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Zoals de goede Heer Bots al zei:

Je moet zoiets natuurlijk wel in de tijd zien, jonge vriend, bewaar het toevertrouwde pand

O.B.B. 

· What did you learn in school today? I learnend turtles fly!

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) will host a hearing at M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island on Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26. Read more

The hearing will take place at the M’Chigeeng First Nation Community Complex. Additional program details will be posted here prior to the event, where the hearings will also be streamed live.

As with every TRC Hearing, participants will have the option to provide a public or private statement.
Manitoulin Island Hearing POSTER and AGENDA and MEDIA RELEASE

The dates and location for the remaining two Hearings are as follows:

Thunder Bay – Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 15
Dryden – Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23
More details on these Hearings will also be posted here as they are confirmed.

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Turtles fly

We day in Kinhasa

13-10-2012

Aselme Wasakundi , Jean Pierre Ndulani en Edmond Kisughu : voorzitter Congolese bisschoppenconferentie herhaalt oproep: “Laat ontvoerde assumptionisten vrij!”

ROME (RKnieuws.net) - In een interview met Radio Vaticaan heeft mgr. Nicolas Djomo Lola, bisschop van Tshumbe en voorzitter van de Congolese bisschoppenconferentie, opnieuw een oproep gedaan om de drie ontvoerde paters assumptionisten in zijn land onmiddellijk en zonder voorwaarden vrij te laten. Ook de synodevaders hebben een oproep gedaan om de priesters, die eind vorige week uit hun klooster in Mbau (Noord-Kivu) werden ontvoerd, meteen vrij te laten.

“We beschikken nog steeds over weinig informatie. Wij weten niet waar de paters worden vastgehouden”, aldus de voorzitter van de Congolese bisschoppenconferentie. Ook de congregatie van de paters assumptionisten beschikt over geen nieuwe bijzonderheden over de ontvoerde paters, zo heeft RKnieuws.net op de hoofdzetel van de congregatie in Rome vernomen.

Storende factor

Over de eventuele oorzaak van de ontvoeringen is mgr. Djomo Lola zeer duidelijk. “Voor velen is de Kerk een storende factor. Zij neemt het op voor de bevolking en verdedigt de veiligheid en de eenheid van het land. Het Congolese volk wil één blijven en in vrede leven. De Kerk wil daartoe bijdragen. Dat wordt haar niet door iedereen in dank afgenomen”, aldus de bisschop.

“De Kerk is slachtoffer omdat zij het algemeen welzijn dient’, stelt mgr. Djomo Lola. Hij meent dat de ontvoeringen te maken hebben met het feit dat de Kerk de activiteiten van de milities in Noord- en Zuid-Kivu veroordeelt. “De milities plunderen de minerale grondstoffen in deze regio om ze te verkopen en met de opbrengst ervan wapens aan te kopen”, aldus de voorzitter van de Congolese bisschoppenconferentie.

Le vicaire général du diocèse de Goma exprime son émotion face aux conditions dans lesquelles vivent les habitants de la région.

 Le vicaire général du diocèse de Goma exprime son émotion face aux conditions dans lesquelles vivent les habitants de la région. 

« Bouleversé par les conditions épouvantables dans lesquelles vivent presque toutes les personnes ici, depuis des années, il m’arrive de me demander si Dieu existe encore. Je lui dis souvent : “Tu es du côté des plus pauvres, des plus petits. Dieu d’Amour, je sais que Tu es au plus près des plus faibles. Mais, parfois, j’ai du mal à Te reconnaître. J’espère que Tu vois tout ce qui se passe dans cette région et qu’un jour Tu vas agir pour ces gens qui t’implorent, pour ces innocents livrés entre les mains de tant de bourreaux.” Je n’ai pas perdu la foi, mais il m’arrive de douter, oui. En même temps, que fait la communauté internationale pour soulager la douleur de ce peuple ? Est-elle ignorante, indifférente ou complice ? Et la Monusco ? Malgré toute sa puissance, son matériel, ses chars, ses hélicoptères, ses milliers d’hommes suréquipés… on assassine des gens devant elle sans qu’elle intervienne. Il y a de quoi perdre la raison. »
 

Laurent Larcher, à Goma 

Goma redoute de tomber aux mains des rebelles

-Chef-lieu du Nord-Kivu, Goma vit dans la psychose des attentats.

