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Follow the digest on twitter. It truly is the most horrific litany of abuse. There will be posts to follow this evening – the report is available from here. With a digest from the IT here.
Readers might like to take a look at the means they have for allowing themselves to lie to the public. Mental reservation.
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The most shocking thing is, I am not that shocked by it all. What ever diocese is up next more of the same will be revealed. If one diocese does not have a shameful record. Then I will be shocked.
I refuse to be deceived. There are many who wish to profit from causing chaos and destruction. Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing!
I refuse to be deceived. There are many who wish to profit from causing chaos and destruction. Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing!
What you talkin’ ’bout, Crazy Man?
‘Mental reservation’ – that’s a handy one, right enough. So a statement like “I always pay my bills” translates to “I always pay my bills, except for the ones I received this morning.”
A moral justification of the ‘white lie’; a statement deliberately constructed to mislead, distort, fall short of anything approaching the substantive truth, is summed up in this noxious concept. Except that all the lies were black, the distortions designed to belittle and besmirch the credibility of victims of the most foul crimes imaginable, to make these irritating little people of no consequence go away lest their complaints might undermine the power and majesty and controlling influence of the Catholic Church in Irish Society, a nuancing of the facts to protect criminals. All about power, really, isn’t it?
My fear is that after the media frenzy dies down this will just be quitely forgotten. We need to see priests and bishops in court. Canon law doesn’t cut it on this one (if it ever did)
Also we need to be careful with any move for compensation. The victims of these evil men should be compensated but not at the taxpayer’s expense. As a taxpayer in recent years I have bailed out egotistical developers, corrupt bankers, greedy tribunal lawyers, abusive religious organisations. I have been punished even though I did nothing wrong. No more. I am not bailing out these evil priests. I am not taking their punishment on my shoulders. We should liquidate the assets of the church in Ireland before the taxpayer is asked to pay a cent.
Finally can anyone tell me what Nell McCaffrey thinks she is doing trying to dominate the airwaves on this issue (on the back of her self-promoting performance at the press conference yesterday she has been on a number of TV and radio shows). I know she has a talent for “self importance” and has an old axe to grind with the Catholic church but in this case she should have the good grace (for once in her life) to step aside and let the victims speak before she starts elbowing them out of her way in a rush to the microphone.
Colm, ‘free ‘ airwaves do not refuse voices. It’s the imperative to fill radio silence that leads producers to call her up and ask her to repeat what she said yesterday.
Nell McCafferty has nothing to offer and never had. Re the calls for bishop’s resignations, I can understand their mishandling of the complaints 30 years ago (culture , fear of their superiors,ignorance) but NOTHING, NOTHING can excuse any failure to co-operate fully with the enquiry. Lack of co-operation should be an instant resigning matter and that includes failure of full disclosure to this audit that the HSE are conducting