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ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published
About eighteen months ago some priests of Dublin Archdiocese approached the ACP Leadership with the proposal that a study of Judge Yvonne Murphy’s Investigation of Clerical Child Abuse in the Archdiocese be conducted.
Retired High Court Judge from Hong Kong, Mr. Fergal Sweeney, was commissioned to do this work.
We here publish his report:
Commissions of Investigation and Procedural Fairness Report (40 pages, PDF)In conjunction with this, Fr. Padraig McCarthy of the Archdiocese has just published a book on the same subject. This does not duplicate Fergal Sweeney’s work but includes further areas of analysis of the Murphy Report. Padraig’s book, An Unheard Story (published by Londubh) will be available in most bookshops.
Government should read review of Murphy Report before launching further investigations
Padraig McCarthy reviews Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s response to the legal review of the Murphy Report, agreeing that it makes valid points — but also pointing out that there is more to be said.
Are church investigation procedures really just? — Ladislas Órsy
Ladislas Orsy SJ, visiting professor of philosophy of law and canon law at Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington DC, is a graduate in law of Oxford and holds a doctorate in canon law from the Gregorian University, Rome. This article was first published, in German, in Stimmen der Zeit, in June 1998. This version appeared in Ireland’s Doctrine and Life in October 1998.
The ACP Leadership team believe it is very apt today, in view of the difficulties some priests are having with the Vatican.
Extract from an article in The Tablet
If these new guidelines come into practice it would appear that priests will be in even bigger trouble. It is worrying to hear that Ian Elliot describes a protocol that calls for all priests against whom an allegation has been made to be publicly named as “balanced and fair as possible”.
NBSCCC Diocesan Reports
Combined summary table from the NBSCCC Diocesan Reports
Pádraig McCarthy
Mix of fact and fiction in ‘Philomena’ takes from its impact
Brendan Hoban reviews the movie ‘Philomena’, currently on general release. He believes it didn’t need to add fictional elements to present the facts as unacceptable and inhumane (first published in this week’s Western People).