- Les rebelles du M23, qui campent à 30 km à peine, menacent de prendre la ville.

À Goma, les attentats sont quasi quotidiens. Ce jour-là, un individu vient de lancer une grenade devant un salon de coiffure, la Maison de Chicago, qui jouxte l’hôtel Jola. Le bilan des secours est d’un mort et d’une vingtaine de blessés. « Depuis mi-septembre, nous sommes visés, aveuglément, témoigne Cédric, 17 ans, un voisin de la Maison de Chicago. Cette fois, c’est notre quartier. Et puis demain ? Nous avons de plus en plus peur de ces attaques aveugles. »

les casques bleus de l’ONU semblent impuissants

Elles ne sont pas revendiquées. La police, l’armée, les casques bleus de l’ONU semblent bien impuissants devant cette nouvelle menace. Les bérets rouges de la garde républicaine, chargés de sécuriser le quartier, sont très impopulaires dans la population. « Ils entrent dans nos maisons, volent nos biens et nos téléphones et prennent notre argent, accuse Cédric. Dès qu’ils viennent, tout le monde fuit. Alors que faire ? Partir ! Mais pour aller où ? »
 
Salvador, un habitant de ce quartier populaire, affirme qu’une deuxième grenade, qui n’a pas explosé, a été découverte sur les lieux de l’attentat. « Avant, on se levait tous les matins à Goma en se disant : vais-je pouvoir me nourrir et ne pas tomber malade ? lance-t-il. Maintenant, nous nous demandons d’abord : est-ce ma dernière journée ? »

la rébellion ne campe qu’à une trentaine de kilomètres de Goma

À la menace de ces attentats s’ajoute celle de la prise de la ville par le M23. Depuis le début du mois d’octobre, le mouvement menace de s’emparer de Goma, affirmant vouloir « protéger la population des attentats aveugles » . Une menace encore renouvelée la semaine dernière. À Bunagana et à Rutshuru, les deux principales villes occupées par la rébellion, le discours est sans équivoque parmi les soldats, les officiers, les politiques : « Nous nous préparons à prendre la ville », répètent-ils. Pour l’heure, la rébellion ne campe qu’à une trentaine de kilomètres de Goma.
Le dispositif déployé pour protéger la ville, chef-lieu du Nord-Kivu, par l’armée congolaise n’est pas impressionnant. Pour un mouvement militaire bien organisé et bénéficiant de soutiens extérieurs, dont celui du Rwanda, tout proche, prendre cette ville ne semble pas très compliqué.

l’ONU recule devant les troupes du M23

Sur la « zone neutre » entre les deux pays, une rue sépare Goma la Congolaise et Gisenyi la Rwandaise : ici, les deux villes, les deux pays s’imbriquent l’un dans l’autre. Une colonne de soldats pourrait entrer à Goma et occuper rapidement le centre-ville. « Toutes les nuits ou presque, des convois, des voitures, des trafiquants passent de Goma à Gisenyi par ma rue », témoigne Odette, une Congolaise dont la maison fait face à Gisenyi.
Reste une inconnue de taille : l’attitude de la Mission des Nations unies pour la sécurisation du Congo (Monusco). Officiellement, les forces de l’ONU ont annoncé qu’elles défendraient la ville. En pratique, elles ont reculé, jusque-là, devant les troupes du M23 qui se sont emparées de plusieurs villages.

« Murgee tu na maombi »

Pour la rébellion, prendre Goma, c’est la première étape qui doit les conduire, 2 200 km plus loin, à Kinshasa, la capitale. En attendant, la vie à Goma s’arrête à la nuit tombante, à 18 heures. « On s’enferme chez soi et l’on se dit entre nous en swahili : “Murgee tu na maombi”, il n’y a que Dieu qui puisse changer la situation en réponse à nos prières », témoigne Taylor, un habitant de Goma d’une quarantaine d’années.

Laurent Larcher, à GOMA

Gouden handdruk belastingdienst Joris Demmink twee emmertjes van blik

Nieuwsberichten Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie
Start campagne tegen Kindersekstoerisme
24 oktober 2012

Ajoen, ajoen, ajoen
al  aan de hoogste klapperboom

Blonde mokkels

 bron

"I will not yield,  

I will not fall,   

I will eat dynamity and one day  I will explode like a volcano"  

 

"The peaceful night that round me flows,

 breaks through your iron prison doors, 

free through the world your spirit goes, 

forbidden hands are clasping yours. 

