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no words.......let the children speak
Updated on Sep 26, 12
Created on Jun 03, 09
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isabella R's List: Roman Catholic Abuse....no words no words no word can describe or ATONE...
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Dec 01, 09
Church relationship with Irish society has itself been abusive\nRelated »\n\n * Pressure mounts on bishops named in abuse report to resign | 28/11/2009\n\nIn this section »\n\n * Deficit is unsustainable but cuts must be seen to be fair\n * Polarisation penetrating US culture\n * Government should stand down shortly\n * Ministers and backbenchers braced for budget backlash\n * 'Mental reservation' and the church's version of truth\n * This Week They Said\n\nFINTAN O'TOOLE\n\nOPINION: The Roman Catholic Church's great achievement in Ireland has been to so disable our capacity to think about right and wrong that parents of abused children apologised for the abusing priest\n\nIN HIS pastoral letter of February 1979, Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Ryan drew attention to the "corruption of the young". And he was quite specific about the forces that were responsible for it. He attacked "the modern era of enlightenment and permissiveness", and stated that "the new frankness and openness in regard to sexual matters had not made people more healthy in mind and body, but less healthy".\n\nThe corollary of Archbishop Ryan's complaint was, of course, that a lack of frankness and openness in sexual matters would make for a healthier society, and would protect the young from corruption. Like the three other holders of the office scrutinised in the Murphy report, Ryan certainly practised the first part of what he preached. He was a great enemy of openness and frankness, and a great practitioner of the arts of evasion and cover-up. It was the second part of the formula - the protection of the young - that gave him trouble.\n\nIn 1981, for example, Ryan sent a Father X as curate to Clogher Road church in the Dublin Corporation housing estate of Crumlin. He knew that this man was a dangerous and manipulative paedophile who was set on attacking children, as Ryan himself noted, "from six to 16". He knew that X cultivated parents who involved themselves in school or parish activities so as to gain access to their ch
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Jul 21, 11
But Cloyne has proved to be of a different order.
Because for the first time in Ireland, a report into child sexual abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See, to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic - as little as three years ago, not three decades ago.
And in doing so, the Cloyne report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism - the narcissism - that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day. The rape and torture of children were downplayed or "managed" to uphold instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and "reputation".
Far from listening to evidence of humiliation and betrayal with St Benedict's "ear of the heart", the Vatican's reaction was to parse and analyse it with the gimlet eye of a canon lawyer. This calculated, withering position being the polar opposite of the radicalism, humility and compassion upon which the Roman Church was founded.
The radicalism, humility and compassion which are the very essence of its foundation and purpose.
The behaviour being a case of Roma locuta est: causa finita est.
Except in this instance, nothing could be further from the truth.
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