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‘T is hier een gevangenis’ Let me go home

"Uitspraak Alicia in de documentaire van Maasja Ooms ..."

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De veertienjarige Sietske is op haar zevende uit huis geplaatst. Sindsdien is ze weggelopen bij negenendertig pleeggezinnen. Ze wil niet accepteren dat ze niet meer bij haar moeder kan wonen. Inmiddels zit ze al anderhalf jaar in een gesloten jeugdinrichting. De dag dat ze weer naar buiten mag, komt steeds dichterbij.



De zaal was vol, liet Deetman weten: hij kon er niet meer bij
Hij was 71. Hij had zijn mond nog nooit open gedaan. Maar gaf aantwoord op de meest voor de hand liggende vraag "waar zat je?"; het duurde jaren voor hij door het trotseren van haar verbod dat wist,  hij tekende het, stapte in en reed erheen. 
Hij verklootte zijn was. 
Hij bewerksteligde een wonder: hij reed zichzelf en mij niet te pletter 
terwijl hij zijn mond opendeed en zei zijn leven lang te hebben moeten bewijzen
dat het niet zijn schuld was, maar dat zijn leven lang heeft moeten aantonen waarmee hij die ene zin uitsprak die iedere onderzoekscommissie overbodig maakt. 
Zij verklootten zijn was.  
En de mijne
Hij werd zijn huis uitgezet. 
Hij is 78 +
Zijn ouwetjes hun chauffeur kwijt, hij zijn theater-uitjes, ik die man die een vriend werd.  
Moge de bomen in dat gat waar hij als een dief in de nacht werd gestald in een seniorenwoning dood zijn gevroren deze dagen zodat hij er om heen moet rijden terwijl hij zwijgt. 

One charge against George Pell withdrawn due to accuser's death

One of the historical sexual offence charges against Cardinal George Pell has been withdrawn because the accuser has died.

Crown Prosecutor Mark Gibson SC on Friday told Melbourne Magistrates Court one charge was being withdrawn.

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Pell, 76, will face a four-week hearing beginning on Monday to determine if he stands trial on historical sexual offence charges involving multiple complainants.

A court artist has been engaged to provide an in-court sketch of Cardinal Pell on the first day of the committal. 
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Trommels; Wat is de vastentijd?

Door: Charlotte Kleyn

We zitten midden in de periode tussen carnaval en ­Pasen en dat betekent: vasten. Althans, in katholieke kringen, áls het nog wordt gedaan. Eeuwenlang was vasten in Europa wel ontzettend belangrijk.

Niet alleen tijdens de veertig dagen voor Pasen (zondagen uitgezonderd) en op vrijdagen, maar ook in de periode voor Kerstmis, soms op woensdagen en heiligendagen. Dat kon in ­totaal wel oplopen tot een derde van het jaar.

Katholiek vasten houdt in dat je minder eet, of bepaald voedsel niet eet. Dit om het lichaam te laten afzien, ­nader tot de ziel te komen en Christus' offer aan de mensheid niet te vergeten. Wijn, vlees en dierlijke producten komen niet op tafel, vis mag wel.

Dat begrip 'vis' is altijd lekker ruim opgevat. Niet alleen vissen en schelp- en schaaldieren, ook kikkers en slakken zijn toegestaan. Er zijn zelfs middeleeuwers geweest die ­bevers en otters aten. Die leven immers ook in het ­water?

Boter, melk, reuzel en spek waren in eerste instantie verboden tijdens de vasten. Die verving je in het Middellandse Zeegebied, waar het katholicisme vorm kreeg, door olijfolie en amandelmelk - en boter. In het noorden waren die geïmporteerde producten echter flink aan de prijs.

Vanaf de vijftiende eeuw kwamen er in Noord-Europa dan ook steeds meer uitzonderingen op de boterregel. In het Franse Rouen kon je dispensatie kopen om tijdens de vasten toch boter te eten. Van het verdiende geld werd een toren aan de kathedraal gebouwd, die nog steeds toepasselijk Tour de Beurre heet.

Anna van Bretagne kreeg van de Heilige Stoel ­speciale dispensatie in 1491. Niet alleen zij, maar haar hele hertogdom mocht voortaan altijd lekker aan de ­geliefde boter.

Overigens kon je als middeleeuwse rijkaard op een jour maigre toch overdadig eten. Een beetje handige kok vormde vis zo dat het net een stuk vlees leek, of maakte chique surrogaatboter.

