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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Mary Cunningham

    The programme below takes an incisive and considered look at the underlying problems which faced the Irish Bishops as they struggled to cope with clerical sexual abuse. The Vatican culture of self-pro

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  • ACI and ACP member Ger Gleeson has died

    November 12 2013
    Bob Hayes

    So sorry to read this sad news. Deepest condolences to Ger's family and friends. Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

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  • ACI and ACP member Ger Gleeson has died

    November 12 2013
    ger gleeson

    This is Sarah Gleeson, Ger's daughter. I would like to thank everyone so much for their lovely comments about Daddy. He was a truly amazing man and I loved him with all my heart. My mother, brother an

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    Joe, Anything else I would say would be duplicating what Sean O'Connaill has said far more succinctly and intelligently than my writing skills. My internet cover is woeful so I tend not to bother tryi

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Pádraig McCarthy

    #28: Seán, as you say I don't discount the possibility that fear of public shame was a factor. How could I? It is a very common factor in many such situations - think bankers, politicians, etc. We ar

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Kevin Walters

    Sean O'Conaill @28 One of the great potential benefits of the current crisis is that we could together begin to discuss a balanced morality that has a balanced view of sexuality also, one that does no

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    English translation: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/churchdocs/EpistulaEnglish.htm The letter is about procedures in canon law -- where it extends the statute of limita

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    Nuala, the point is that the currently approved handling of allegations of child abuse is very, very different from what it would have been throughout history, in families as much as in churches. To s

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    Pádraig McCarthy #25 . Thanks, Pádraig. I will be sure to read your book. . What I find interesting in your account of Bishop Kavanagh's dealings with these cases is that you do not explicitly surf

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Pádraig McCarthy

    @26: Yes, there was awareness in church and in society for a long time. This, however, is not the issue. The awareness and understanding 30 years ago of the effects of abuse, of how to help the abused

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