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It's a long story but I think you can guess what happened!
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Saturday, 23 May 2009
ALL THAT I AM YEAR 5!
How do you like MY colouring??
Questions for teachers by pupils in Y5...nah! Even I can't bring myself to post them!!
Oh dear! They might want the copyright!!
" It would be better for him...
Picture & caption Fr Tim here
I personally can't do anything about abuse by the Irish or Americans, but abuse of my children through sex education..oh yes!
Btw I have to add that we do not have any sex education contrary to the Truth & Meaning of Human Sexuality in my childrens Primary. Living in the Diocese that produced & promoted & still does with full support of Archbishop Nichols, I am bound by conscience to speak out for the little children. I liked Fr Tim's post but I have to say we should all clean our own back yards too!
Why does Jacinta need to know where ' Vas Deferens ' is? Is it a country? lol
/>Safeguarding Teams!
The Safeguarding Team here
Perhaps you'd drop them a line asking that they 'safeguard' our children in their schools.
Friday, 22 May 2009
All That I Am ...programme installation...
Link here
All That I Am here Sex Education for Children by Archbishop Nichols to hit some Catholic Primaries in the next few weeks!!!
Supported by The Teenage Pregnancy Unit here
Some people have said to me..Jackie we're waiting to see...well I think they might have a long wait & in the meantime what about the 9 year olds NOW!!!!
Previous post here with 18 comments!
All That I Am ...abuse? For girls & boys age 9 years...A PAEDOPHILE'S DREAM!!
Weakland didn't know child abuse was a crime! Yeah right! Who doesn't know that giving 9 year olds these obscene pictures is a crime??
All That I Am endorsed & promoted by the new Archbishop of Westminster. Watch out parents in London!
May 12, 2009 Patrick Madrid writes here & below
More Water Under the Bridge as Archbishop Weakland Makes His "Announcement"
I suppose this AP story about Archbishop Weakland publicly admitting his homosexuality was intended to be a "bombshell," but it's really more of a dud of a scud missile that everyone saw coming, long ago. There's no need to rehash the sordid details here, this article does that for us. But I would like to comment on one thought that came to mind as I read this sorry tale.
Many years ago, perhaps as many as 20, I read an interview by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a Catholic psychotherapist who specializes in counseling homosexual men and women, in which he asserted that he knew for certain that there were at least 3 or 4 (I'm paraphrasing here) actively homosexual Catholic bishops. I recall the emotions of shock and anger and . . . credence . . . that washed over me when I read that claim. Shock that a bishop -- a bishop! -- as well as priests could be implicated thusly ( I see now how utterly naive I was back then), anger that someone would even make such a claim about Catholic bishops, and, yes, credence -- a slowly unfolding, dread-in-the-pit-of-your-stomach kind of horrified realization, that this vile claim just might be true.
And, oh boy, was it ever true. Much more than I ever could have imagined back then. It is a truism to say that a lot has happened in the Catholic Church since the 1980s, back when the very suggestion that homosexuality was a widespread problem among the clergy then (and quite possibly even now), a lot of terribly murky, fetid, noisome water has passed under the bridge. How much more such flotsam will pass by as the years flow into the past and as the Catholic Church (please God!) gradually becomes more purified, repaired, renewed, and restored by God's grace and by the courageous, heroic virtue of her priests and bishops, religious and laity? How long, O Lord? How long?
United States
Weakland 'didn't know child abuse was a crime'
From National Association of Catholic Families here & below
Commenting on the early years of the clerical abuse scandal, retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee writes in his forthcoming memoir, 'We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.' The archbishop says he instead 'accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would 'grow out of it.''
However, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports that 'Advocates for victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse on Monday released documents they say refute claims by retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland that he did not understand early on the criminal nature of the abuse or its long-term effects on victims.
They also disputed statements that he attempted to deal with pedophile priests but was thwarted by Vatican policy.
Weakland makes those assertions in his forthcoming memoir, 'A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church,' saying at one point, 'We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.'
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests took issue with the claims, and on Monday released documents from a civil fraud case involving the late Father Lawrence Murphy, who is thought to have abused as many as 200 deaf children in the 1960s and '70s.
'He likes to position himself as a critic of the Vatican, the one bishop who stood up to challenge the system,' SNAP Midwest Director Peter Isely said of Weakland, in releasing the documents outside the archdiocese's Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
'He never once stood up against the system when it came to the molestation and rape of boys' by Murphy at St. John School for the Deaf in St. Francis, where Murphy worked for two decades, Isely said.
Weakland did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
In a statement, the archdiocese said it has acknowledged for many years the allegations against Murphy included in the documents. The abuse committed by Murphy 'thirty years ago was a horrendous betrayal of his priestly vows,' said the statement. It said Murphy's name appears on the archdiocese's list of clergy offenders and that the archdiocese has instituted policies to ensure that such abusers no longer serve as priests.
In his book, the retired archbishop says that in the 1970s, he 'naively' accepted the notion that victims would either forget or 'grow out of' the abuse. He blames the leniency shown by judges toward priests (and other professionals) in sex abuse cases for shaping his views on the perpetrators.
The documents released Monday include victim statements recounting their memories and anguish from as early as 1974; a reference to a 1974 review of allegations against Murphy by the Milwaukee County district attorney's office (no charges were filed because the statute of limitations had expired); and a letter showing Weakland was preoccupied - even after the priest's death in 1998 - with preserving his 'good name.'