Van amandelen, rijst, suiker, saffraan, zoete witte wijn en blauwe viooltjes, bijvoorbeeld (uit Eenen nyeuwen coock boeck, 1560). Met al die ontzettend dure ingrediënten is er weinig over van onthouding, afzien en vroomheid, nietwaar?

Dat vonden de protestanten ook, die de vasten ­afschaften. Toch bleven 'magere' recepten opduiken in kookboeken uit de protestante republiek. De volmaakte Hollandsche keuken-meid (1746) geeft bijvoorbeeld een recept voor 'taart voor roomsgezinden', met oesters, amandelen, suiker, peper, kaneel en rozenwater.

Apart? Best wel. Maar een béétje creatieve hippe chef kan daar vast wat mee.
Het liefst nog voor Pasen.

Maar je kunt er natuurlijk ook steekselpap van maken! 

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Aanslag op bevolkingsregister in levensgroot stripverhaal: VNG: Haal gezinskaarten van de website

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75 jaar geleden, op 27 maart 1943, pleegde een groep van zes kunstenaars een aanslag op het Amsterdamse bevolkingsregister. 

Met het bevolkingsregister bij dehand was het voor de bezetter in 1943 erg makkelijk mensen op te speuren. Een verzetsgroep onder leiding van Gerrit van der Veen en Willem Arondéus besloot daarom een aanslag te plegen op het gebouw waarin het register huisde.

Verkleed als politieagenten drong de groep, bestaande uit kunstenaars en studenten, het register binnen, dat destijds naast de ingang van Artis zat. De echte agenten werden verdoofd en naar de dierentuin gesleept.

Mede dankzij het lakse bluswerk van de brandweer (ze waren ingelicht over het doel van de brand) lukte de aanslag gedeeltelijk. Uiteindelijk werd slechts 15 procent van de persoonsbewijzen vernietigd. 

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Met de tentoonstelling Explosiegevaar! neemt het Verzetsmuseum bezoekers mee terug naar 27 maart, 75 jaar geleden. De zes kunstenaars die de aanslag beraamden, worden geïntroduceerd via een levensgroot stripverhaal dat zich kamer na kamer ontvouwd. 

Bezoekers worden uitgenodigd mee te denken. Bijvoorbeeld over de discussies van de beramers over het gebruik van geweld en over de vraag of de aanslag, waarvoor de bezetters twaalf mensen fusilleerden, het wel waard is geweest.

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Explosiegevaar! is te zien van 28 maart t/m 
11 november.

Bon Secours Tuam's St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home

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Stage 2: Options and Appropriate Courses of Action available to Government at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Co. Galway
Delivered to Minister Katherine Zappone, Department of Children and Youth Affairs By the Expert Technical Group

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Galway historian Catherine Corless, whose work resulted in the discovery of the remains of hundreds of babies and infants on the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, has urged members of the public to support full exhumation and DNA testing of the remains.

Galway County Council recently opened the consultation on options for the site following the publication by Minister for Children Katherine Zappone of an expert technical report in December.

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That commission was set up in February 2015 after Ms Corless published research that revealed death certificates for 796 children at the Tuam home with no indication of their burial places.

In June last year, the minister appointed an expert technical group to outline to the Government what options were available for the site and for dealing with the remains.

While the technical report outlined five options – from creating a memorial to continuing examinations on the site – the Government has not made a decision on how to proceed.

At the request of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Galway County Council has opened a public consultation, which will close on Friday March 16th.

The five options it has provided on a printed form are: that a memorial be built on the site; exhumation of known human remains; forensic excavation and recovery of known human remains; forensic excavation and recovery of known human remains with further evaluation and excavation of other areas of interest, and forensic excavation of the entire site.

However, Ms Corless has criticised the nature of the process, stating it amounted to a “vote” on what to do with the site. She and many survivors of the home favour a full forensic investigation, exhumation and DNA testing.

“Unfortunately, it has come to this, that a decision will be made by a voting system,” Ms Corless said. She felt this was a “cold and callous” approach.

“However, if we can get enough people interested to fill in the form and show a preference for an all out forensic excavation, exhumation and DNA testing, the result will bring the long awaited justice to the families of the babies buried in this tank”

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Mother and baby homes investigation too narrow, says UN

Warning that terms of reference may not address ‘the whole spectrum of abuses’

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The shocking case that shows how far the Vatican has to go in child protection

Everyone in Rome says they want an end to abuse scandals. 

