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Peter McVerry sj: Social Activist and Campaigner
Kirsty Jane McCluskey interviews Peter McVerry SJ, for her project about Jesuit vocation and identity: http://jesuitstories.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/peter-mcverry-sj-social-activist-and-campaigner/
“Safeguarding What?” by Nicholas Peter Harvey
This article is an excellent reflection on the policies of Child Safeguarding currently practiced by the Irish Catholic Church, raising many of the questions that we in the ACP have been concerned with. It is reproduced with permission from The Furrow.
Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today
“Any senator or TD who tried to raise the issue of clerical child abuse in the Dail would have been shouted down”. So wrote Kevin Myers in the Irish Independent of 14 February 2012.
Editorial from the Wexford People
This is a copy of the editorial from this week’s issue of the Wexford People. Interesting, to say the least!
Extract from an article in The Tablet
If these new guidelines come into practice it would appear that priests will be in even bigger trouble. It is worrying to hear that Ian Elliot describes a protocol that calls for all priests against whom an allegation has been made to be publicly named as “balanced and fair as possible”.
Suggested new laws about Disclosure; Des Wilson
Privacy, confidentiality and advice seeking are being taken out of our lives. Through centuries people built up customs of privacy which helped make life easier. It was taken for granted…