Meer dan honderd katholieke prominenten roepen de katholieke Kerk op tot een herziening van haar standpunt over kunstmatige contraceptie.

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19-9-2016

Meer dan honderd katholieke prominenten uit de academische en politieke wereld roepen de leiding van de katholieke Kerk op tot een

herziening van haar standpunt over kunstmatige contraceptie. De petitie wordt morgen dinsdag in New York voorgesteld in de rand van 

een bijeenkomst van het United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), het bevolkingsfonds van de Verenigde Naties.

De petitie is een initiatief van een interdisciplinaire werkgroep van deskundigen van het Wijngaard Instituut voor Katholiek Onderzoek,

een onafhankelijke denktank. De oproep is ondertekend door prominenten uit de academische wereld en opinieleiders, onder meer 

bisschoppen, priesters, religieuzen en leidinggevenden van de katholieke zorginstellingen zoals bv de voormalige Ierse president 

Mary McAleese. Uit ons land ondertekenden de professoren Roger Burggraeve, Joseph Selling, John A. Dick en Jan Jans de oproep.

Ethisch betwistbaar verbod

Mary McAleese, president van Ierland van 1997 tot 2011, wijst op de nefaste impact van de leer van de katholieke Kerk over 

anticonceptie. Zo werd ernstige schade toegebracht aan armen, vrouwen, kinderen, relaties, gezondheid, de samenleving en niet het

minst aan de Kerk zelf. Ze herinnert eraan dat zij 1 van de 69 levende kinderen is van een clan met haar moeder en haar broers en zussen, 

die model stonden voor het goede katholieke gezin, dat door de katholieke Kerk zo graag wordt gepromoot in pauselijke documenten 

over het gezin. De afwijzing van kunstmatige bevruchting heeft geen basis in de goddelijke wet. De werkelijkheid van de kleine 

katholieke gezinnen van vandaag bewijst dat het verbod op contraceptie van Humanae Vitae door een grote meerderheid van de 

gezinnen is afgewezen.

Roeping tot verantwoord ouderschap

De ondertekenaars van de petitie schrijven: Het verbod op kunstmatige anticonceptiemiddelen voor gezinsplanning is gebaseerd 

op de overtuiging dat elke daad van seksuele gemeenschap voortplanting als natuurlijke finaliteit heeft. Vanuit dit geloof is de morele 

verplichting afgeleid dat koppels steeds moeten openstaan voor voortplanting. Seksuele gemeenschap heeft echter niet altijd 

voortplanting als gevolg en bijgevolg kan dit niet de finaliteit ervan zijn. Bovendien identificeert de Bijbel enkele moreel waardige 

motieven voor seksuele omgang die niet op voortplanting zijn gericht. Dit wordt bevestigd door de evolutionaire biologie van de menselijke 

voortplanting, net als de sociologie en andere disciplines.

De ondertekenaars wijzen op de noodzaak van gezinsplanning in het verlengde van de eis van verantwoord ouderschap die door Humanae 

Vitae zelf naar voor wordt geschoven. Het Vaticaan moet erkennen dat de beslissing om moderne anticonceptiemiddelen te gebruiken kan 

ingegeven zijn door een verscheidenheid aan moreel waardige motieven. Bijgevolg moeten wij erkennen dat die beslissing verantwoord en ethisch zijn.

Bron: Wijngaard Institute/Irish Times

Oproep van het Wijngaard Instituut voor Katholiek Onderzoek

ipv bessentaart. Of was het nou een advocaatje met slagroom?

Doofpot schade

19-9-2016

Ongeveer veertig slacht offers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk begonnen een burgerlijke rechtszaak tegen de Kerk. Begin dit jaar kregen ze in beroep ongelijk. Walter Van Steenbrugge, de advocaat van de slachtoffers, stapt nu naar het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens.

De slachtoffers wilden dat de kerkelijke oversten aansprakelijk zouden worden gesteld voor wat ze de ‘doofpotschade’ noemen, maar de rechter wees hun zaak af omdat de Heilige Stoel immuniteit heeft. Bovendien wilden niet alle slachtoffers zich kenbaar maken en geen specifieke fouten tegen specifieke bisschoppen aanbrengen.

‘Wij vinden dat artikel 6 en artikel 13 van het mensenrechtenverdrag geschonden zijn. Die gaan over het recht op een eerlijk proces en toegang tot een rechter’, zegt Walter Van Steenbrugge. Hij stapt naar het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens.

