bishop on March 17th. From July 1994 to March 1996 he also acted as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Limerick.

From 1992 to 1997 Bishop Magee served as a member of the Congregation for Bishops. He is Chairman of the Irish Episcopal Commission for Liturgy.




Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
La La La La La La
La La La La La La
La La La La La La La La La La

Fiets met zijwelletjes.

Hee kleine meid, op je kinderfiets...

(Trouw)

Simonis krijgt fiets van Duitse bisschop religie en filosofie 23 december 2008

UTRECHT (ANP) - Kardinaal Simonis heeft een fiets cadeau gekregen van de Duitse bisschop Gebhard Fürst. Simonis vertelt dinsdag stomverbaasd te zijn over het cadeau van zijn Duitse collega.

De fiets werd eind november bezorgd. ,,Een mooi cadeau met een prachtige brief erbij'', aldus Simonis. De oud-bisschop van Utrecht en Fürst spraken elkaar eind mei tijdens de Katholiekendagen in het Duitse Osnabrück. Aan het ontbijt werd door beide heren gesproken over het geloof, de problemen van deze tijd, maar ook de oorlog.

Simonis vertelde Fürst dat de oorlog diepe wonden in de mensenziel heeft achtergelaten. ,,Ik vertelde dat ik als 12-jarige jongen de machteloze woede voelde toen de Duitsers de fiets van mijn zusje Do inpikten'', aldus Simonis. Volgens de kardinaal maakte het verhaal diepe indruk op de Duitse collega en een half jaar na het gesprek stond de fiets voor de deur.

,,Het is een symbolisch gebaar'', zegt Simonis.
Simonis zal de fiets zelf niet gebruiken. ,,Ook mijn zus Do heeft een fiets'', zegt Simonis. De fiets wordt cadeau gedaan aan iemand die hem goed kan gebruiken.

Kerk weigert 30 slachtoffers seksueel misbruik te vergoeden
Geplaatst door Theo Borgermans op dinsdag 23 december 2008 om 08:35u (Bron: HLN)

BRUSSEL (RKnieuws.net) - De kerk weigert slachtoffers van seksueel geweld door geestelijken te vergoeden. De feiten zijn nochtans erkend en een speciale commissie kende de schadevergoedingen toe, zo meldt Het Laatste Nieuws dinsdag.

"Een slachtoffer van ernstig misbruik heeft recht op gemiddeld 50.000 euro. Maar als er schadebedragen worden genoemd, klappen de daders en hun oversten dicht", klaagt Godelieve Halsberghe in de krant. Zij is de voorzitster van de "interdiocesane commissie voor de behandeling van klachten wegens seksueel misbruik in de pastorale relaties", die de schadevergoedingen toekent.

Hans Geybels, woordvoerder van kardinaal Danneels, zegt dat de commissie haar boekje te buiten gaat. "Ze werd opgericht om te adviseren bij klachten van slachtoffers. Niet om schadevergoedingen op te eisen", luidt het.

Herder: Mag ik hier een vaste burcht voor een ander graven?


Processie 1000 jaar pest en kinderen. Le Saint Cordon, Valenciennes

welkom thuis

Caritas

international

gijzeling en de crisiscaravaan

De incestueuze Kerk: How can I baptise innocent children into a system when they run the risk of being abused and never see justice?

Ex-Cloyne priest joins calls for bishop to resign
By Claire O’Sullivan
Monday, December 22, 2008

A PRIEST who left the Diocese of Cloyne nine years ago over his deep disgust at how child sex allegations were being covered up has joined the growing number of people calling for Bishop John Magee to resign, saying it is in the best interests of the Church.

Father Matthew Ring stood down from the diocese in 1999 due to his “utter disillusionment and deep disgust” with its handling of sex abuse complaints. He called on the Minister for Children, Barry Andrews, to ask the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation to further examine practices in Cloyne.

