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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, I thought you should read this. TRENDING: Crisis in the Church Commentary Church must open a process of truthful remembering Sep 10, 2018 by Alex Mikulich Accountability Opinion Recent re

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  • Erring Shepherds

    September 10 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    "We can no longer pretend that this problem of sexually abusive priests, small in terms of the total priesthood as it might be, remains only at the lowest level of priesthood or even at the level of b

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  • RTE’s Coverage of Church and Faith Matters

    September 2 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    RTE had John Kelly as commentator for Festival of Families.I can think of other RTE female broadcasters who would have engaged better with a major faith event. Imagine having John Kelly covering a maj

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Bannon has his baleful eye on the clergy now: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/405789-bannon-wants-to-see-sexual-abuse-tribunal-instead-of-popes

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    My suspicion about the motives behind the promised new spate of inquiries is boosted by the news that STEVE BANNON is in on the act. Bannon told Reuters he was working on setting up an independent, no

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Of course the earlier exposes led to the current regime, in place since 2002, which is why the Philly Grand Jury found nothing much to report since then. Now we are to have a whole spate of expensive

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    Thank you Sean for sharing that link to Aidan Hart’s article. I found it overwhelming reading. The magnitude of the problem and the Churchs long history of covering it up is laid bare for everyone t

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  • RTE’s Coverage of Church and Faith Matters

    September 2 2018
    Frances Burke

    Maureen. I didn’t watch any of the coverage on TV as I’m not an RTE viewer. However, I totally agree with the rest of your points.

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    ‘They have never explained why this happened!’ Could I once again recommend Marie Keenan's excellent book "Child Sexual Abuse & the Catholic Church. Gender, Power and Organisational Culture.

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #2 References to 'pounds of flesh' in this context are entirely inappropriate. Did Joe O'Leary never log the fact that the child safeguarding regime now in place in Ireland and the US did not exist BE

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