‘Onze argumenten zijn nooit inhoudelijk beoordeeld. We hebben niet eens de kans gekregen. Wij vinden dat de Heilige Stoel geen immuniteit geniet, omdat hij niet alleen een staat is, maar ook het hoofd van de katholieke Kerk. En van slachtoffers mag je niet zomaar verwachten dat ze hun intiemste ervaringen naar buiten brengen. Als we gelijk krijgen, hebben de slachtoffers recht op een nieuw proces.’

‘Hoe is het mogelijk dat de Kerk zo lang de andere kant heeft opgekeken? De Mensenrechtenraad van de Verenigde Naties heeft het al gezegd: je hebt schade door het misbruik en schade door het misbruik niet aan te pakken. Die schade is het gevolg van een fout door de kerkelijke oversten waarvoor zij aansprakelijk moeten kunnen worden gesteld.’

‘Ik heb altijd aan de slachtoffers gezegd dat Vlaanderen hier niet klaar voor was en dat we waarschijnlijk naar het Europees Hof zouden moeten trekken. Dat is altijd ons einddoel geweest.’

Mea Culpa heeft al in 2010 de actie ‘Childgate’, opgestart en naar voren gebracht in het Europees parlement maar de kerk heeft haar tentakels omfloerst in al haar maatschappelijke geledingen. Ze zijn er nooit klaar voor. Dat zij het misbruik niet hebben aangepakt door broeders de kerk uit te gooien maar hebben overgeplaatst of gewoon hebben laten zitten tekent hun onwil. Bidden tegen de zonde geloofde men dat Jezus de daders kon laten genezen.

Bron Mea Culpa

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Dutch Heritage Trix en fix de Nederlands Mirakelen; Frankly Speaking A picture is worth a thousand words – the importance of photos, birth certificates and other records to people who grew up in orphanages, missions, children’s homes and foster care

15 - 9 - 2016

A picture is worth a thousand words – the importance of photos, birth certificates and other records to people who grew up in orphanages, missions, children’s homes and foster care

Over the past almost four years, as the Royal Commission has explored the way the Catholic Church and other institutions have responded to child sexual abuse one of the key issues I hear from survivors is the difficulty they have trying to get hold of their personal records.

This is particularly true if they were in foster care, orphanages, children’s homes, missions and other child residential care facilities and unfortunately it seems to be particularly true if the institution was run by the Catholic Church.
Most of us have family photo books, if we put in just a little effort we can scrape together a ‘family tree’ of sorts. Indeed most of us can pick up a phone and call a relative, a parent, a sibling, a cousin. We have a family history that we can reference and, in part, can tell us why we are who we are.

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This is not the case for many kids who were brought up in orphanages, children’s homes, missions and foster care last century or as they are known,

Care Leavers.
Many know nothing about their parents, if they have brothers and sisters, or even where they came from.
Imagine going through life having no understanding or appreciation of your roots

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. Nothing to hold on to, to provide an anchor linking you back to a time and place. We are our history and when we have no understanding of it, I’m told it is like being rudderless, a compass with a needle that just spins round and round.

Recently I was told about a 57-year-old Care Leaver who has never met his parents, any of his five siblings or for that matter seen a photo of them.

He needs his records so he can find his family and find himself, to try to understand why he is different in many ways to his peers. He needs the records to try to make sense of his childhood and to give himself a sense of ‘family’ and an understanding of the ‘why?’ questions in his life.

Having these records is also an important part of abuse survivors being able to tell their stories to the Royal Commission – something all our Church leaders are on the record fully supporting.

But when they ask an institution for their records they hit many a brick wall, many are met with hostility and frustration, delays and excessive costs. And if they are provided with some records they are often so heavily redacted they are next to useless.



To these care leavers, it looks and feels like these same institutions are continuing to put their reputations ahead of the welfare of their former residents. For some it feels like the institution is all too willing to continue to abuse them.



For the life of me I can’t understand why some Catholic organisations in which young kids lived, were cared for or were educated wouldn’t do all they can to help them understand their family history.

If for no other reason – and there are many other reasons – it would put them on the right side of the issue.

Certainly in the past 15 years or so, many Catholic organisations have done a lot to make sure care leavers get better access to their records. But some still have a long way to go.

I’m often asked at the parish meetings I attend and in other places what it is we as Catholics can do to help abuse survivors?

Well here is one simple project – if you have any influence over your local school, parish or any other place were there might be some historical records then let them know these past records should be available, and easily available, to now grown adults.