“I posed the question to Bishop Magee at the time of my resignation: how can I baptise innocent children into a system when they run the risk of being abused and never see justice? What I got was a stoney silence,” he said.

Just last Easter, Fr Ring, from Ballyhea, near Charleville in Co Cork, approached the bishop about a family who had made a complaint against the diocese “but were getting the runaround”.

“I got the same reaction as ever. I pressed upon him that victims of abuse require truth, validation, redress and closure. He went silent.
What has been allowed to happen is vile in the extreme.”

Opposition politicians, victims of alleged abuse in Cloyne and the lay religious organisation Voice of the Faithful have all said Bishop Magee’s position is untenable. However the bishop has said he won’t resign, emphasising the allegations in the report were not proven and he is implementing all of the recommendations.

Fr Ring, 48, now lives in Southampton. “I am still a priest. But I believe the Church has forgotten about its people,” he said.

A spokesman for the Minister for Children said a HSE report being compiled on the handling of abuse claims in Cloyne is being examined by legal teams and could not give a date for its publication.

Flappy. The collective body

Hij was 12/13, en bij de paters op kostschool. Zijn vader overleed toen hij 10 was.
"... als mijn ochtendplas langer dan 13 tellen duurde zou mijn moeder die dag niet overlijden..."
(gesprekspartner in kro openkaartwandeling).

Martin Knippenberg

zuerstdiefusse 1990 2005



2008 "Sguardo periferico e corpo collettivo"






anxiety (from the series 2008
afraid tot print) 1989
tate gallery 2006



uit Roeping

ok, ok. en die heilige ellepijp was dus niet van de heilige Jeroen.

Maar uh, nu we het er toch over hebben:

van wie is die baarmoeder eigenlijk?

Cloyne ondanks Ferns: geheim gehouden misbruik. Church 'cannot be trusted' with the safety of children

Heb je je beschermingsmaatregelen, willen die domme ierse kinderen niet kleuren.THE CATHOLIC Church “cannot be trusted to consistently put the safety of children above all other considerations”, Maeve Lewis, executive director of the One in Four group, said last night.

She was speaking following publication yesterday of a report into alleged incidents of abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne.

Ms Lewis called for an audit of child-protection practices in all Catholic dioceses in Ireland. “The State must intervene and bring the church into line with the rest of society,” she said.

The contents of the report were “devastating” and chronicled “repeated failures by the Bishop of Cloyne to ensure the safety of children in the diocese from sexual abuse,” she continued.

That this happened “as recently as 2006, after the publication of the Ferns Report, must put in question the ability of the Catholic Church to monitor its own child-protection practices,” she said. “We must wonder if other scandals are to come.”

Welcoming publication of the report, Aidan Canavan, National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSC) chairman, said it validated the church’s decision to set up the independent board, which was “satisfied that the current positive working relationship with Cloyne ensures that the safety of children in the area is a top priority”.

NBSC chief executive Ian Elliott, who prepared the report, said yesterday it was “encouraging to note that so much progress has been made since the findings of the review report were accepted and the decision was made to work co-operatively with the national board. We look forward to achieving even more in the months ahead.”

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Barry Andrews “strongly” welcomed publication of the report which, he said, would “help allay concerns that information was being purposely withheld from victims of abuse and the wider public.’’ He intended publishing a HSE report on child protection in Cloyne diocese “at the earliest possible date”.

However, Fine Gael spokesman on children Alan Shatter described the report as “a damning indictment of the failure on the part of church authorities to implement essential child-protection procedures”. It was “incomprehensible that 10 years after publication of the Children First: Child Protection Guidelines and after two decades of revelations of clerical sexual abuse there remains at the highest levels a pervasive culture of cover-up and secrecy,” he said.

He questioned the manner in which Mr Andrews dealt with the report. He asked “why did the Minister suppress the report when his department received it in July?” Did the Minister “meet with the CEO of the NBSC or seek a meeting with the church authorities in the diocese of Cloyne to discuss the report?” he asked.