The wind is our confederate 

the night has left the doors ajar; 

we meet beyond earth's barred gate, 

 where all the world's wild rebels are."

Artane boys Een film om nooit te vergeten

 Frank O'Shea   October 23, 2012   
Frank O'Shea is a Canberra writer

Music rising from the ashes of abuse 
During the time of big Irish families in the pre-pill era, boys might be under less parental control than ought to be possible today when the Irish birth rate, although the highest in Europe, is a modest 2.1. So, it was not unusual for boys to get into trouble and be deemed dangers to society or to property or to apple orchards. The result was that they might be sent to the large industrial school run by the Christian Brothers in the north Dublin suburb of Artane.

A frazzled parent might well threaten their child with such an outcome in an effort to frighten the recalcitrant one into conformity. In practice, many of those who ended up in Artane were there because they had been abandoned or because it was the opinion of authorities that their families were unable to look after them.

It was not a badge of honour for the family or a situation fondly anticipated by the child.
I came across the story of one such boy recently.

Danny Ellis was an inner city kid, his father in America for work, his young mother not able or not willing to look after him and his four younger siblings. These were taken away to be cared for by nuns and finally his mother took Danny to Artane, telling him she had to go to hospital and would come back for him at Christmas. He never saw her again. At the time, the school had some 800 boys in close dormitory and refectory quarters. It was no place for the timid or the weak. Discipline was primitive and based around liberal use of the strap, something that was widely known in society if only because it was common in all schools, if not always as enthusiastically.

 Come the first Christmas, eight-year-old Danny opts not to go to a film in the city with the others, deciding instead to wait at the gate for his mother. He is seen by an old brother, long retired and given to praying aloud in the chapel, to the amusement of the boys. He knows Danny's situation and tries to break it gently to him.

 rest artikel 

Ach vader lief, toe drink niet meer ; Dronken bisschop stelt mijter ter beschikking

GRONINGEN (RKnieuws.net) -


"Anders dan in de Verenigde Staten en het Verenigd Koninkrijk, zijn er in een aantal landen christelijke politieke partijen ontstaan. In ons eigen land waren de confessionele partijen echte emancipatiepartijen. Met name rooms- katholieken en gereformeerden hebben door partijvorming gepoogd om hun maatschappelijke achterstand op te heffen. En wij kunnen zeggen dat hun missie is geslaagd".

Dat stelt mgr. De Korte, bisschop van Groningen-Leeuwarden.

"In de zestiger jaren van de vorige eeuw was de collectieve emancipatie van achtergestelde groepen christenen voltooid. Door de geslaagde schoolstrijd was er een uitgebreid net van christelijke onderwijsinstellingen ontstaan. Een en ander heeft aanzienlijk bijgedragen aan het opheffen van de sociale achterstand. Veel christenen in ons land verlangden na de geslaagde collectieve emancipatie naar een individuele emancipatie. Hoger onderwijs en gestegen welvaart heeft deze tendens naar individualisering in de hand gewerkt. Ontzuiling en ontkerkelijking bleven niet zonder gevolgen voor de politiek".

Wir haben es nicht gewusst

toegevoegd 23-10:

Liegen dat het gedrukt staat 

Geef ons heden ons dagelijks brood

Zoals het klokje  tikt

wiens kont men likt

Moesecrossing

broeder Henricus

OLV 7 smarten sinds 1931

† 84 jr.  Broederhuis Nieuw Schoonoord

  

Andrew Madden a story of life after abuse

I  would like to start by thanking Fr. Paddy Byrne and Fr. Declan Foley for the invitation to come and speak … until I met Paddy this evening I only knew him from Twitter, where he shares a very positive message …

Text of speech I gave at St Andrew’s Church, Bagnelstown, Co. Carlow. 10th April 2012

There was a time as a young boy, too many years ago to say when, when I thought that standing up on an altar speaking to people like yourselves, was something I would be doing all the time when I grew up.

I used to love walking through the tree lined streets of Cabra in Dublin, carrying my altar boy’s surplus and soutane around to our big red brick church, the church of Christ The King. It was huge. And special. As a child I knew it was special because of the way adults conducted themselves there. Hushed tones, apparently due deference, and everyone in their Sunday best.

