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December 2008 ArchivesA Happy and Peaceful New Year To You All Special thanks to the Sisters of Mercy at Holy Cross Convent Killarney-Co. Kerry AND I SAID TO THE MANAT THE GATE OF THE YEARGIVE ME A LIGHTTHAT I MAY TREAD SAFELYINTO THE UNKNOWN,AND HE REPLIED,GO OUT INTO THE DARKNESS... Church, State and child abuse Wed, Dec 31, 2008 Madam, - Mary Stewart (December 29th) attacks two Catholic organisations on the grounds that they are "minuscule" and assumes (her own word) that the views of these groups are heard in Ireland only because they... Diocese of Cloyne wanted to see State documents PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent Wed, Dec 31, 2008 THE DIOCESE of Cloyne demanded to see all documents the State possessed concerning an allegation of sex abuse made against one of its priests, before it would agree to meet... Supporters join priest on long walk of atonementIndependent.ie By Ralph Riegel Wednesday December 31 2008 A dozen people yesterday joined a priest on his protest march over the Catholic church's handling of child abuse claims. Fr Michael Mernagh set off alone on Monday morning from St Colman's... Priest in child abuse protest urges bishop to step downFr Michael Mernagh at St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh yesterday. He is to walk to Dublin to show solidarity with victims of clerical sex abuse. OLIVIA KELLEHER A PRIEST who is walking from Cork to Dublin to show solidarity with... Bishop silent as protest takes to the roadsIndependent.ie By Ralph Riegel Tuesday December 30 2008 A priest set off on a long lonely walk of atonement from Cork to Dublin yesterday in response to the Church's handling of the Cloyne child abuse controversy. Fr Michael Mernagh... Rape crisis centre calls for bishop's resignation Monday, December 29, 2008 By Evelyn Ring THE Bishop of Cloyne John Magee must resign over his mishandling of child abuse allegations, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) insisted yesterday. DRCC chief executive Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop said while it is... Church, State and child abuse-Irish Times Letters page Mon, Dec 29, 2008 Madam, - It is not acceptable that control of the education of our young children should be in such a perilous state of confusion. On the one hand, the State, in accordance with Bunreacht na... Catholic body sought unconditional indemnity over Cloyne abuse report Patsy McGarry Religious affairs Correspondent Mon, Dec 29, 2008 UNCONDITIONAL INDEMNITY from the State was sought by the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) in the Catholic Church, should its report on Cloyne diocese be published before it went... Fr Mernagh will walk for nine days. Long march: Cobh to Dublin Fr Mernagh will walk for nine daysPhotograph: The Irish Times A Dublin-based Augustinian priest will this morning begin a nine-day "walk of atonement" for all who have suffered clerical child sex abuse, from Cobh to Dublin's Pro-Cathedral.... Pressure grows on Church for audit of child protectionIndependent.ie By Ralph Riegel and John Cooney Monday December 29 2008 PRESSURE is mounting on the Catholic Church to concede to a nationwide audit of childcare protection in all Irish dioceses in the wake of the Cloyne controversy as... Bishop still fighting abuse cases despite 'admission' Justine McCarthy Cloyne sex case victim accuses disgraced Magee of dragging High Court battle out 'to the bitter end' --> Magee: admission The diocese of Cloyne is continuing to contest a number of civil legal actions by the... Removed from realityIndependent.ie SINCE his appointment 12 years ago as Bishop of the Cork diocese of Cloyne, John Magee has conducted his business outside the spotlight of national attention. But last week, a damning Church report into his handling of child... Bishop defies resignation calls for child 'errors'Independent.ie By Ralph Riegel Sunday December 28 2008 THE Bishop of Cloyne, Dr John Magee, has no intention of resigning over a child protection controversy and plans to lead the Easter ceremonies in his diocese next April. Friends have... Bishop takes blame for abuse 'mistakes'Independent.ie By Michelle McDonagh, Stephen O'Farrell and Fiach Kelly Saturday December 27 2008 A BISHOP has finally accepted "personal responsibility" for the mishandling of sex abuse allegations in his diocese. But beleaguered Bishop of Cloyne Dr John Magee remained... Suspicions inevitable after church's record on Cloyne Sat, Dec 27, 2008 People suspect there are dioceses around the country where bishops still practise, "whatever you say, say nothing", writes Breda O'Brien THE ROMAN Catholic Church is being rocked by yet another scandal, in the shape... Bishop Magee admits 'errors' on handling of abuse claims MICHELLE McDONAGH and MARIE OHALLORAN Sat, Dec 27, 2008 BISHOP OF Cloyne Dr John Magee has signalled he will not be resigning although he says he takes full responsibility for the "errors" made in relation to the management of... Church, State and child abuse Wed, Dec 24, 2008 Madam, - This is a wonderful country, and I am profoundly grateful for the accident of lineage that gave me the privilege of living here. But it is also