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Mass at any price for a few?

Added on October 20, 2007

Archbishop Se?n Brady will address survivors of institutional abuse at a Mass to day in Cork organised by Right of Place and Ms Buckley.

The vast majority of survivors will not know of or hear of what Archbishop Sean Brady says. The vast majority of those who came through the various Institutions will not hear because for them and their families they have not been through a Catholic Church door from the time that they left the Institutions. They have not regarded themselves as catholic at all and so will not hear the Archbishops address.

This then is why so few from the Institutions attend this Mass each year. Families will of course make up the numbers of ?over three hundred? and we would wish that they gain some comfort from their attendance there to day.

It would of course be more acceptable to former residents if they could but understand why Bishop Buckley of Cork, together with many other Bishops continue to finance this group called Right of Place while ignoring all other groups or former residents outside Cork. This year too sees another group vying for recognition. Ms Buckley, who sees an opportunity in all that former residents do and achieve while restricting them to a place called ?Aislinn? (which has developed a dependency culture all of its own? is to provide the ?Choir? for the Mass to day. What a talented person despite her earlier sad upbringing as portrayed in ?Dear Daughter?.

No, the greater numbers of former residents who contact the Alliance Support Group are very vocal about the Religious Orders and the Catholic Church in what they see as their selective offerings of support when it comes with a cheque attached to it. Will Noel publish these Religious Accounts this year as requested? No, of course not.

Let us hope that when Mr Justice Sean Ryan submit?s his report that he will recommend the closure of these ?madras?s? which continue to support a ?cottage industry for both Barry and Buckley, at the expense of those they say they are supporting.

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