I gave many years to that Church in Cabra, first as an altar boy, then in the folk group and later doing all I could to help the parish secretary and the sacristan, writing articles in the parish newsletter and preparing the altar for Mass.

All the time thinking, I was learning some of what I would need to know, when I, myself, would one day become a priest. I could think of no better way to live my life.

My experiences of childhood sexual abuse by Father Ivan Payne, who was a chaplain to our parish in Cabra, did not impair that deep rooted desire I had to one day be a priest. At first, I had thought he was a fantastic priest; charismatic, popular, great with young people and with what seemed like a healthy disinterest in things like the Creed, and even the rosary. ‘They can say that themselves’ .. is a line I heard from him more than once.

But in time, I learned, through personal experience, of that other side to Father Payne and over time, though still a young teenager, formed the view that he wasn’t such a great priest after all. His was the busiest Mass on a Sunday morning though, standing room only if you were late for the 12oclock. I used to stand on the altar, with the folk group, and think to myself … if all those people knew what I knew. But how could they ever know? I could never tell and if I did no one would ever believe.

Of course some years later I did tell the guidance counsellor in school, I was 17 years of age and the abuse had long ended, but I was feeling its effects more and more. The guidance counsellor notified people in Archbishop’s House – people he considered to be trustworthy, and sometime later it was confirmed that Father Payne had accepted the truth of my allegations. He did of course remain a priest, though it never occurred to me, at that time, that anything else was possible.

A couple of years later I made my own application to enter Clonliffe College and was eventually, and carelessly, told that I was not a suitable candidate for the priesthood. No reason was given. I was devastated. Father Ivan Payne, known to Diocesan authorities as a child molester, was more suitable for the priesthood than I was. My relationship with God, and with what I had grown up to believe was his one true Church, was crushed.

When I reported Father Payne I thought that Catholic Church authorities would be hearing unique allegations that would utterly shock them. I had no idea that I was only one of many thousands of children that had had similar experiences and that members of the Catholic Hierarchy, around the world, were well used to hearing about them.

Some years later, 1994/5, I went public about all that had happened. I had two principal concerns at that time.

Firstly, after two years of exchanging legal correspondence, I had received a relatively small amount of compensation in a private out of court settlement, and I was advised that this payment was unprecedented in the context of child sexual abuse, certainly in the context of child sexual abuse by a Catholic priest. I considered that if I had been compensated then, others who had been similarly abused were also entitled to seek redress and they might be assisted in doing so if they knew a precedent, of sorts, had been set. I also considered that going public and talking about this subject matter, almost unheard of 15 or so years ago, would be a key step in helping myself and other victims deal with our past and seek recovery.

Secondly, and more importantly, Father Ivan Payne ….. was still a serving priest in a Dublin parish with all the access to children that such a position gave him, fourteen years after I had first reported him.
How much damage had he done in that time?
And how many more priests like him had Catholic bishops reassigned to positions that endangered the safety of other children?

Father Payne was convicted in 1998 for the sexual abuse of eight boys over a 20 year period. Some of those offences took place after Dublin Diocesan officials had learnt about Father Payne from my guidance counsellor in school. By then, Belfast priest, Father Brendan Smyth had also been convicted and again the same pattern of cover up had left him free to rape and sexually abuse children long after he should have been stopped.

BBC People of the year 2009 

It was at that time, early 1998, that I first sought an independent inquiry into the handling of allegations of child sexual abuse against Catholic priests. Children were being sexually abused by priests already known to Catholic Church authorities to be people who should never have access to children.

The Taoiseach of the day, Mr Ahern, did not share my concerns, an inquiry of the type you suggest can only be held into matters of urgent public concern was his response. Just as shocking was the fact that his reply, moved into the public domain by me, was met with total silence the length and breadth of Ireland. The sexual abuse of children by known child molesters and rapists, not a matter of urgent public concern – shameful.

It only took another four years of good investigative journalism alongside revelation after revelation about how much Catholic bishops had known about the sexual abuse of children, before Government was forced to change its position in October 2002, following the broadcast of RTE’s Prime Time Special Cardinal Secrets, and a statutory Inquiry into the Archdiocese of Dublin was announced. Three and a half years was spent setting up the Inquiry. The Inquiry itself led to what we know now as the Murphy Report. By then we had also seen the publication of the Ferns and Ryan Reports and since then the Cloyne Report.

