I would like to know... those victimes of the 1930 and 40's.

I would like to know who is representing the victims of the 1930s and 40s? Sadly many have gone to their graves too ashamed, fearful of talking and fearful of displaying their lack of education and understanding of the outside world.

I’ve always considered myself fortunate in being able to block out my past.
It helped to have been addressed by an incorrect name during my ’stay’ in State/Church custody. I ‘left the boy with the other name locked in Artane’.

In 2006 I decided to write the story of what I believed to be a complete childhood spent in these ’schools’.

Imagine my shock on learning that I had a life before I ‘entered’ my first Industrial School. Charged at Dublin DC as a two year old in 1934 by a Judge Cussen, with ‘Reaciving Alms’, I was sentenced to be detained till age 16. No family member visited me during the 14 years.

On my release there was some confusion as I was being turned over to the custody of a complete strange woman; my Mother! In answer to her question, "What’s your name?" Of course I replied with the name I’d always been known.
"Are you sure you have the correct boy" She asked of the Brother. He in turn asked me my number which confirmed I was the correct boy.
As a well trained object I accepted my new name.

She had no place for me to stay, and and armed with the good trade I laboured at in Artane: there was no call for poultry farmers in the center of Dublin City.
I ran away with-in days never to see or have contact with her again.

Released in Oct ‘47 I tracked down my Father.
He had built himself a new life with a new woman with whom he fathered 5 children. I also found two sister’s.

By the end of 1948 I left Ireland for good and kept a loose contact with just the one sister. The reason I traced the father was to obtain his signature as my ‘guardian’.
It was a requirement join the British Forces as a 17 year old. It would be hard for some people to understand that when I say that I felt no bitterness towards any member of my family. There was just no feeling.

Some 40 years later I managed to locate my younger sister and invited both sisters to our large country home. It was the first meeting since the break-up of the family in 1934.

It proved a very painful get together. I tried to discover what had happened all those years earlier. Neither would talk; just crying, pleading and begging me to stop asking questions. The frustration proved too much for me to handle. My wife and I had been through a deep tragedy. Upset, I stormed out and the younger sister took her secret to her grave never telling her children of her past in an Industrial School.

My older sister who lives alone in Ireland, now around 85yrs old, could not and still can not, bring herself to speak of the past. I hear from her once or twice a year.

My wife passed away 12/12/07 and only now am trying to find out who I am! What I’ve uncovered so far, leaves me shocked and appalled and sadly I’ve come to understand why no one wished to revisit the past.

It appears that I had three brothers, one five years younger than I. Two of them I understand are dead, but I await death certificates. The other I suspect I’ll never learn anything.

One thing I’ve learned of the Irish State/Church then is, that by anyone’s standards it was sick, evil and cruel.
I’ve had an exceptional life and achieved goals beyond many peoples wildest dreams.
There was no way I was going to let those bastards win!
October 14th, 2009

I left Ireland in early 1949 never to return. My 'Ultimate Disposal' from the notorious Artane Industrial School I discovered in 2006 was the day before my 16th birthday (never knew my birthday). The most important information I learned through the Freedom of Information Act was the reason for my incarceration was I was a criminal! At Dublin DC in 1934 as a two year old I was charged with begging and sentenced to be detained for 14 years. At age 10, I was put to work making and repairing clothing and at 14 worked full time on the poultry farm 7 day a week 365 days a year. All those years I had no visitors. The stigma and shame of having a child in one of those places wasn't something one wished to be associated with. I was known as Charlie and my number was 11,536. At 17 I first discovered the difference between sexes! Once out of Ireland I left Charlie behind and tried to blank out all the abuses. I've just completed a book about my life that will shock and I hope inspire some people.
20/5/2009

Ruling on Dublin child sex abuse report ready

Irish Times
October 14, 2009
PATSY McGARRY
Religious Affairs Correspondent

THE HIGH Court is to deliver its reserved judgment tomorrow morning on what content of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation report may be published at this time.

The judgment will be delivered in public and follows in camera proceedings on the matter that took place on October 1st and 2nd last.