Many do, but everyone in any institution needs to understand and respect the value of these precious documents, for many they provide the only glimpse into their history. And while these records will sometimes deliver pain and very mixed emotions they are vital in piecing together shattered lives.


Francis Sullivan
CEO Truth Justice and Healing Council
15 September 2016

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"Het verleden is een immens terrein vol stenen, waar velen het liefst 

overheen zouden razen alsof het een autosnelweg was, terwijl 

anderen geduldig van steen naar steen stappen en die alle

maal optillen, omdat ze willen weten wat eronder zit.

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Soms stuiten ze op schorpioenen of duizendpoten, dikke 

witte larven of poppen die op barsten staan, 

maar het is niet uitgesloten dat er tenminste één keer 

een olifant opduikt [...]"

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Man doesn't just survive, Al, he's got to prevail

(naar Desmond Tutu)

Haagse Bluf de Taptoe en Okkie

Oh, oh Den Haag

Motu Proprio Like a loving mother: Na Igreja Católica, o padre respondia a um processo canônico no Vaticano, que ainda não havia sido concluído.

Brasile, suicida in cella prete pedofilo de ‘Il caso Spotlight’

El sacerdote brasileño Bonifacio Buzzi, quien el pasado viernes había sidodetenido por segunda vez por un supuesto abuso sexual de menores, fue hallado sin vida en su celda, al parecer víctima de un suicidio, informaron fuentes oficiales. Buzzi, de 57 años, había ido a prisión en 2007, condenado a 20 años por pederastia, pero obtuvo la libertad condicional siete años después por buena conducta.
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Na Igreja Católica, o padre respondia a um processo canônico no Vaticano, que ainda não havia sido concluído. Segundo a assessoria de imprensa da Arquidiocese de Juiz de Fora (MG), o padre Bonifácio Buzzi foi encaminhado para a comunidade em Três Corações para que se recuperasse e aguardasse a resposta da Igreja sobre o processo de destituição do sacerdócio, aberto pela Diocese de Mariana (MG), junto ao Vaticano.  

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In a pre-emptive strike last Saturday, the newspaper of the Italian bishops launched a furious attack on the film, describing it as "fit only for the dustbin". A front page article in the daily Avvenire said the producers "should bow their heads and ask forgiveness".

The Motu Proprio, dated 4 June, will come into effect from 5 September 2016.

Salvation Army 'failed to protect children' from sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse royal Commission:

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Candice Prosser

12 Sep 2016

The Salvation Army failed to protect children in its institutions between 1940 and 1990 and provided a culture where they felt afraid and powerless to resist ongoing abuse, a royal commission has found.

Key points:

• Salvation Army had no policies or procedures for abuse complaints
• Children physically punished for reporting abuse
• Royal commission finds child sex abuse was effectively concealed

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today released its response into its Salvation Army Southern Territory (TSAS) case study after hearing harrowing stories of physical and sexual abuse and cruelty.

It heard about a "culture of humiliation" and a "culture of punishment and fear" at Salvation Army-run children's homes in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, where children were regularly beaten, degraded and sexually abused.

It examined the Eden Park Boys' Home at Wistow in SA, the Box Hill and Bayswater Boys' homes in Victoria, and the Hollywood Children's Village at Nedlands in WA.

The royal commission found that before 1990 the organisation had no policies or procedures on abuse complaints and had failed to comply with its own orders and regulations governing staff misconduct.

The report concluded that the Salvation Army failed "to take action against staff and officers who were breaching Orders and Regulations prohibiting the mistreatment of children".

The royal commission found TSAS provided a culture in which:

• Children in institutions felt afraid to report sexual abuse
• Children felt powerless to resist the maltreatment
• The staff and officers whose behaviour was in breach of orders and regulations were able to, and did, continue the prohibited behaviour

In a statement, the Salvation Army acknowledged it failed to protect some children entrusted to its care "in the past".

"We are deeply sorry for all those who have suffered from our past actions and inactions and understand that for many people and their families this pain and trauma has been ongoing," it said.

"We will now take the time to study the report and its recommendations and consider the implications for the work of the Salvation Army."

Children physically punished for reporting abuse

The royal commission found that children who were abused at the Salvation Army-run homes were too scared to report the abuse and were threatened, accused of telling lies and sometimes physically harmed when they did.