I was angered and saddened by the findings of these reports: The same tactics employed by Bishops for decades to knowingly, proactively conceal the sexual abuse of children in order to maintain secrecy, avoid scandal, protect the reputation of the Church, and preserve its assets.

And those tactics were not unique to the Catholic Church in Ireland. Much has being made of the 1962 and 2001 Vatican documents instructing Bishops around the world to conduct investigations into allegations of child sexual abuse in secret. But I believe that the similarity of actions of Bishops in Dioceses so far apart from each other, from Ferns to Philadelphia, from Dublin to Boston, from Manchester to Munich, demonstrate very convincingly that such practices were known about in essence if not in detail, at the highest level of Catholic Church hierarchy. This is not a problem of a few rogue Bishops. Nor is it a problem within the Catholic Church in Ireland alone.

So how has the Catholic Church responded - to the truth now being so widely known, a truth it fought so hard to hide?
For me the response beggars belief to this very day and has added insult to injury.

Initially Catholic Bishops here in Ireland took some ownership of the cover up saying, in December 2009, that they were shamed by the extent of it and that it reflected a culture of cover up that existed throughout the Catholic Church in Ireland, though within days the spin had started and cover up became mismanagement, and management became failure of leadership.

In the Vatican, Pope Benedict talked about when the importance of listening to victims while at the same time choosing to ignore us when  we wrote to him a week before the Irish Bishops’ visit to the Vatican in early 2010. It was important to us that our views would be considered at that meeting and unlike the Bishops we were happy to publish our submission. At no time then or since has our correspondence ever been acknowledged and our views remain completely ignored.

Also in the Vatican, Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone stated that there is a relationship between paedophilia and homosexuality. This was nothing more than a reprehensible attempt to blame a small and marginalised group within society for the actions of priests who sexually abused children, in order to deflect attention away from the Church’s own role in concealing that abuse.

Secularism was also blamed, as was the media and loss of faith, one minute revelations of sexual abuse and cover up were being described as petty gossip, the next minute they were tantamount to the collective violence perpetrated by Christians on Jews over the centuries.

How different that response could, and should have looked.

To his credit Bishop Jim Moriarty got it right. I was very grateful to him for the content and tone of his resignation statement. He acknowledged that he should have challenged the prevailing culture that existed within the Archdiocese and apologised for failing to do so, this was very welcome. His acknowledgement that ‘the long struggle of survivors to be heard and respected by church authorities had revealed a culture within the Church that many would simply describe as unchristian’ was also very welcome.

If other members of the Catholic hierarchy had responded in this way things might look very different in the Catholic Church today …. Renewal must begin with accepting responsibility for the past.

Another part of our collective response to all we have learned is what we, as a society, do to ensure today’s and tomorrow’s children live in a safer world. The Catholic Church in Ireland has the National Board for Safeguarding Children, which I welcome. I also acknowledge and welcome the hard work that many people are engaged in at parish level in implementing the Safeguarding Children Guidelines
What happens where such good will doesn’t exist? 
And how seriously can we take Catholic Church leadership on child protection when such leadership remains littered with Bishops who caused the sexual abuse of children by their own actions or inactions?

I know I’m talking to you in the context of the Catholic Church but the debate about the safety, welfare, protection and rights of children is of course much wider.

We know only too well that the State is as capable of failing children as the Catholic Church is. We’ve had Reports into the deaths of children in the care of the State, reports about the absence of proper care for separated non-Irish national children, reports about the failure by the HSE and others to comply with Children First Guidelines, reports about children being left in abusive foster care situations even though serious concerns had been expressed by teachers and members of the public.

Part of my response in recent years, to all we have learned, was to join forces with people who advocate genuinely in the best interests of children, with no hidden agenda ........., to listen to the changes they felt were necessary if we, as a society, were to properly respond effectively to all we now know about past and present abuse, neglect and failure to protect children. I also took full advantage of any opportunity I could get to ensure that people in Leinster House were listening to our voices and formulating policy accordingly.

Thankfully there is a body of work underway by Government that was long overdue and it is refreshing to have a Minister for Children and Youth Affairs who is driving that work along as impressively as Frances Fitzgerald is.

