Was given.
Peter Preston, who has been protesting outside Leinster House off and on since 2006 (claiming a political cover-up relating to the State’s neglect of children in its care) meets Enda on Merrion Road, Kildare Street, Dublin, this afternoon.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
“It would have been no different if he had taken a gun and shot him, it just took longer.”
A horribly familiar and genuinely frightening story broadcast this evening in Australia of child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church in Ballarat, Victoria.
The abuse involved “many children, committed over several years” and is believed to have lead to 40 suicides in the state
But “the most alarming revelation is the fact that the Church turned a blind eye to [one of the] the priest’s crimes…despite clear evidence of abuse, the Church allowed him to move from parish to parish, apparently without alerting the police.”
The programme reveals that “even now the Church will not admit the full extent of what it knew.”
Watch here
Thanks Mark Geary
You remember?
The Apostolic Visitation.
He was the lead ‘investigator’.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan (above) of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.
Questioned at the time about the news that one particularly notorious pedophile cleric had been given a “payoff” to leave the priesthood, Cardinal Dolan, then the archbishop, responded that such an inference was “false, preposterous and unjust.”
But a document unearthed during bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and made public by victims’ advocates reveals that the archdiocese did make such payments to multiple accused priests to encourage them to seek dismissal, thereby allowing the church to remove them from the payroll.
Fancy.
Three months ago:
The apostolic visitation led by the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, noted that there had been some “progressive steps” towards reforming church structures and in particular the handling of allegations of child abuse. Several Irish judicial inquiries found the Catholic hierarchy had covered up allegations of abuse, often by moving accused priests to other dioceses or even out of the country.
Wonder if he’s going to the Eucharistic Congress?
In Milwaukee Post, Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers (Laurie Goodstein, New York Times)
PUBLIC LITTER bins are being removed from residential areas by Dublin City Council in an attempt to crack down on illegal dumping of household rubbish.
The council has so far withdrawn almost 200 bins from the streets, some of which were underused, while others were being “abused” by householders who did not want to pay waste charges, according to the council.
Most of the bins removed were removed because of underuse, but a quarter were being filled with household waste.
Council Removes Public Bins Because Of Illegal Dumping (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)
The Diocese of Stockton [California] settled a lawsuit over alleged sexual abuse by Father Michael Kelly. The Diocese agreed to pay the unidentified victim and his attorneys $3.75 million.
The settlement will end more than four-and-a-half years of litigation. A 12-person jury had already found Fr. Kelly guilty of sexual abuse earlier this year, the second phase of the trial started about a week and a half ago.
The victim released a statement Friday morning, stating “This 4½ years of litigation and 10-week trial has been the most difficult experience of my life, but I feel I have received justice today, not for me, but for that 10-year old boy who Fr. Kelly hurt so badly.”
Fr. Kelly is believed to be in Ireland right now, after sending a note to the Diocese stating he had gone there to be with family.
Diocese Settles Abuse Case Against Fr. Kelly (Fox40.com)
Previously: Fugitive Priest’s Letter
The controversial new BWVAKTBOOM ad from PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals).
The whole ‘tantric pornstar roughing up the girlfriend’ tack probably sounded ‘challenging and zeitgeisty’ at the agency pitch.
The same agency is probably even now trumpeting the fact that the ad has gone viral, citing the benefits of mass exposure and brand awareness.