The report followed an investigation by the commission into how clerical child sex abuse allegations involving a sample of 46 priests were handled by Catholic Church authorities in Dublin between January 1st, 1975, and April 30th, 2004. Some of the cases involve men facing child-abuse charges.

Under section 38 of the the Commission of Investigation Act 2004, the Minister for Justice must seek directions from the High Court if it is felt publication of a commission report might prejudice criminal proceedings, pending or in progress.

On receipt of the report last July, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern referred it to the Attorney General who, in turn, advised that it be referred to the High Court. In doing so the Minister said that he was anxious the matters it dealt with were “put into the public domain as quickly as possible”.

He expressed concern that nothing should be done that would harm the prospects of perpetrators of abuse being brought to justice.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said last week his “personal preference would be for the report to come out quickly and in its integrity because, reading it in its integrity, the question emerges better”.

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Cloyne: Women claim clerical sex abuse

Last December, the chief executive of the National Board for Safeguarding Children, Ian Elliott, criticised child-protection practices in the Diocese of Cloyne as inadequate and dangerous in that they potentially exposed vulnerable children to further harm.

Mr Elliott said meetings held by the diocesan authorities to examine allegations of sexual abuse by five people against two priests in the diocese in 2004 and 2005 appeared to be more “focused on the needs of the accused priest” than addressing the needs of the children.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Irish Times
Two complaints of assaults by Cork priests in 1980s were reported to Gardaí this year, writes Southern Correspondent, BARRY ROCHE

GARDAÍ IN Co Cork have sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following an investigation into complaints of clerical sexual abuse against two priests in the Diocese of Cloyne more than 20 years ago.

Two women in their 40s came forward independently this year and complained that they were sexually assaulted by two priests in the diocese in the late 1980s when they were both aged 17.

One woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by both priests while visiting the parochial house that the two men shared; the second woman alleged she was assaulted by one of the priests while visiting the same house.

The complaint made by one woman against one of the priests – who is now in his 70s and retired – brings to six the number of complaints that have been made against him by six different women over the last four years.

The first five of these complaints were investigated by gardaí and five separate files were prepared and sent to the DPP. However, in all five cases the DPP directed that there should be no prosecution.

The priest, who had attended voluntarily at a Garda station in Co Cork for interview in relation to some of the earlier complaints, again attended at the station voluntarily last month and was questioned about the most recent complaints.

The second priest, who is in his 50s, had not been the subject of complaints previously, and he stood down from pastoral duties this year when he learned that allegations of sexual assault had been made against him.

This priest also attended voluntarily at the same Garda station last month for interview by detectives, who questioned him about the complaints of sexual assault against him by the two women.

The Diocese of Cloyne issued a statement at the time he stood down saying he had agreed to go on administrative leave.

The diocese stressed in its statement that its focus was on child protection, and the complaint was being dealt with “in accordance with the standards and guidance document Safeguarding Children of the National Board for Safeguarding Children”.

Last December, the chief executive of the National Board for Safeguarding Children, Ian Elliott, criticised child-protection practices in the Diocese of Cloyne as inadequate and dangerous in that they potentially exposed vulnerable children to further harm.

Mr Elliott said meetings held by the diocesan authorities to examine allegations of sexual abuse by five people against two priests in the diocese in 2004 and 2005 appeared to be more “focused on the needs of the accused priest” than addressing the needs of the children.

Mr Elliott’s criticism was based on an examination of how the diocese handled complaints of sexual abuse made against two priests whom he identified as Fr A, who was accused of abusing a young boy; and Fr B, who was separately accused of abusing three young girls.

Can turtles fly? De ramp na de ramp.

BISHOP JAN OZGA OF DOUME-ABONG' MBANG, CAMEROON. "I believe it is extremely important that this Second Synod for Africa should go through the African family to produce the desired fruits. Because the formation of a new culture of reconciliation, justice and peace is a task for the family before being a task for society. If these three values take root and find foundation and meaning within the family, their culture could spread to all levels of African society. ... Justice is the just appreciation, recognition and respect for the rights and merits of each person. The family is called to teach true justice which is the only way to achieve respect for individual human dignity".