In particular I welcome...

Putting the child protection guidance, Children First, on a statutory basis. This has been talked about for years and finally it is being done with publication of the legislation imminent. Safeguarding Children, which I mentioned earlier, is compliant with Children First Guidance and after the legislation is passed we will no longer rely on the good will of anyone to ensure implementation.

The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is introducing legislation making it a criminal offence to withhold information about and arrestable offence having been committed upon a child or a vulnerable adult – all those acts of deliberate concealment of the sexual abuse of children will be a criminal offence if they are repeated ... and no exemption will, or should, be made for concealing information just because it was learned during the sacrament of confession.

Some people complain that there is too much focus on the Catholic Church with no consequences for others who have failed children just as badly. It should be noted that the HSE is to lose its management of Child and Family Support Services and those responsibilities are being transferred to the new Department of Children and Youth Affairs with, hopefully, proper lines of administrative, executive and political responsibility built into the legislaltion.

Properly enshrining the rights of children in our Constitution has also been talked about for many years, now we have a commitment from Government that it will definitely take place this year and it will be a stand-alone referendum. I very much hope the people of Ireland will give a resounding to yes to that referendum proposal when the time comes.

We need to radically enhance the monitoring and support of sex offenders living in the community, post conviction, the system, as it currently stands fails to monitor and support the offender as much as it fails to reassure the public ... and the Garda Vetting Bureau Bill seeks to address the need, amongst other things, to facilitate the passing on of soft information, as recommended by the Ferns Report 7 years ago.

Progress has been slow, but it is being made and we must never, ever, again allow any organisation, large or small, powerful or otherwise, to put self interest above the best interests of children and we must always listen to the voice of the children when we are taking decisions which affect them.

Thank you very much for your time and your attention .....

Kerkstraat

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Multicultural Council of
Saskatchewan

 

functies daders lijst MCU 4

1956

Fait à Kinshasa, le 20 octobre 2012.

L’Association Africaine de défense des Droits de l’Homme est très préoccupée par la dégradation de la situation sécuritaire  et l’enlèvement de  trois  prêtres de la paroisse de MBAU dans le territoire de Beni, au Nord-Kivu.

En date du 19 octobre 2012, entre 21H00 et 21H30, un groupe de cinq hommes armés non autrement identifiés a enlevé trois prêtres de la paroisse de MBAU et les a amenés vers une destination inconnue.
 Il s’agit d’ASELME WASUKUNDI, Jean Pierre NDULANI et Edmond KISUGHU.

L’ASADHO craint pour la vie de ces hommes de Dieu à cause du risque élevé d’atteinte à leur vie et des actes de torture dont ils peuvent être victimes de la part des auteurs de cet enlèvement.

Elle condamne cet enlèvement  et rappelle qu’il constitue une atteinte grave aux droits fondamentaux reconnus aux particuliers par les instruments juridiques nationaux et internationaux relatifs aux droits de l’Homme.

Face à ce qui précède, elle recommande :
§  Au  Gouvernement  Congolais :
-           De prendre toutes les dispositions pour renforcer la sécurité dans la province du Nord Kivu ;
-            D’instruire la police et les FARDC pour qu’elles mènent des enquêtes afin de trouver les auteurs de cet enlèvement et les victimes. 

§  A l’auditeur Général :
-          De diligenter des poursuites contre les auteurs de cet enlèvement.
 
§  A la Monusco :
-           D’assister la police et les FADC pour qu’elles mettent la main sur les victimes et les auteurs de cet enlèvement.

New Vatican ordeal for rebel priest Fr Flannery

Irish Independent
10-10-2012
 Garry O'Sullivan

A high profile priest is coming under increasing scrutiny from the Vatican's theological watchdog for expressing liberal views.

Silenced Redemptorist and Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) founder Fr Tony Flannery has been contacted by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Irish Independent can reveal.
It emerged earlier this year that Fr Flannery was silenced by the Vatican and put under investigation for his "liberal" views on women's ordination.

This came to light only weeks after the report of the Apostolic Visitation from Rome which noted that Ireland had widespread dissent among priests, religious and lay people from the church's teaching.