But will they do what it takes?

Ed Condon is a canon lawyer and a contributing editor of the Catholic Herald.

We canon lawyers, unfortunately, spend a lot of time dealing with tragic, disturbing, sometimes appalling situations. It’s all too easy to become inured. But even among canonists who routinely deal with cases of child sexual abuse, the news that Mgr Pietro Amenta, a senior Vatican judge, has been convicted of possessing child pornography is shocking.

Mgr Amenta was not a minor figure: he was a prelate auditor (judge) of the Roman Rota, the Church’s final judicial court of appeal. (It does not, thank God, have jurisdiction over abuse cases.) He also appears to have been well-known to the police, having been reported for alleged obscene acts and harassment in 1991 and 2004 respectively. (He was not charged.)

If this were an isolated act, it would be one thing. But it suggests a culture in parts of the Church which is still not taking abuse seriously enough. Even a cursory examination would have shown that Mgr Amenta’s appointment should have at least been delayed until matters were properly investigated.

This is not the only case of basic due diligence being skipped. Bishop Juan Barros denies all the allegations that he turned a blind eye to abuse. But in that story, too, we see the same failure to address concerns before appointing someone to a position of authority. The same goes for other cases. Last year, for instance, a Vatican diplomat was recalled from assignment to Washington, DC, after both American and Canadian authorities opened investigations into alleged child pornography offences.

There is still a great divide in the Church’s response to the sexual abuse scandals. Where these scandals have been most public, like the United States, the response has been clear, systematic, and robust. The creation of the Dallas Charter has brought a

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new era for the Church in America in which “zero-tolerance” means exactly that – indeed, in some cases the pendulum can be argued to have swung too far the other way. But elsewhere – despite solid and necessary legal reforms by Pope Benedict XVI, especially in the document Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela, which centralised handling of sexual abuse cases and laid out a clear legal procedure to follow – Rome has continued to pursue a policy which in practice often appears little better than “don’t ask.”

Well-intentioned reformers have been baffled and dismayed by this attitude. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, headed by Cardinal O’Malley and finally renewed this weekend, lost one of their high-profile members, the abuse survivor Peter Saunders, back in 2016 in large part over his frustration at Rome’s failure to respond proactively to growing indications of problems in South America, including in Chile.

Another former member of the Commission, Marie Collins, found progress frustratingly lacking when dealing with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which handles all complaints of sexual abuse. While one has every sympathy with Collins, who speaks with obvious authority in the subject of sexual abuse, the CDF has its own legitimate frustrations. Time and again, what they have been offered is structural reform, new processes, working groups and commissions. What they need is manpower and resources, and a clear mandate to be proactive in their work; what they have got is a Vatican-wide hiring freeze since 2014.

Vatican authorities, including the Pope, must demonstrate to the world that child protection is not only about listening to victims. Listening is, of course, necessary, but as important is doing something about what you hear. Ask anyone in Rome and they will tell you they want to see an end to sexual abuse scandals. Suggest the kind of CDF expansion of manpower, resources, and authority needed to make this happen and you will get a far less enthusiastic response.

Mgr Amenta’s case, awful in itself, could have a been a chance to show initiative. Instead of being allowed to resign, and only confirming this to the press when asked, he should have been immediately and publicly removed from the Rota. His canonical trial should now proceed with all possible speed, and he should have the best canon lawyer that can be found for his defence. While respecting confidentiality of process, the verdict should also be properly publicised. It is time the Vatican spoke a little less about justice and did a lot more of it.

Ex-Vatican judge 55-year-old Monsignor Pietro Amenta takes plea bargain on molestation, child pornography charges

20-2-2018
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John Allen
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ROME - A former  judge of the Roman Rota, the Vatican’s highest appellate court, has accepted a plea bargain in an Italian criminal court for a conditionally suspended sentence of one year and two months in prison on charges of sexual molestation and possession of child pornography.

Based on reports in the Italian media, 55-year-old Monsignor Pietro Amenta was detained by police after an incident in March 2017, in which Amenta allegedly fondled the genitals of a young but over-age Romanian man in a Roman market. The man reportedly then followed Amenta and summoned police, who took Amenta into custody.

An investigation later discovered roughly 80 pornographic images on Amenta’s personal computer, some involving minors, leading to a second charge in the case.