AN UNPRECEDENTED meeting yesterday between the Irish Bishops’ Conference and representatives of abuse victims has been described as a “gigantic step forward” by Michael O’Brien of the Right to Peace group.
Catholic primate Cardinal Seán Brady described the meeting in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, as “the first step of many steps”.

The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, said “it was the most significant meeting I have ever attended in that room. It was extraordinary”.

It was “a very momentous, very historic occasion”, John Kelly of Soca Ireland (Survivors of Child Abuse) said.

The meeting, held at the request of former residents’ groups, began at 10am yesterday and ended at approximately 12.45pm.

Afterwards Mr Kelly, Mr O’Brien, Tom Hayes of the Alliance group and Christy Heaphy of the Cork-based Right of Place, met the media accompanied by Cardinal Brady and Archbishop Martin.

Mr O’Brien said they requested that the bishops set up a subcommittee to begin a dialogue with the groups as they moved towards closure on the issue.

They had also requested the setting up of a benevolent fund by the bishops to help people who may have received redress but who still needed help in areas such as education and counselling.

They had also asked the bishops to make representations to the Taoiseach to speed up dealings with religious congregations towards the setting up of a new trust, he said.

Mr Kelly explained that they had given a full account of their experiences to the bishops, which must have been “very hard to listen to”.

They asked that the Catholic Church as a whole be more responsive to survivors, he said.

They could have done more in the past, he said, as they had influence and a moral responsibility. All groups representing former residents of the institutions would be involved in an ongoing dialogue with the bishops, he said.

Mr Hayes said the four groups at yesterday’s meeting had a mandate to attend as they represented a majority of survivors.

Archbishop Martin said there had been “particularly good” discussions at the meeting about survivors in England, many of whom were old and homeless. They discussed how resources might be made available to them, he said.

However, there had been no discussion about compensation for women who had been in Magdalen institutions he said.

Mr O’Brien said the next step would be a meeting with religious congregations. The groups had already met representatives of Faoiseamh – the helpline set up by the Conference of Religious of Ireland.

Meanwhile, Christine Buckley, Bernadette Fahy and Carmel McDonnell Byrne of the Aislinn group had a separate meeting with Archbishop Martin in Drumcondra, Dublin, last night.

Ms Buckley said she had not known about yesterday’s meeting in Maynooth and asked to meet Archbishop Martin as soon as she heard about it.

Similar matters to those in Maynooth were discussed at last night’s meeting.

Archbishop Martin said yesterday that he had no indication of when the Dublin commission report into clerical sex abuse in the archdiocese might be published.

It emerged later yesterday that, although December 8th is the final date for delivery of a reserved judgment by the High Court on what parts of the report might be published without prejudicing forthcoming criminal trials, the judgment may be delivered sooner and possibly in early November.

It is believed likely that the report may have to redrafted. Many now doubt that it will be published this year.

Meanwhile, it is expected that the investigation element of the Cloyne inquiry will be completed by the end of this year.

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Friday, October 9, 2009
Irish Times
OLIVIA KELLY

Abuse groups who met bishops accused of 'solo run'
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Tom Hayes, of the Alliance group, said the four organisations had a mandate to attend the meeting as they represented a majority of survivors.

However, Mick Waters, founder of Soca UK, which works with victims of abuse in Ireland who now live in Britain, and Paddy Doyle, author of The God Squad, said yesterday that the four groups did not have a mandate to speak for survivors and should not have met with the bishops.

Some 12 groups had met the Government last June, where it was agreed the Government would act as brokers in a deal with Cori, representing religious orders, in relation to a new restitution fund, Mr Waters said.

“Approximately 12 groups met with members of the Cabinet. It is wrong for any four people to go on a solo run and make a statement that they have a mandate to speak for survivors.”

No meeting should have taken place with the bishops until after the religious orders had finally revealed their assets and until after the Dublin commission report into clerical sex abuse had been published, Mr Doyle said.....rest

Survivors of institutional abuse have met with Bishops in Maynooth.

Church considers compensation rise
(UKPA) –

Senior Catholic clerics are to consider increasing compensation for survivors of abuse in church-run institutions, it has emerged.

Cardinal Sean Brady revealed a committee would be set up to look at offering further redress to victims who suffered at the hands of nuns and priests in industrial schools and orphanages.