PHOTO: The Eden Park Boys Home at Mount Barker was examined in the royal commission. (Supplied: Mt Barker Courier)

It said many former residents did not report their complaints of sexual abuse at the time it was occurring because:

• They did not think there was anyone to tell
• They did not think they would be believed
• They were threatened with physical harm
• When they did attempt to report the sexual abuse, they were accused of telling lies.

"We are also satisfied that some former residents were physically punished after telling officers or employees of the Salvation Army about their complaints of sexual abuse and this stopped them from disclosing any further incidents of sexual abuse," the report said.

Broader compensation claim review recommended

The royal commission heard the Salvation Army was conducting a review into 418 compensation claims from survivors of child sexual abuse that averaged about $40,000 per claim.

It heard the review was designed to identity "outliers and inconsistencies" in payments and prioritise claimants who were not legally represented until a national redress scheme was established.

The royal commission recommended it look back at compensation payouts to focus on all claims settled when the organisation was using legal technicalities as defences.

A spokesperson for the Salvation Army said all previously settled claims were included in the review, which "was conducted by an independent legal team".

He said a report of that review had been lodged with the royal commission.

The spokesperson said top-up payments of varying amounts were recommended in less than 20 per cent of those claims.

Salvation Army 'effectively' concealed child sexual abuse

The royal commission heard that in 2013, after a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, the Salvation Army instructed Trevor Walker from its professional standards unit to investigate the organisation's historical responses to child sexual abuse.

The resulting report found the Salvation Army did not take steps to conceal claims of child sexual abuse or protect alleged perpetrators.

The royal commission differed from that conclusion.

It said Salvation Army Southern Territorial Commander Commissioner Floyd Tidd agreed in evidence that TSAS members received complaints of child sexual abuse that were not passed on to the police.

"Commissioner Tidd agreed that, in this way, the TSAS had inadvertently taken steps to conceal child sexual abuse and protect alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse," the report said.

"TSAS says that, while Commissioner Tidd agreed that TSAS had not always reported child sexual abuse and admitted that the failure to report abuse may have had the effect of protecting alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse, he was clear that TSAS's conduct was not, in his view, 'concealment' in the sense of the wilful covering-up of misconduct."

The royal commission accepted that in the absence of policy or procedure, TSAS "did not wilfully conceal allegations of child sexual abuse".

"However, as appropriately conceded by Commissioner Tidd, by not reporting allegations of child sexual abuse to the police it had the effect of concealing child sexual abuse and protecting the alleged perpetrator.

"In this way, we differ from the conclusion reached in Mr Walker's report."

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Report into Salvation Army's Southern Territory released # 33

12 September, 2016

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The Royal Commission’s report into Case Study 33 - The response of The Salvation Army (Southern Territory) to allegations of child sexual abuse at children’s homes that it operated, was released today.

The report follows a public hearing held in Adelaide, which examined the experiences of former child residents, as well as the response of The Salvation Army (Southern Territory) (TSAS) to allegations of child sexual abuse of former residents of boy’s homes in Eden Park (SA), Box Hill and Bayswater (Victoria) and Nedlands (WA).

The Royal Commission heard evidence from 12 former residents of these institutions who spoke of physical and sexual abuse by officers and employees of TSAS, and other residents, that they suffered while they lived at the institutions.

TSAS operated 55 separate children’s homes between 1894 and 1998. TSAS estimates that more than 3,000 officers and employees were engaged to work at the homes over that period. Approximately 15,000 to 17,000 children passed through the homes operated by TSAS.

The Royal Commission found that many former residents of the institutions run by TSAS did not report their complaints of sexual abuse at the time it was occurring because they did not think there was anyone to tell, they did not think they would be believed or they were threatened with physical harm.

The Royal Commission also determined that some former residents were physically punished after telling officers or employees of The Salvation Army about their complaints of sexual abuse.

The Royal Commission found that before 1990, The Salvation Army had no policies or procedures which governed how to handle and respond to complaints of sexual abuse received in respect of its institutions.

However, the Royal Commission notes that at least from 1895, the Orders and Regulations for Soldiers of The Salvation Army (and its ancillary volumes), provide different bases for disciplinary action against an officer, soldier or employee of The Salvation Army for any physical or sexual abuse of a child within the care of The Salvation Army.

The Royal Commission concludes that in failing to take action against its staff and officers who were breaching Orders and Regulations prohibiting the mistreatment of children, TSAS provided a culture in the institutions in which staff and officers were able to continue their prohibited behaviour.