sometimes a bloody strange place. Consider... Church's reputation set back years by Cloyne Wed, Dec 24, 2008 Irish Times ANALYSIS:Bishop Magee's claim that children's safety is his priority is not borne out by church report, writes PATSY McGARRY WHAT EMERGED last Friday about the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in... Archbishop rounds on HSE and Government Bishop of Cloyne John Magee has refused to talk to the media as pressure mounts on the former Vatican secretary to resign after a damning report into his handling of abuse allegations By John Cooney and Ralph... Clerical sex abuse in diocese of Cloyne Madam, - It is frankly outrageous that the publication of the report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children into clerical sex abuse allegations in the Diocese of Cloyne was not accompanied by the immediate and contrite resignation... Renewed pressure on Magee to resign Tuesday, December 23, 2008 By Jennifer Hough and Claire O'Sullivan THE Bishop of Cloyne is under renewed pressure to step down after the Minister for Children expressed concern about Dr John Magee remaining in his position as patron of... 'Difference in understanding' may have delayed abuse report Patsy McGarry- Irish Times A SIGNIFICANT "difference in understanding" over who commissioned the report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) in the Catholic Church in Ireland, on child protection practices in Cloyne diocese, appears to have... Ex-Cloyne priest joins calls for bishop to resignMonday, December 22, 2008 By Claire O'Sullivan Irish Examiner A PRIEST who left the Diocese of Cloyne nine years ago over his deep disgust at how child sex allegations were being covered up has joined the growing number of people... Church needs to learn from its past mistakes Independent.ie By David Quinn Monday December 22 2008 The diocese handled these complaints more or less as they would have in 1988 The Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, can consider himself a very lucky man that the economy... Lay group calls on bishop to resign Photograph: The Irish Times ALISON HEALY THE REPORT on serious allegations of abuse in the diocese of Cloyne must raise fears that other dioceses are not meeting their child safety obligations, the lay Catholic organisation Voice of... Costly Aboriginal Programs Do Little To Help Vast Majority Of Aboriginals [Canada] by RORY LEISHMAN, London Free Press (Ontario, Canada), 21 December 2008[ A lot of this applies to the Child Abuse Industry in Ireland and also to our Government's promotion of Traveller "culture" ]Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard are a... Conspiracy Theorists Outed (Ontario, Canada) by CLAUDE MCINTOSH, Cornwall Standard Freeholder 20 December 2008[ The Public Inquiry in Cornwall, Ontario into allegations of a "paedophile ring" is the latest in a series that has been going on since 1994. The allegations are falling apart... Child protection procedures 'robust': Min Saturday, 20 December 2008 13:19 The Minister for Children, Barry Andrews, has said child protection reporting procedures are robust. He was speaking after the publication of a report on sexual abuse in the diocese of Cloyne. A second... BISHOP OF CLOYNE: DPP Was Sent 4 Files On Priests But No Charges Broughtby Eoin English, Irish Examiner, December 20, 2008 [ The decision of the DPP that there should be no prosecution against the two priests seems to have been ignored by the Irish Times and the Independent. The (almost-nationwide) Irish Examiner... Church 'cannot be trusted' with the safety of children PATSY McGARRY Irish Times THE CATHOLIC Church "cannot be trusted to consistently put the safety of children above all other considerations", Maeve Lewis, executive director of the One in Four group, said last night. She was speaking following... Diocese failed to act properly on sex abuse allegations The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church was highly critical of the way the Diocese of Cloyne and Bishop John Magee handled complaints of sexual abuse made by five people against two priests in the diocese.Photograph:... Bishop apologises after abuse report highlights diocese failings PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent THE CATHOLIC Bishop of Cloyne has apologised to victims of clerical sex abuse after an independent report found his diocese had put children at risk of harm through an "inability" to respond appropriately to... Cloyne report may go to archdiocese Friday, December 19, 2008 By Claire O'Sullivan and Stephen Rogers THE Minister for Children may refer a report into allegations of child sexual abuse in a Co Cork diocese to the Dublin archdiocese's commission of investigation. On December... Remembering awful plight of orphans Friday December 19 2008 Reading Anne-Marie Walsh's article, 'Migrants earning as little as €2 an hour' (Irish Independent, December 17) reminds me of Ireland's earlier workforce who fared even worse. Those of us who left the Industrial Schools,... TEXAS "ABUSE": FLDS Custody Case Whittled To 19 by Ben Winslow,Deseret News, December 17, 2008 [ 439 children were seized by the Texas Child Protection Services from a polygamous group last April - plus 26 