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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Paddy @15 says to me, “I wish you would just stop this now.” Fair enough to say how you feel, but it gets us not a bit further unless the specific points I proposed are answered. Neither Ben@6 nor

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    February 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11, #14 - I wrote: “And so we get again the straw-clutching implication that the diocesan policy of reassignment of erring priests might have arisen from unknown advice given by psychiatrists and

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  • Hope yet for the year of Mercy?

    February 12 2016
    Mary Wood

    I live with an 86 year old cradle Catholic who angrily asks,"Has the Church ever apologised for teaching small children that almost everything was a mortal sin?" Aged 6, she ate a sugar mouse on Chri

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    February 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Padraig @ 14, this is the topic I've elaborated on. Is the Crimine Solicitationies document criminally punishable? Could the Vatican be liable? Is there one other institution or organization out th

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Looking up van der Kolk's book on Amazon, his account of "Julian" seems a classic instance of induced FALSE memory to me. See p. 172 of the book at http://www.amazon.com/The-Body-Keeps-Score-Healing/d

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    February 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe@10, you are forever going on about Fr.Shawm Ratigan and the very severe sentence he got for taking photos of the little girls and, given that murderers get only 20 years, you probably have a point

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Kevin Walters refers to "the fundamental sin of a Culture of Cover Up within the Church." I have little doubt that this has occurred in the Church, as it does in many other organisations where their r

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    February 8 2016
    D. B. Doucette

    The Shanley case is not contested except by Shanley, who had participated in a group that says love between adult and juvenile males is desirable. Shanley himself admitted to abusing at least 9 childr

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @10 The fictional IMAGE of priests in 99% of films is that of good holy men serving God this Image re-enacted in proud hearts endorsed by a docile/proud (self-serving) laity has produced a

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    It baffles me that Seán O'Conaill (@9) could have so totally missed the primary focus of what I wrote above. I wrote that the film is worth seeing. The movie can speak for itself. If we are to see th

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