The head of the Church in Ireland spoke out after four campaigners addressed the Bishops' Conference in Maynooth over the Ryan Report, which revealed widespread physical and sexual abuse.


Wednesday, 7 October 2009 19:48
The meeting took place at the invitation of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy at their scheduled Autumn conference in Maynooth.

Four abuse survivors discussed the fallout of the Ryan Report with the Bishops and the situation in which abuse victims now find themselves.

Addressing the Bishops conference, survivor John Kelly said the Catholic Church had refused to accept moral responsibility for what happened in religious institutions.

He said there was a thundering silence on the part of the hierarchy when mention of it making contributions to the redress scheme is raised.

The Bishops conference was told by survivors that it is now time for the Church to accept its past failings and meet its moral responsibility to its victims.

The survivors told the Bishops that it should make a meaningful contribution to the redress scheme to help draw a line under what they called the unhappy chapter in Ireland's common history.

The meeting was the first such encounter between survivors of institutional abuse and the Bishops.

* * * * *

Representatives of abuse victims met the Irish Bishops Conference for discussions that lasted over three and a half hours at Maynooth this morning.

The meeting took place at the request of the victims and was described as a “gigantic step forward” by Michael O’Brien of the Right to Peace group which took part in the talks.

Also attending the meeting were John Kelly of Soca Ireland, Tom Hayes of the Alliance group and Christie Heathy of Cork-based Right to Place group.

Accompanied by the Catholic Primate Cardinal Sean Brady and the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, they met members of the media after the talks to give an account of what took place.

Cardinal Brady explained that initial contacts with the bishops had been made during the summer and that these led to today’s meeting. He said it was the first step of many steps and he thanked them for giving their vision of the way forward.

Michael O’Brien said they had requested the bishops set up a sub-committee to begin a dialogue with the groups as they moved towards closure on the issue.

He said they had requested the setting up of a benevolent fund to help people who had already received redress in areas such as education and counselling and they asked the bishops to make representations to the Taoiseach to hurry up ongoing procedures with the religious congregations towards the setting up of a new trust.

John Kelly commented that they had given a full account of their experiences to the bishops, which he said must have been “very hard to listen to”. He said they had asked the Catholic Church as a whole to be more responsive to survivors and said they could have done more in the past as they had influence and a moral responsibility.

He also said that all representative groups of survivors would be involved in the ongoing process with the bishops.

Tom Hayes of Alliance said the four representatives had a mandate to be at the meeting there in that they represented a majority of the survivors. He described the meeting as an “historic day for all of us survivors and bishops together”.

Archbishop Martin said that for him it was “the most significant meeting I have ever attended in that room – it was extraordinary.”

He also said there had been “particularly good” discussions about survivors in England many of whom were old and homeless and they discussed how resources could be made available to help them.

Mr O’Brien said that today’s meeting was the first in a process.

The next step would be a meeting they hoped to have with religious congregations and he said they had already met with representatives of Faoiseamh - the helpline set up by the Conference of Religious of Ireland.

De priesters met hepatitus, tiny little secrets: zaligverklaringen flink uitgebreid. Bridgeport Diocese Loses Bid to Keep Sex-Abuse Records Sealed

Hier basis der stilte. De Angel is geland.

'Dit is een kleine stap voor de mens, maar een reuze sprong voor de mensheid.'

Polanski the Sequel Is It Going to Happen again? Yeah, of course. Priests will sin.

Veroordeelde pedofiel mag niet meer in Eindhoven wonen
Elsevier dinsdag 6 oktober 2009

PvdA-burgemeester Rob van Gijzel van Eindhoven wil niet dat een veroordeelde pedofiel terugkeert in de stad. Van Gijzel weert de pedo op basis van de Gemeentewet. De pedoseksueel is woedend en stapt naar de rechter: 'Ik heb het recht om terug te keren.'

Pedofiel in Eindhoven wordt de stad uitgezet
Dat meldt de Volkskrant. Het is voor het eerst dat een pedofiel na zijn vrijlating niet mag terugkeren in zijn woonplaats.
Van Gijzel handelt op grond van artikel 172 in de Gemeentewet, waarin staat dat hij de bevoegdheid heeft verstoring van de openbare orde te voorkomen.

