Below you find the full report published at WikiLeaks concerning the handling of, what is called the “Sex Abuse Scandal”, by the Vatican. It is not up to me to advise you to mistrust your politicians, but it you read this report and how the physical or sexual abuse of…
Reuters – Monday, August 29, 2011 – by Andrew Stern; Editing by Cynthia Johnston CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago’s Catholic archdiocese will allow dozens of former priests accused of child sexual abuse to be identified as part of a settlement that moves the church closer to naming all offending clergy, a…
by Beau Donelly – 30 August 2011 The church in cahoots with the legal profession to further compound abuse of victims – MP’s what are you doing? From 1969 to 1988 Christian Brother Robert Best sexually assaulted 11 boys in his care. Decades later his victims are still struggling with…
Boston Globe – August 25, 2011 by Michael Rezendes Nearly 10 years after a worldwide clergy sexual abuse crisis erupted in the Boston Archdiocese, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley yesterday released a long-awaited list of 159 archdiocesan clerics who have been accused of sexually abusing children. But critics quickly called the…
The UK National Secular Society has submitted a 50 page report to the Social Rights Committee of the Council of Europe severely critical of the Irish government’s subservience to the Catholic Church over many decades in respect of child abuse. The report was prepared by the NSS’s Executive Director, Keith…
Looking back at when I went to London last year to speak at the pope protest, I think I was ill equipped, and had not thought how it would effect me. I had just “come out” publicly with my abuses, after it was highlighted in a magazine article. I don’t…
This is probably how it is going to be…me writing about a day, a day late. Actually I shouldn’t. It would be so much better to finish the day thinking about every thing that has happened and to close the day consciously of everybody and everything. Unfortunately that will rarely…
August 23rd. First day!! After talking to a fellow abuse survivor in depth about his story today, I was left with that now familiar “see saw ” feeling emotions. I still get so angry when I see the dismissal of people by the catholic church, human beings who have been…
So…now we have done it. We have put our diaries online. We have spoken about it for months: wouldn’t it be great to share our ramblings and our daily discussions via Skype, with others. Unknown, anonymous, people sitting in their own house in their own world in their own life,…
by Ton Leerschool – Survivors Voice Europe Because the voices of the survivors must be heard. Today the 2011 World Youth Day comes to an end. Seven days of indoctrination, stale excuses for the over 2000 years of catholic terror, empty rethorics about ‘truth’ and ‘christian behaviour’, recrutement by Opus…