Several other clerics were either silenced or received warnings from the Vatican, including Fr Brian D'Arcy.
Now Fr Flannery has received further correspondence and documents to sign from the CDF under its new head, German Bishop Gerhard Muller, who has a reputation for taking on what the Vatican see as Catholic 'dissidents'.

Insensitive
Fr Flannery is having difficulty signing up to some of the demands in the latest documents seeking his retraction on certain liberal views.
Some of these views include campaigning for women's ordination and married priests; a complete re-think on contraception; and a change in what is seen as harsh and insensitive language in the church's teaching on homosexuality.

Sources said the language of the letters contains the terminology of Vatican I, held in the late-1860s. One cleric said: "The church says it has good news for the 21st Century but is proceeding to operate a 16th Century mindset."

It is widely speculated in church circles that Fr Flannery has been singled out for his public support of Taoiseach Enda Kenny's post-Cloyne Report speech in which he castigated the Vatican for its "elitism, dysfunction, disconnection and narcissism".

The ACP, which represents 800 of Ireland's 4,000 priests, said last April it was "disturbed" that its founder was under Vatican investigation.

- Garry O'Sullivan

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Still lives

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 (vrij naar Desmond Aug.Goethe)

Cosmographia

Catholic clergy the worst abusers, inquiry told

The Age
20 - 10-2012

Catholic clergy commit six times as much abuse as those in the rest of the churches combined, ''and that's a conservative figure'', a child protection expert says.

Patrick Parkinson, a Sydney University law professor, told the state inquiry into how the churches handle sex abuse yesterday that the figures for the Catholic Church were strikingly out of proportion.
He proposed a 12-month amnesty from charges of perverting the course of justice if the church opened all its files on offenders alive and dead, but said those involved in cover-ups would have to resign.

Earlier, Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton set the inquiry's opening day alight with more broadsides against the Catholic Church's systemic obstruction of police inquiries over five decades.

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He said police had statistics for sexual offences by clergy and church workers since January 1956, uncovering ''shocking'' figures: 2110 offences against 519 victims, overwhelmingly perpetrated by Catholic priests and mostly against boys aged 11 or 12. But in all that time the church had not reported a single crime to police.

Savaging the church's Melbourne Response protocol for dealing with complaints, Mr Ashton said: ''If a stranger were to enter a church and rape a child it would be immediately reported to police. But if the stranger were a member of the clergy, their special process would be wrapped around him. What is different about the clergy? It is the reputation of the church that creates the difference.''

He said the Melbourne Response was ''based on a flawed notion of independence'', with independent commissioner Peter O'Callaghan, QC, appointed and paid for by the church.

Mr O'Callaghan replied: ''Much of Mr Ashton's evidence and the police submission, both made under the cover of parliamentary privilege, are grossly misconceived, damaging and plainly wrong.'' He said he would ''correct and refute'' police evidence if he was called before the committee.

Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart also came to Mr O'Callaghan's defence, with a public statement saying for the past 16 years the church had been ''honest and open'' in co-operating with police.

'Any suggestion of a lack of independence of the independent commissioners is a very serious attack on the professional integrity and competence of senior members of the Victorian bar,'' he said. ''I reject any such suggestion.''

 Professor Parkinson, who chaired a review of child protection laws in New South Wales and twice reviewed the church's national Towards Healing abuse protocol, said he broke with the Catholic Church over its cover-up of his independent report on the Salesians of Don Bosco.

Speaking under parliamentary privilege, he said the order sent three priests overseas to avoid police questioning, then suppressed his report on their actions.

He told the committee an American child safety expert had called the order ''the most defiant and unrepentant group'' in the church.

Professor Parkinson said: ''The lies were breathtaking, and [former Australian head] Father [Frank] Moloney was absolutely at the centre of all the untruths.''

Monash University child protection expert Chris Goddard lashed the ''partial and tokenistic'' mandatory reporting laws in Australia that carried no meaningful consequences for those who ignored them.

Professor Goddard, director of Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia, said only two people had been prosecuted since the law was introduced in 1993 for failing to report suspected abuse, and ''many times loss of life has followed'' that failure.

He also criticised training for child protection workers, saying that ''if we had the same disorganised approach for drink-driving there would be a public outcry. There should be independent visits to church homes, independent assessments of organisations, and compulsory training.''

Dr Daryl Higgins, deputy director of research at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, said victims were often not believed until they had reported the abuse five times.