Mayor wants bishop removed from town as police review old homosexual child-porn allegation October 05, 2009
CatholicCulture.org

bron: CBC News 4-10-2009

As police review a decades-old allegation of child pornography against Bishop Raymond Lahey-- an allegation that involved the possession of pornographic pictures of teenage boys-- the mayor of the town in which the prelate has been ordered to reside is encouraging residents to complain so that the bishop will be sent elsewhere

Diocese won't pay Lahey's legal bills
The archbishop of Halifax says the diocese of Antigonish will not pay the legal bills of a Nova Scotia bishop facing child pornography charges.

In a statement released Monday, Halifax Archbishop Anthony Mancini, who is overseeing the Antigonish diocese, said Bishop Raymond Lahey has not asked for any financial help.

"If that request were made, it would be declined by the diocese," he said.

Marilyn Sweet, a spokeswoman for the Halifax archdiocese, said the decision was made Monday after church officials met with diocese lawyers. She said each diocese has its own protocols for dealing with legal matters.

Lahey's case has raised questions among parishioners, with some saying he should have to fight the charges on his own

A catalogue of cruelty is finally seeping out of the system that was meant to care for vulnerable children in Northern Ireland.

BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight reveals the untold story of abuse in homes run by an order of nuns - and searches for the answers that still elude former residents.

Years after abuse became a global scandal for the Catholic Church - and a legal issue costing millions of pounds - the problem within Northern Ireland remained locked in the past.

Earlier this year, the Ryan Commission revealed endemic abuse in children's institutions in the Republic. Legal settlements have been made in America, Australia and other countries.

But some former residents of homes run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Belfast and Londonderry have told Spotlight they are still waiting for an adequate response from either church or state.

Reporter Darragh MacIntyre hears allegations of routine physical punishment and emotional cruelty.

And the programme hears a representative of the order respond publicly for the first time to the allegations in Northern Ireland.

Former resident John McCourt from Derry describes being beaten with a towel rail.

"It wasn't about looking after children," he says.

"It was about physically making children toe the line."

The programme reveals that Ireland's most notorious paedophile, Fr Brendan Smyth, regularly preyed on children in the Nazareth institutions.

For decades, the Sisters of Nazareth were the cornerstone of care for Catholic children who needed residential care.

In Northern Ireland, 14,000 children went through their system.

Nazareth institutions around the world were founded on the ideal that children should be loved like the infant Jesus. But for many residents, the reality was different.

"For the nuns to put the love of Jesus in you…" says Margaret McGuckin. "No, I just felt like a monster and unwanted alien.

"There was no affection in there whatsoever - it was just coldness and darkness."

Professor Deirdre Heenan, an expert on child care at the time the Sisters of Nazareth were running their homes, says the nuns were acting "in the name of religion".

'For your own good'

She says they would tell children "we are trying to beat the devil out of you, we are trying to cleanse your soul".

"The whole idea behind the religious orders would have been that this is actually for your own good," she says.

But she says abuse was not confined to the Catholic homes.

"What we do know from the official reports is that physical violence and emotional deprivation were endemic within these homes," Professor Heenan says.

"So I don't think we can single out the nuns and say that this only happened in this type of institution."

The Sisters of Nazareth hold assets worth tens of millions of pounds, but they have never admitted responsibility for the abuse in their homes.

But thanks to the Ryan Report, former Nazareth residents in the Republic got official recognition that the abuse occurred.

They can also look for an apology and compensation through the Irish redress scheme.

But on this side of the border, former residents are still waiting.

One, Tony Hanna, tells Spotlight: "I just want a better future and an apology for what happened."

Spotlight is on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday 6 October at 2240 GMT

bishops fingers; Where is Bishop Raymond Lahey? Polanski the Sequel.

For the information of the Press and any other inquirers.

Bishop Raymond Lahey is not in residence here. The press seems to have anticipated something that may have been discussed in the court proceedings but was not definitively decided upon. Ultimately some other arrangement has been made for Bishop Lahey's residence. We are not expecting him coming to reside here.
The Crown Prosecution Service never formally requested my consent to Bishop Lahey's coming here, and I am not expecting them to do so.