Amenta resigned his position from the Rota last week, according to a Vatican spokesperson.

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According to reports, Amenta has previously faced charges of obscenity in 1991 and sexual molestation in 2004, though neither of those charges led to convictions. In 2013, Amenta himself made a complaint to police of being robbed by two transsexuals.

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The Feb. 14 conviction in the Amenta case came just two weeks after the Vatican’s chief prosecutor, Gian Piero Milone, revealed that other such investigations are also underway and said that the Vatican is “determined” to prosecute such crimes.

“The inquiries underway are in their preliminary phase, and are conducted conscientiously, with the greatest discretion, out of respect for all the persons involved,” Milone said.

Amenta’s sentence from the Tribunal of Rome does not rule out the possibility that he could also face either criminal charges or canonical sanctions before a Church court.

The outcome in the Amenta case comes at a time when Vatican prosecutors are also looking into charges against Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella, a former official of the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C., who faces charges in Canada after allegedly using a computer in Windsor to download and

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distribute pornographic material, including child pornography.

The charges against Capella were relayed to the Vatican embassy in Washington by the U.S. State Department, and Capella was recalled to Rome to face a Vatican criminal probe. According to reports, he’s currently living under a form of house arrest at the Collegio dei Penitenzieri, the same location where Archbishop Józef Wesołowski, another Vatican diplomat, died in 2015 after facing charges of child abuse during as assignment in the Dominican Republic.

Amenta is one of 22 “auditors,” or judges, of the Roman Rota, and was appointed to the position by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in 2014. Though the Rota can hear disputes involving any aspect of Church law, the majority of its caseload is devoted to annulment procedures from around the world.

Prior to his current assignment, Amenta had served as a lawyer in Italian ecclesiastical tribunals, as a university professor of Church law, and as a judge in the tribunal of the Vicariate of Rome for several years.

From 1996 to 2012, Amenta also served as an official of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

“Those were 15 years in which I was able to come to know the unique and complex world of the Roman Curia, and where I was able to learn the practice of the law,” Amenta said in a 2013 interview.

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Frankly speaking...

To keep you informed of meetings, activities and developments related to the Royal Commission regular updates will be posted here by the staff and members of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council



National redress scheme a slow train coming
Francis Sullivan 16 February 2018

The slow train that is national redress continues to chug along. Another COAG meeting and another disappointing outcome for survivors, whose hopes have been pinned on the redress scheme. Even with the Prime Minister cranking up enthusiasm and urging the states to get on board, the COAG meeting was a fizzer when it came to real commitments from our political leaders.

No wonder victims and survivors are sceptical. The Royal Commission’s recommendation for national redress has been known since September 2015. Yet it was only in the middle of 2017 that the Commonwealth rolled its sleeves up and began designing the scheme. The state governments have kept their powder dry and still do!

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Press Release of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

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17.02.2018

POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS COMMISSION MEMBERS

Pope Francis has confirmed Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap. as President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors [PCPM] and named sixteen (16) members to this advisory body, including nine new members.

The new members are: Prof. Benyam Dawit Mezmur (Ethiopia); Sr. Arina Gonsalves, RJM (India); Hon. Neville Owen (Australia)  [crispina   TJHC] ; 

Ms. Sinalelea Fe’ao (Tonga); Prof. Myriam Wijlens (Netherlands); Prof. Ernesto Caffo (Italy); Sr. Jane Bertelsen, FMDM (UK); Ms. Teresa Kettelkamp (USA) and Mr. Nelson Giovanelli Rosendo Dos Santos (Brazil).

The seven returning members are: Dr. Gabriel Dy-Liacco (Philippines); Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera (Colombia); Fr. Hans Zollner, SJ (Germany); Prof. Hannah Suchocka (Poland); Sr. Kayula Lesa, RSC (Zambia) Sr. Hermenegild Makoro, CPS (South Africa), and Mons. Robert Oliver (USA).

Cardinal O’Malley stated: “Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has given much prayerful consideration in nominating these members. The newly appointed members will add to the Commission’s global perspective in the protection of minors and vulnerable adults. The Holy Father has ensured continuity in the work of our Commission, which is to assist local churches throughout the world in their efforts to safeguard all children, young people, and vulnerable adults from harm.”

The Holy Father has chosen these eight women and eight men from a multi-disciplinary field of international experts in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults from the crime of sexual abuse. Representatives from several new countries will now offer their insights and experience to the Commission, reflecting the global reach of the Church and the challenge of creating safeguarding structures in diverse cultural contexts.