In the letter to a nun explaining why he wanted a private funeral for Murphy, Weakland said: 'So far, we have succeeded in preserving his reputation, and I hope we are able to do so in the future.'
The letter was written five years after a psychotherapist's assessment of Murphy - also included in the documents - detailed how he preyed on vulnerable boys, one as young as 11, after they confided in him in the confessional.
Murphy, who died in 1998, is at the center of one of the civil fraud cases now pending against the Milwaukee Archdiocese. In it, Donald Marshall, now an adult, said he was molested by Murphy at a school in northern Wisconsin in the late 1970s after the priest was sent by the Milwaukee Archdiocese to live and work in Boulder Junction. [CWN, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel] 1545.33
How would you all like your 9 year old daughter to sit down in class & colour in male genitalia? When Archbishop Vincent Nichols withdraws the filth with his name all over it, then I will listen.
Comment from Fr Ray's post on this subject:
I think there was misuse, if not abuse, of power in schools and institutions across the board, both public and private and was an accepted part of society. A throw back to Victorian times when life was hard for the poor and especially in institutions and work houses when poor people did not expect that they had any 'rights'. There must too have been an element of shame and secrecy where misuse has gone on to become abuse in an institution and where poor was often synonymous with sinful. It was only when misuse of power was rooted out that deeper abuses were able to be rooted out as well. Thankfully nowadays we have much more transparent educational systems in place and more transparency in the church as well. Is that so Fr Ray?
21/5/09
Blogger epsilon said...
I appreciate the very thoughtful comments from anonymous, Catholic Observer, Gor and Richard. I really don’t feel there was any anti-Irishism involved in CO’s comments, being an Irishwoman from 50s Ireland / UK immigrant of the 70s, Crux Fidelis. But, ye know, Jackie Parkes is right – we should all be concerned about how we’re taking care of the children NOW – whether it’s AB Nichols’ worksheets or the Christian brothers in the field today. They are out there with the poorest of the poor in far flung corners of the earth – how about the brothers inviting the witnesses to visit and advise them where they are today to make sure there’s not a modern-day version of the same cycle, or AB Nichols asking for advice from the witnesses on his explicit worksheets? To be given that level of respect would surely be therapeutic for the witnesses, and a whole generation of children would be saved a lot of emotional wounds.
Abuse in Ireland & ( England today!!)
Fr Ray Blake writes here & below
I think every Catholic should read the terrible report on sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in Ireland.
In other parts of the world similar abuse took place in similar institutions, in Ireland all took place under the heading of the Church, which more or less ran Irish social services.
I pose the question what about the abuse of our children under our very noses? Look at the sex education programme All That I Am. How priests can allow it in their Catholic primaries is beyond me. They should know better. All the fancy Liturgy, vestments, traditional Masses etc do not compensate for allowing these programmes in our schools. The children must come first!
I am left wondering why such ghastly things should have happened.
Was "child care" pre-1980s like this everywhere; brutality, violence, humiliation were part of even the best schools.
Is it a fault of the Catholic Church as a whole?
Is it the particular fault of the the Church in Ireland?
Is it something to do with Irish culture in particular?
I am also left wondering whether there are other areas of society, in Ireland especially, but also elsewhere, where similar acts of abuse took place.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Praying for our new Archbishop
The Church is very explicit about the qualities that must be present in a candidate to the episcopacy. He must be "a good pastor of souls and teacher of the Faith." The church examines whether the candidates "enjoy a good reputation; whether they are of irreproachable morality; whether they are endowed with right judgment and prudence; whether they are even-tempered and of stable character; whether they firmly hold the orthodox Faith; whether they are devoted to the Apostolic See and faithful to the Magisterium of the church; whether they have a thorough knowledge of dogmatic and moral theology and canon law; whether they are outstanding for their piety, their spirit of sacrifice and their pastoral zeal; whether they have an aptitude for governing." Consideration is also be given to "intellectual qualities, studies completed, social sense, spirit of dialogue and cooperation, openness to the signs of the times, praise-worthy impartiality, family background, health, age and inherited characteristics."
Please pray for the Archdiocese of Birmingham as it awaits an appointment of a new Archbishop.
H/T Humble Piety here
" Head In Clouds "
Oh just a personal reflection. There are perverts who take photographs of traditional Masses including pictures of my sons. So we know these scandals & perversions continue. Strangely the diagrams used in Archbishop Vincent's Sex Ed program are very similar to the circumcision, perversion diagrams used by perverts, particularly for & of young boys.
Archbishop Vincent Installation Homily
Faith is never a solitary activity nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension. This community of faith reaches beyond ethnicity, cultural difference and social division, opening for us a vision of ourselves, and of our society, as having a single source and a single fulfilment. Indeed this vision of faith is expressed powerfully by St Paul when, in his letter to the Galatians, he says that in Christ, "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus". This is a vision of true social cohesion, a promise which lies ahead and a signpost of which churches construct, Sunday by Sunday, with their communities of unity in diversity.
Here is the homily, which, alas, is rather woolly...but hopefully this is just the start and he will become more bold with his language later on. Enough of these 'nice' sermons! Dialogue with those who 'disagree' with Holy Mother Church. As a good priest told me recently. While dialogue is taking place, evil is triumphant.
H/T That the Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill here
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
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