Bede Stockill
Abbot
Sunday 4 October 2009 AM.

"Nobody wants him here, he'd have to have brothers or sisters or family that he could go stay with; I'm pretty sure they've got room in the Vatican in Rome," said (burgemeester) LeBlanc.

Stockill said RCMP officers have visited the monastery to check in on Lahey but haven't been back since.

He said if Lahey were to turn up he would be welcomed into the sanctuary.

"Yes we will, but I'm not expecting him to (turn up)," said Stockell.

A sexual-abuse survivor told N.L. church officials in the 1980s that he had seen pornography at the home of Bishop Raymond Lahey, who's now facing child-porn charges, the Catholic archbishop of St. John's said Monday.

Archbishop Martin Currie said former Portugal Cove, N.L., priest Kevin Molloy contacted him last week to say that in 1989, Shane Earle told Molloy that he had seen pornography in Lahey's home.

At the time, Lahey was the bishop for St. George's diocese in western Newfoundland. In 2003 he moved to Nova Scotia to head the diocese of Antigonish.

"I asked him what he did with [that information], and Father Molloy mentioned that he had taken it to the appropriate authorities. In this case, it would have been Archbishop [Alphonsus] Penney," Currie said.

Now, what protected uncle Jim under the bridge? Newfoundland priest facing sex charges found dead

N.L. priest facing sex charges found dead

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
9:57 PM NT

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Rev. Des McGrath, one of the founders of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW), has been found dead, just a day after failing to appear in a Newfoundland and Labrador court to face sex charges.

RCMP said the body of McGrath, 74, was found in his garage in the western Newfoundland community of Stephenville on Tuesday. The Mounties did not release further details.

The well-known Roman Catholic priest also ran as a candidate for the NDP in the district of Random-Burin-St. Georges in the 2004 federal election, coming in second.

FFAW president Earle McCurdy said his friend and mentor was inspired by the centuries-old oppression of fishers and the grinding poverty of rural communities.

McCurdy said McGrath gave dignity to ordinary people and "had a vision for how outport society could be better than what it had been for the people who lived there."

"His whole life was dedicated to that," McCurdy said.

While tributes poured in for the work McGrath did, his friends and supporters expressed shock over the revelation that McGrath was charged last month with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy in 1982. The allegations stem from when McGrath was the parish priest in Lourdes on the Port au Port Peninsula on Newfoundland's west coast.

There is a publication ban on the name of the alleged victim, who is now an adult.

"Two policemen came to my door, a sergeant and a lieutenant. They had a real attitude problem and really tried to intimidate me. They told me they wanted to talk to me about Mount Cashel. I told them to get the hell out of my driveway.
I didn't want anything to do with them."
For Earle, the officers'mention of Mount Cashel reminded him of a trip he'd made to the police station in 1975.
That's when he first confided in a police officer about what was happening at the orphange.
"I was only 11 or 12 back then", he says.
"The police didn't help me then and I damn well didn't want them showing up at my door nearly 15 years later. I just didn't want to hear the name Mount Cashel ever again".

A day or two later, the lieutenant returned.
This time an officer who introduced himself as Constable Mark Wall accompanied him. The constable wasn't much older than Earle. While the senior officer listened, Wall did the talking.
Mark presented himself in a different manner all together," Earle recalls.
He said, "Hi, Billy, I'd like to have a talk with you about Mount Cashel, but if you don't want to that's OK."

did Lehay make a deal with the Canadian court system, Was Lehay rewarded for deals with government officials, Catholic hierarchies cover up?

Let's make a deal -- let's finally protect children instead of dysfunctional sex freaks

October 3,
Pittsburgh Independent Examiner
Mike Ference

My last examiner article was not meant to be prophetic. I guess after almost 20 years of investigating dysfunctional sex freaks like Raymond Lahey, a 69-year-old Roman Catholic Bishop who was recently released on $9,000 bail, charged with possessing and importing child pornography, maybe it just comes with the territory.