Victims/survivors of clerical sexual abuse are included among the members announced today. Since the Commission’s foundation, people who have suffered abuse and parents of victims/survivors have been members. As has always been the Commission’s practice, the PCPM upholds the right of each person to disclose their experiences of abuse publicly or not to do so. 

The members appointed today have chosen not do so publicly, but solely within the Commission. The PCPM firmly believes that their privacy in this matter is to be respected.

LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED: THE CHURCH NEEDS TO HEAR THEIR VOICES

As decided by the founding members at the September 2017 plenary, the new PCPM membership and staff will begin its term by listening to and learning from people who have been abused, their family members, and those who support them. This “victim/survivor first” approach continues to be central to all the Commission’s policies and educational programmes. The PCPM wishes to hear the voices of victims/survivors directly, in order that the advice offered to the Holy Father be truly imbued with their insights and experiences.

The opening session of the April plenary meeting will begin with a private meeting with several people who have experienced abuse. The members will then discuss various proposals to foster on-going dialogue with victims/survivors from around the world. Discussions have been underway for some months with a view to creating an “International Survivor Advisory Panel” (ISAP), a new structure shaped by the voices of victims/survivors and building on the experience of the Survivor Advisory Panel of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission in England and Wales.

Baroness Hollins, a founding member of the Commission, has chaired the working group to research and develop a proposal on the ISAP and will lead the presentation to the April plenary meeting. 

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The goals for this panel include studying abuse prevention from the survivor’s perspective and being pro-active in awareness raising of the need for healing and care for everyone hurt by abuse.

CREATING A CULTURE OF SAFEGUARDING: OUR BIGGEST FUTURE CHALLENGE

The specific task of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is to propose to the Holy Father best practice initiatives for protecting minors and vulnerable adults from the crime of sexual abuse and to promote local responsibility in the particular Churches for the protection of all children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Inculturating abuse prevention and protection into the life and action of local churches remains the PCPM’s future goal and greatest challenge.

Over its first four years, the PCPM has worked with almost 200 dioceses and religious communities worldwide to raise awareness and to educate people on the need for safeguarding in our homes, parishes, schools, hospitals, and other institutions. The members would like to thank all those who have embraced this call and to thank the Holy See for supporting and encouraging these efforts.

For more information onthe PCPM members,current and founding,andon the work of the Commission,visit our website (now available in English, Italian and Spanish)at:

www.protectionofminors.va

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1 -3-3-4-5 klits klats kladdere

Zaterdag 17 februari 2018 - 21.20 uur - NPO 2 Alleen op de wereld Adriana, Rita en Bob. Alle drie zijn ze rond de tachtig jaar. En alle drie komen ze uit verscheurde gezinnen. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden ze opgenomen in een weeshuis of kindertehuis. De verhalen verschillen in detail, maar niet in teneur. De kinderen van toen voelen nu - ruim 70 jaar na dato - nog steeds het gebrek aan liefde. Andere Tijden laat zien hoe treurig het gesteld was met de jeugdzorg in de periode voorafgaand aan 1945.  Bekijk en lees meer over weeshuizen in Nederland: - Propagandafilm kindertehuis, 1932 - Vier dames herinneren het weeshuis, 1986 - Adriana, Rita en Bob over harde straffen, 2018 - Amsterdam krijg nieuw burgerweeshuis, 1960

en hunne zielen ...als wasch gekneed¨ - Fontaine, Starrenburg, Westerwoudt en het Aloysius

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Dit pand was van 1861 tot 1943 een weeshuis voor joodse meisjes.

"1861 Het grootbrengen van Weesmeisjes behoort tot de goede daden"

Een kwart eeuw later bleek het huis te klein en in 1889

werd het buurpand er bijgevoegd.

"en zij voegden een huis aan een huis toe 1889"

In 1926 werd het huis ingrijpend verbouwd, maar de regentenkamer bleef 

intact; daar is nu het café gevestigd.

Honderden joodse meisjes vonden hier voor korte of langere tijd hun huis.

Op 10 februari 1943 werden de meisjes en hun begeleidsters

weggevoerd en via Westerbork naar het vernietigingskamp

Sobibor gebracht om daar hun einde te vinden.

De gevelstenen en de belettering werden zestig jaar later door de bewoners in 

hun oorspronkelijke staat hersteld.

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