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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #19 According to a report in the Irish Times of April 22nd 2002, that Intercom article questioning the performance of Irish bishops in relation to clerical child sex abuse appeared in December 1993.

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Pat, if you read my comment again @8, I think you will find that I did not bypass the obviously unfair treatment of Tim Hazelwood which arose from the Church's present policy in dealing with anonymous

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Lloyd, for providing historical texture. One detail is new to me: that a child or minor would not denounce abuse for fear that his father might murder the abuser. This is another illustration

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Pat Rogers

    This has been an absorbing and sometimes passionate exchange of views. But I would like it to focus on the initial question raised by Tim Hazelwood namely what is the church's current approach to deal

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #16 You are quite right to insist, Joe, that historical perspective is needed to assess the culpability of any individual's decisions or failures in the past - but that again raises for me the questio

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Bernard Kennedy

    The experience of Fr Tim is deeply saddening especially coming from an organization which has as it's theme 'do not judge'. Pope Francis rails much against the dangers of gossip.Perhaps the ACP could

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I've never really given this much thought despite being part of Canada's largest class-action - I was always thinking about how priests operate under a Canon law that obviously didn't update its texts

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    As a long- time mitigator of the alleged antisemitism of T. S. Eliot and Martin Heidegger, I do believe that historical perspective often radically unercuts our initial indignation about how people sp

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie, Sean's certitude, as you call it, is shared by just about every lay Catholic I have ever spoken with on this particular matter. I am totally puzzled as to why people like yourself will persist

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks Joe@10 & 12 for that necessary corrective from context to Sean's incorrigible certitude (passim) re Padraig's consistent argument. I too pray that Sean's certitude may eventually yield to C

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