adults whom the CPS insisted were children. ALL 439 were handed... I'm Being Set Up As The Fall Guy In Jersey Probe by Deborah McAleese, Belfast Telegraph, 17 December 2008 The Northern Ireland-born police officer who headed up the Jersey child abuse probe is to tell the High Court in London next month that the UK must intervene in the... JERSEY: No Murder At The Mansion Mick Hume, The Times (UK), 16 December 2008When a deputy police chief announced that children had been killed and buried at a Jersey home, the media were satisfied. But was it true? Throwing a miniature rugby ball around his... Police Investigate 'Vigilante Attack' Claim After Murder Of Sex Offender Lorry driver had been convicted of unlawful sex with 15-year-old girl by Cahal Milmo, Chief reporter, The Independent (UK) 13 December 2008 Andrew Cunningham had left his family and lived in a caravan By his... 'Inhuman' points system measures abuse victims Ken Foxe Public Affairs Correspondent ABUSE victims have called for the abolition of a barbaric 'points system' used to rate the level of sexual and physical torment suffered in institutions. A former resident of an industrial... All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth . .Independent.ie By Florence Horsman Hogan Sunday December 14 2008 'Hiya Johnny, Happy Christmas," said I to Johnny as I breezed into his room to administer medication. "Feck off !" retorted Johnny as he launched his walking stick with admirable... 'Child Sex Offender' Murdered [London] The Press Association Friday, December 12 2008 A man thought to be a child sex offender was found hacked to death in his caravan. The victim was 52-year-old Andrew Cunningham, according to the Sun. He died after suffering... Members of 'secretive' Redress Board paid an average of €135k Membership & of the Board The Redress Board, which was established on 16th December 2002 under the provisions of section 3 of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (The Act), consists of a Chairperson and 11 ordinary members... Calls to publish report into Cloyne sex abuse claims By Mary Regan, Political Reporter Irish Examiner12 December 2008 A potentially explosive report into the mishandling of sex abuse allegations in the diocese of Cloyne was given to the Government five months ago but has yet to be... TEXAS "ABUSE": Anti-Polygamy Activist To Be Deposed in FLDS Case by Ben Winslow, Deseret News, December 11, 2008 A judge has ordered an anti-polygamy activist to give a deposition about conversations she had with the woman suspected of making hoax phone calls that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist... DE LA SALLE BROTHER NOT GUILTY OF ABUSE QUOTE: "The now 36-year-old man told Éanna Mulloy SC, prosecuting, that he "blanked" the alleged abuse during the 1980s out of his mind."This appears to be another "Recovered Memory" case. It also follows the standard pattern under which the... GAY MARRIAGE PROTESTS: Becket Fund Launches Defense of Mormons Dec 8, 2008 No Mob Veto, a project of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, was launched today (Dec. 5, 2008) with a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. The ad deplored "The violence and intimidation... GAY MARRIAGE PROTEST: El Coyote Manager Resigns Over Prop 8 Lisa Derrick, Huffington Post 9 December 2009Marjorie Christoffersen is stepping down as a manager at the Los Angeles restaurant El Coyote. Christoffersen created a firestorm of controversy for the 77-year-old L.A. institution after local blogs broke the news she... GAY MARRIAGE: A Response to Marc Shaiman's Musical Against Prop 8by Dennis Prager Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Townhall.Com Marc Shaiman, the Tony Award-winning composer of the film and stage musical "Hairspray," has done the country a major, if inadvertent, service. He has composed a brief musical piece against California Proposition... Top Cop Drafted Into Jersey Probe Wiltshire Times, Friday 5th December 2008 Brian Moore THE chief constable of Wiltshire Police, Brian Moore, has been appointed to conduct a discipline inquiry into the conduct of the top police officer in Jersey.Graham Power, chief officer of the... Jersey Police Chief Faces Inquiry BBC News, 5 December 2008 The investigation at Haut de la Garenne cost £4.5mThe chief constable of Wiltshire is to lead a discipline inquiry into the conduct of the chief officer of Jersey police.Brian Moore will look at the... JERSEY: Childcare In Crisis? by Andy Sibcy, The Jersey Evening Post, 3rd December, 2008 IISLAND social workers are having to juggle almost twice the number of childcare cases recommended following the death in the UK of Victoria Climbié.The Jeresy Evening Post has learned... JERSEY: Murder, They Wrote JERSEY: Murder, They Wrote Peter Wilby, The Guardian (UK), December 1 2008 Last month, Jersey police announced that, so far as they could establish, there was no torture and no murder at the Haut de la Garenne children's care... When Bad Workers Play The Race Card Sunday Independent, 30 November 2008 'YOU'RE nothing but an Irish racist bully; you talk down to me because I'm black!" I stayed seated at my desk while the outraged nurse towered above me. With her arms akimbo and voice-a-bellow,... |