I thought some would view my ranting and raving about how law enforcement and elected officials must choose to look the other way, rather than confront pious and pathetic Catholic Church leaders when clerics are caught or suspected of heinous crimes against innocent children. In the case of Bishop Lahey, maybe his lust for child pornography was hidden with similar skills displayed on the game show “Let’s Make A Deal,” where contestants could bargain and negotiate their way through a series of propositions hoping to win a grand prize behind door number one, two or three.

It’s very possible that Canadian police may have been aware of Lahey’s interest in child pornography as early as 1989 – albeit, in 1989 child pornography was not a crime in Canada.

CBS News reported that a former resident of the infamous Mount Cashel orphanage told police 20 years ago that he had seen child pornography in Lahey’s home, in the St. John’s suburb of Mount Pearl. Two brothers Billy and Shane Earle testified at Newfoundland and Labrador’s Hughes inquiry into the Mount Cashel orphanage, where the two boys had suffered abuse.

CBS News quoted from an email Earle had sent to his brother Billy: “During the investigation in 1989 I did reveal to police that during a visit to Father Raymond Lahey’s house in Mount Pearl, I found catalogs of child pornography addressed to Ray Lehay. The pictures were of teen boys sexually aroused.”

If the report is accurate, did Lehay play let’s make a deal with the Canadian court system to keep the information hushed up? Was Lehay rewarded with a bishop post because of his skills in parleying deals with government officials to cover up sex abuse crimes against innocent children? Did Lehay help Catholic hierarchy cover-up other clergy abuse crimes? If so, how many other victims went without help? How many resorted to drugs or alcohol? How many victims committed suicide?

We have to ask these questions. Catholic church hierarchy have had decades – if not centuries – to fess up to dysfunctional sex freaks parading around as priests, bishops, cardinals – and yes, even popes. Instead, God’s most precious commodity – innocent children – are nothing more than bargaining chips for whatever prizes the Catholic church doles out to protect dysfunctional sex freaks. Contestants can win cash and other prizes; scholarships to Catholic universities and colleges for sons and daughters; lucrative distribution contracts with Catholic institutions; career advancement and job placement with corrupt political cronies; the list goes on and on. And so do the crimes and the cover-ups

The struggle continues as the “congregation” of victims continues to grow.

Raymond Lahey

In an emotional pastoral letter read to all the Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Halifax this weekend, Archbishop Anthony Mancini responded in the strongest possible language yet to the news that Bishop Raymond Lahey was arrested for the possession and importation of child pornography last week.

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Mount Cashel. Not out of sight. Not out of mind! Raymond Lahey; Canada.

THANK YOU!

Prayer for those contemplating suicide.

God of love and mercy, grant me strength to overcome my feelings of loneliness and unhapiness.


Grant me courage to walk away from this abyss of pain and desperation.

Grant me light to see your love and kindness to guide me to inner peace.

Grant me your presence in my life so that I may know you are always by my side.

God, grant me my life, now and evermore.

Iers ja

Ierland zei Ja op Europa, ondanks oproep paus in Tjechie.

Schoolstrijd en gemiste historische kans voor Mgr. Eijk

VATICAANSTAD (RKnieuws.net) - Paus Benedictus XVI heeft vandaag de geloofsbrieven ontvangen van de nieuwe ambassadeurs bij de H. Stoel van de Filipijnen, Nederland en de VS.

Het gaat respectievelijk om Mercedes Arrastia Tuason, Henriette Johanna Cornelia Maria van Lynden- Leijten én Miguel Humberto Dias.

Paus Benedictus toonde zich in een gelegenheidstoespraak verheugd over het feit dat de Nederlandse regering het belang van de godsdienst in de samenleving erkent maar toonde zich

kritisch over over de wettige status van alternatieve samenlevingsvormen in Nederland.

"While some of the Dutch population would declare itself agnostic or even atheist", said the Pope in his address to the ambassador from the Netherlands, "more than half professes Christianity, and the growing numbers of immigrants who follow other religious traditions make it more necessary than ever for civil authorities to acknowledge the place of religion in Dutch society". In this context he noted how "faith schools receive State support in your country, and rightly so, since such institutions are called to make a significant contribution to mutual understanding and social cohesion by transmitting the values that are rooted in a transcendent vision of human dignity".