The Royal Commission heard that from 1995 through to 2014, TSAS had received a total of 418 claims and paid approximately $18 million to former residents of their institutions. The Royal Commission found that in the resolution of claims were instances in which TSAS relied on technical legal defences, statutes of limitations and vicarious liability principles.

TSAS has since reviewed settled claims, prioritising cases where claimants were not represented and cases where new factual material has come to light after a claim was settled. 

The Royal Commission recommends that represented claimants who settled their claims at a time when TSAS relied on technical defences should be included in the review. 

Read the full report.

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Transcript (Day 207): 12 September

Opening address

Church leaders remained silent about the crimes of Father J.J. Farrell — background article

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Father F.

IN MEMORY OF DAMIAN JURD AND DANIEL POWELL


Unholy Silence   Four corners

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Frankly speaking: Newcastle hearing shows we've got a long way to go

7 September 2016

We are presently involved in the 13th case study involving the Catholic Church in this Royal Commission. Case Study 43 is looking at the response of church authorities in the Maitland Newcastle region to allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy and religious.

The detailed testimonies from abuse survivors once again have been shocking, confronting and shameful.

The mere fact that middle aged men courageously retold their stories in a hushed and shocked court room was poignant enough.

That their stories were just another set of entries into the sordid history of the sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church adds to the corrosive impact this scandal has had on the credibility of the Church.

Just as with other churches with histories of child abuse, the fact that it did occur and that it was mishandled, even covered up, severed the sacred trust these churches held with the community.

Time and time again the integrity of Catholic Church entities, be they dioceses or religious orders, has been called into question.

When actions don't match rhetoric credibility is the casualty.

The "trust us" test is lost.

Sadly this is now such a familiar scenario as each case study has revealed. Even though the events in question occurred decades ago, their impact on the moral character of the Church has had a long-term impact. Whether the issue is sexual ethics, justice or even the sanctity of marriage, the Church's pronouncements are shadowed by the events portrayed in the Royal Commission. 

Until the community perceives that the Church has truly atoned for this scandal, much of what it says will fall on deaf ears.

This is demoralising for all those who toil in Catholic organisations to deliver essential services in the community.

That said there is a distinction between the Church services and ministries of today and how some were conducted in the past. Catholic schools, hospitals, welfare services go to great lengths to create safe environments for children. In many cases they are at the forefront of best practice in this area. This goes some way towards restoring trust in the community.

However the Church leadership needs to keep pushing the envelope to demonstrate that the culture that led to the scandal is being addressed and remedied. A challenge of the highest proportion.

Also this week, I see Bishop Paul Bird in Ballarat has announced that the estate of the former bishop Ronald Mulkearns, which was left to the Diocese, will all go to supporting victims of abuse. The estate is reported to be valued in the order of $2million. This is a welcome announcement and will, hopefully, mean that abuse survivors in Ballarat will have greater access to pastoral and other services offered by the Diocese and also receive continuing compensation.

I’ll take this opportunity to correct last week’s blog in which I listed a number of dioceses that have been included in Royal Commission hearings. Townsville was included in that list, but has not been the subject of a Royal Commission hearing.

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Armidale Catholic priest John Joseph Farrell charged with child sexual abuse

7.30 

By Andy Park

The charges relate to alleged assaults against two boys, one at Gunnedah in 1975, about 85 kilometres west of Tamworth in northern New South Wales, and the other at Narrabri in 1983, about 175 kilometres north-west of Tamworth.Former Armidale Catholic priest John Joseph Farrell has been charged with nine counts of child sexual abuse.

Farrell, 62, was charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent, four counts of indecent assault, and buggery.

Some of the ex-officio indictments were first laid 28 years ago, but the judge dismissed the account of one of the alleged victims, Damian Jurd, in favour of Farrell at a committal hearing.

Mr Jurd later took his own life.

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His mother, Claire Jurd, told 7.30 she was in shock at the news Farrell will again face the allegations.

The church's management of Farrell, case study 44, will be investigated by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse over two weeks, starting on Monday.

The criminal case will go to trial from April 10, 2017 at Sydney District Court.

A NSW Police statement said the charges were laid following investigations from Strike Force Glenroe detectives.

"Investigations are ongoing," a NSW Police statement said.

The strike force was formed in July 2012 to investigate alleged historical child sexual assault offences committed by a former priest.

The strike force includes detectives from the Sex Crimes Squad and the New England and Barwon local area commands.