Sarah Mac Donald writing in this week’s Tablet describes the awful ordeal of Fr Tim Hazelwood who had an anonymous false allegation made against him and who then was left to prove his own innocence while feeling totally abandoned by official church and fobbed off by the National Safeguarding Board.
“I was left feeling very alone”, he says. “I had to fight my accuser but I also had to fight the Church, because it didn’t help in any way.”
This article raises very disturbing questions for church authorities in how they deal with anonymous allegations, questions that should prevent them from sleeping easily until they have been fully resolved.
Robert Dore, solicitor, describes the Church’s protocols on anonymous allegations as “wrong” and “wholly inappropriate”.
Eddie Finnegan notes the ACP’s spurt of Easter growth in the light of what he calls Tony Flannery’s “white martyrdom”. And he reflects on how blest the Austrian Priests’ initiative is to have Christoph Schonborn as shepherd and guide: an Austrian for pope?
In response to readers’ requests, Tony Flannery has put all the relevant documents of his case with the CDF together in one post — to make the situation clearer for those who are interested.
The following email has just been sent to all our members with email addresses. There are about fifty members who do not have email. If any of you know any of them, you might be good enough to pass on the content of this email to them.
Seamus Ahearne osa describes a dialogue that happened during Mass after the Gospel of Mark (10:1-12) was read last Friday morning
The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI)’s first general meeting took place on 10 November after the ACP’s AGM at the Regency Hotel in Dublin
Sarah Mac Donald writing in this week’s Tablet describes the awful ordeal of Fr Tim Hazelwood who had an anonymous false allegation made against him and who then was left to prove his own innocence while feeling totally abandoned by official church and fobbed off by the National Safeguarding Board.
“I was left feeling very alone”, he says. “I had to fight my accuser but I also had to fight the Church, because it didn’t help in any way.”
This article raises very disturbing questions for church authorities in how they deal with anonymous allegations, questions that should prevent them from sleeping easily until they have been fully resolved.
Robert Dore, solicitor, describes the Church’s protocols on anonymous allegations as “wrong” and “wholly inappropriate”.
Eddie Finnegan notes the ACP’s spurt of Easter growth in the light of what he calls Tony Flannery’s “white martyrdom”. And he reflects on how blest the Austrian Priests’ initiative is to have Christoph Schonborn as shepherd and guide: an Austrian for pope?
In response to readers’ requests, Tony Flannery has put all the relevant documents of his case with the CDF together in one post — to make the situation clearer for those who are interested.
The following email has just been sent to all our members with email addresses. There are about fifty members who do not have email. If any of you know any of them, you might be good enough to pass on the content of this email to them.
Seamus Ahearne osa describes a dialogue that happened during Mass after the Gospel of Mark (10:1-12) was read last Friday morning
The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI)’s first general meeting took place on 10 November after the ACP’s AGM at the Regency Hotel in Dublin
Sarah Mac Donald writing in this week’s Tablet describes the awful ordeal of Fr Tim Hazelwood who had an anonymous false allegation made against him and who then was left to prove his own innocence while feeling totally abandoned by official church and fobbed off by the National Safeguarding Board.
“I was left feeling very alone”, he says. “I had to fight my accuser but I also had to fight the Church, because it didn’t help in any way.”
This article raises very disturbing questions for church authorities in how they deal with anonymous allegations, questions that should prevent them from sleeping easily until they have been fully resolved.
Robert Dore, solicitor, describes the Church’s protocols on anonymous allegations as “wrong” and “wholly inappropriate”.
Eddie Finnegan notes the ACP’s spurt of Easter growth in the light of what he calls Tony Flannery’s “white martyrdom”. And he reflects on how blest the Austrian Priests’ initiative is to have Christoph Schonborn as shepherd and guide: an Austrian for pope?
In response to readers’ requests, Tony Flannery has put all the relevant documents of his case with the CDF together in one post — to make the situation clearer for those who are interested.
The following email has just been sent to all our members with email addresses. There are about fifty members who do not have email. If any of you know any of them, you might be good enough to pass on the content of this email to them.
Seamus Ahearne osa describes a dialogue that happened during Mass after the Gospel of Mark (10:1-12) was read last Friday morning
The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI)’s first general meeting took place on 10 November after the ACP’s AGM at the Regency Hotel in Dublin
What is the subject of the lecture?
The lecture will be about Seán Fagan – a bit about his background and work and mostly his tribulations with the CDF.