The Holy Father continued his English-language remarks: "Even more basic than schools in this regard are families built on the foundation of a stable and fruitful marriage between a man and a woman. ... The Catholic Church in your country is eager to play its part in supporting and promoting stable family life, as the Dutch Bishops' Conference stated in its recent document on the pastoral care of young people and the family.

"It is my earnest hope that the Catholic contribution to ethical debate will be heard and heeded by all sectors of Dutch society, so that the noble culture that has distinguished your country for centuries may continue to be known for its solidarity with the poor and the vulnerable, its promotion of authentic freedom and its respect for the dignity and inestimable value of every human life", he concluded.
(VISnews 091002 2-10-09)

Nu zijn natuurlijk allerlei complimenten als noble culture prachtig, maar wellicht had ter voorkoming van dergelijke katholieke geschiedvervalsing Mgr. Eijk hem nu toch maar beter even iets in het oor kunnen fluisteren. Dat krijg je ervan als zo'n Vaticaan ceremoniemeester voor hoerenloperij en - gay pride - verzet - "weet je wel wie ik ben?" - tegen zijn arrestatie alweer voor de rechtbank staat.


Hoe moet de Paus dan weten dat in Nederland zo'n klepperman bij het vuilnis en de beerput hoort?

Monseigneur, ce ne sont que des gueux

sorry for Magdalen remark

Bron: ILO Forced labour: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy

PATSY McGARRY
September 29, 2009
Irish Times

Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe has apologised for using the word “employees” to describe women who had been resident in Magdalen laundries throughout Ireland up to the mid-1990s.

In a letter to Dublin South TD Tom Kitt he expressed deep regret for “any offence caused by my use of the term ‘employees’ when referring to these women”.

He added: “I fully acknowledge that the word ‘workers’ would have been more appropriate.”

Earlier this month in a letter to Mr Kitt, who had made representations concerning former residents of the laundries, the Minister made the point that “in terms of establishing a distinct scheme for former employees of the Magdalen laundries, the situation in relation to children who were taken into the laundries privately or who entered the laundries as adults is quite different to persons who were resident in State-run institutions.”

In the same letter the Minister said former residents of the laundries were not eligible for compensation from the Residential Institutions Redress Board.

“The Magdalen laundries were privately-owned and operated establishments which did not come within the responsibility of the State.

“The State did not refer individuals to the Magdalen laundries nor was it complicit in referring individuals to them,” Mr O’Keeffe said.

Abuse report may be released this week after court ruling

An explosive report into how Catholic church leaders handled clerical abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese could be released as early as next week, once the outcome of a High Court hearing on Thursday is known.

The court is due to consider a request from justice minister Dermot Ahern for direction on whether he can publish the report of the Dublin archdiocese commission to inquire into child abuse.

The report, which archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has previously said will "shock us all", is understood to outline a litany of failures to limit the exposure of vulnerable children to serial clerical sex abusers.

It is also expected to criticise leading figures in the archdiocese for failing to act when alerted about suspicions of child abuse by priests, and to highlight how they instead sought to move clerics to other parishes.

The commission has investigated how clerical sex abuse allegations involving a sample of 46 priests were handled by church leaders in Dublin between January 1975 and April 2004.

The justice minister refer­red the commission's report to the High Court on 31 July, after seeking legal advice from the attorney general. Ahern had concerns that the naming of certain people in the report could prejudice any criminal proceedings against them.

Three of the cases investigated by the commission involve men who are currently before the courts on child abuse charges, with the first trial not expected to take place before next April.

As a result, the High Court has been asked by the minister to decide whether the details of its findings in relation to these men can be published without prejudicing the trials.

The court is due to hear the case in full next Thursday and could issue its preliminary decision at that stage, although the hearing is expected to be held in camera.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice declined to speculate as to when the report will be published and stressed it would await the decision of the High Court before deciding how to proceed.

However, Ahern has repeatedly stressed he wishes to see the matters dealt with in the report "put in the public domain as quickly as possible".

Depending on the High Court's direction, it is understood he could provide some of those identified in the report with pseudonyms or even publish it without including any reference to these three men.