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June 2007 Archives

PRIEST TELLS HOW FALSE SEX CRIME RUINED HIS LIFE

CRIME: Accuser Jailed for Four Years by Charlie Mallon, Evening Herald (Dublin), 27 June 2007] [This took up a quarter of page 10 of the Evening Herald today. For comparison purposes, the WHOLE of page 11 was given over...
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CHILD RAPE IN DELAWARE (USA): PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS GET A PASS

from The Catholic League, USA , 20 June 2007 [NOTE: Public School teachers in the USA are actively encouraging false sex allegations against their private counterparts - who are mainly Catholic - by trying to remove the Statute of...
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Falsely accused also have right to just process

Falsely accused also have right to just process Sat, Jun 23, 2007 Paul (Pablo) McCabe was a homeless man who was the co-accused along with Nora Wall in the alleged rape of a young girl, a case subsequently found to...
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Challenged by Brother?

May we refer to the article ?Penalty for Assault on Male Challenged by Brother? in The Irish Times dated 22nd June 2007? It appears that the Christian Brother is facing trail on 31 charges of sexually abusing several boys in...
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Penalty for assault on male challenged by brother

Fri, Jun 22, 2007 The High Court has reserved judgment on a challenge by a Christian Brother to the constitutionality of laws providing for maximum sentences for indecent assaults on males which are five times higher than maximum sentences...
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THE DEATH OF A LIBERAL UNIVERSITY; ANTIOCH COLLEGE, USA

In my essay "Brother Maurice Kirk FSC and Father Michael Sweetman SJ" (www.alliancesupport.org on 3 October 2006) I wrote that "1968 was the year our Irish 'liberals' started to go crazy!" That was correct - and not just in...
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YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH

Madam, - Fr Patrick Seaver (June 16th) is saddened at the absence of anybody between the 10 and 40 at the three Masses he celebrated in Limerick on the previous weekend. Could the absence of young people from Catholic...
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YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH

Madam, - Last weekend, in the absence of the parish priest, I was the priest-celebrant at all three Masses in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Limerick. I saw nobody in church between the ages of 10...
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FERNS: FAMILY FORCED WITHDRAWAL OF COMPLAINT AGAINST PRIEST

Bishop Comiskey was denounced for failing to take this accusation seriously. When worthless allegations are treated as gospel truth by the media, it is not surprising that Church authorities sometimes fail to take real allegations as seriously as they...
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FERNS SEX ABUSE ACTION STRUCK OUT

Irish Times, Thursday, 14 June 2007 [I believe that this is the "Father Alpha' case in the Ferns Report'. Father Kinsella has always maintained his innocence. In 2002, the Director of Public Prosecutions declined to proceed with a CRIMINAL...
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INNOCENT PRIEST VINDICATED

Bishops Must Give Priests Due Process Says President of Priests' Council The Irish Catholic, 14 June 2007 by Michael Kelly The President of the National Council of Priests in Ireland (NCPI) has called on the bishops to review the...
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JUSTICE PAUL CARNEY AND NORA WALL - THE REASON WHY

[The following is a very interesting article on Justice Paul Carney; it was written by Barrister Kieron Wood. It is remarkable as much for what Mr. Wood leaves out as for what he says. He stresses that Paul Carney's...
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The scandal of the baby snatchers

By SUE REID Two-year-old Crystal Walton smiles at the camera, her blonde hair blowing in the wind. The photograph of the enchanting little girl looks as though it should have pride of place in a treasured family album. Yet...
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Comiskey is 'more than happy' to testify on clerical abuse

By Dearbhail McDonald Wednesday June 13 2007 RETIRED Bishop Brendan Comiskey, the first member of the Church hierarchy to give evidence in an abuse case, has told the High Court he is "more than happy" to appear as a...
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RTE says sorry for treatment of radio guest

Tuesday June 12 2007 RTE was forced to issue an apology on its 'Liveline' programme yesterday over a the "biased" treatment of one of its on-air guests during a debate on same-sex adoption. The State broadcaster read out the...
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What an absolutely horrific, spiteful, and potentially life-destroying crime this was.

June 11th 2007 Lower Coyne Street, Callan, Co. Kilkenny. To Alliance Support Phone: (056) 7725543 Dear Editor, Within the past fortnight, a man was convicted of falsely accusing a priest of sexually abusing him. What an absolutely horrific, spiteful, and...
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Putting children first

Mon, Jun 11, 2007 Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has provided the public with details of a harrowing case where three children in residential care were denied long-term fosterage because of the inflexibility of health board officials. And while the Health...
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JUSTICE PAUL CARNEY AND NORA WALL

Justice Carney behaved like a judicial thug at the sentencing of Nora Wall on 24 July 1999. He KNEW that Nora Wall's accuser Regina Walsh had stated in a newspaper interview the previous month that she had also been...
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Man guilty of false sex abuse claim against priest

Thu, Jun 07, 2007 A south inner city man who falsely alleged he was buggered by a priest giving him prayer tuition for his First Holy Communion has been remanded in custody for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court....
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Former Brother pleads guilty

A former religious brother in Mountfort House, which used to be a retreat centre on the outskirts of Monaghan town, pleaded guilty at Monaghan Circuit Criminal court yesterday to four charges of indecent assault against two Monaghan sisters who...
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RECOVERED MEMORY: Sex Case Man Cleared as Judge has 'Recall' Doubts

[The judge who withdrew this "Recovered Memory" case from the jury is Paul Carney, the same who presided over the child rape trial of Nora Wall and Pablo McCabe in 1999. He saw nothing wrong with "Recovered Memory" at...
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May we refer to the article ?Church Appoints Child Protection Director"

May we refer to the article ?Church Appoints Child Protection Director? by John Cooney dated 31st May 2007 particularly to his last paragraph ?Meanwhile, the Commission of Inquiry into child abuse in the diocese of Dublin is expected to seek...
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Church appoints child protection director

Strategy is to move beyond apologies for abuse By John Cooney Thursday May 31 2007 This move is part of its proactive strategy of trying to go beyond merely apologising for the scandal of clerical sex abuse. The appointee, Ian...
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