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Sean O’Conaill (Derry) responds to a review of Dave Pierre’s book reproduced a short while ago on this website. Sean has a contrary point of view, and is critical of some of the facts presented and the conclusions drawn
Abuse by priests causes spiritual wounds
A man who suffered sexual abuse from a priest asks the Church to dispense victims of abuse from needing priests to encounter Christ in the sacraments. He shows a minimum of anger, a lot of compassion and immense struggle as he reflects on his complicated relationship with the Church. (Name and address with leadership team of the ACP.)
Did the Council of Trent enable the sex abuse scandal?
Eugene Cullen Kennedy argues that the sex abuse scrisis can be traced back to the hierarchicalmodel of the Church promoted by the Council of Trent (first published in the National Catholic Reporter on 20 February 2014: read the original article here).
Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?
Fr Paddy Banville asks if the leadership of the Catholic Church in Ireland is willing to sacrifice unjustly-accused priests on the altar of child protection, in his article published in The Irish Catholic, 15 March 2012
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…
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.