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Irish abuse survivor wants an action plan from the pope, not an apology
"Archbishop Philip Wilson sentenced for concealing child sex abuse
"Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson found guilty of covering up child sexual abuse""
Inés San Martín
Aug 21, 2018
ROME BUREAU CHIEF
Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins after speaking with Crux in Dublin on August 19, 2018,
ahead of the World Meeting of Families. (Crux/Inés San Martín.)
DUBLIN - As Pope Francis heads to Dublin this coming weekend to close a World Meeting of Families that begins Wednesday, much of the attention has been on how he’ll tackle the clerical sexual abuse crisis, which has scarred the local Church here arguably like nowhere else in the world.
Some abuse survivors even called for Pope Francis not to come to Ireland Aug. 25-26, and several boycott initiatives have hit social media in recent weeks.
Yet Marie Collins, an abuse survivor who played a key role in uncovering predator priests by pushing for the 2009 Murphy Report, says that “I don’t object to the visit,” nor does she question those who, having held on to their faith, want to attend the papal events.
She did say, however, that she’ll be paying careful attention to what the pope has to say.
“I do feel that as a country that has been devastated over the last 20 years by revelations about clerical sexual abuse, it’s extremely important that when he comes here, of all places, he doesn’t ignore the issue,” Collins told Crux on Sunday.
The pope’s motive for coming to Ireland is the World Meeting of Families, and Collins argues that nowhere does this crisis hit as close to home as in families.
“It would be appropriate that while he’s here talking to families from all parts of the world, he addressed the issue,” she said, adding that she doesn’t want “a lot more apologies,” but to know what Francis “is going to do and how soon he’s going to do it.”
Crux spoke with Collins in Dublin, ahead of the World Meeting of Families, where she will be on a panel on safeguarding children that should have been moderated by American Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, but last week he pulled out to address allegations of abuse in his own diocesan seminary.
The conversation took place before Francis issued a 2,000-word letter to the People of God on the abuse crisis. The following combines remarks Collins made in an interview for the Crux site, and also for “The Crux of the Matter” program on the Catholic Channel Sirius XM 129 that airs Mondays at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Crux: Many Catholic families would like to trust the institution again. Is there something that Pope Francis can say or do to help?
Collins: I don’t know. I reflect that position, because that is really where I am. I haven’t lost my faith and my belief in God and the basic teachings of the Catholic Church, but I have no faith in the institutional hierarchical Church. And that’s where a lot of people are.
I think that to restore faith, trust and respect, he has to show that there’s no place in the Church for members of the hierarchy who in any way facilitate or enable for abuse to happen. Because as long as that goes on, and those men who allow abuse are facilitated to remain within the Church or in positions of leadership within the Church, respect will not be restored.
The only thing that will restore respect is to see those men properly dealt with by the Church in an open and clear manner, and to have consequences for their actions that are strong and public. They need to prove that the Church is serious in cutting [abuse] out of the Church.
Without airbrushing the Church’s responsibility, how important is it for society at large to demand civil authorities to act?
https://cruxnow.com/wmf-ireland/2018/08/21/irish-abuse-survivor-wants-an-action-plan-from-the-pope-not-an-apology/
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Irish PM tells pope action must follow words on tackling abuse
August 25, 2018 / 10:48 PM / Updated 12 hours ago
Reuters Staff
1 Min Read
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Leo Varadkar used the first papal visit to Ireland in 39 years to tell Pope Francis that the wounds
of clerical child abuse that stained the Irish state were still open and action needed to follow words to deal with the issue.
Pope Francis is greeted by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle during his visit to Dublin, Ireland, August 25, 2018.
REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
“Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, industrial schools, illegal adoptions and clerical child abuse are stains on our state, our society and also the Catholic Church. Wounds are still open and there is much to be done to bring about justice and truth and healing for victims and survivors,” Varadkar told a state reception attended by the pope.
“Holy Father, I ask that you use your office and influence to ensure this is done here in Ireland and across the world ... We must now ensure that from words flow actions.”
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-ireland-varadkar/irish-pm-tells-pope-action-must-follow-words-on-tackling-abuse-idUKKCN1LA0E8
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Pope in Ireland: Francis Meets Church Abuse Victims
By THE NEW YORK TIMES UPDATED 11:08 AM
[...]
Francis, who last week lamented that “we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them,” met with abuse
survivors in Ireland, but there was no mention of the topic in his official public schedule for the trip.
[...]
In the first speech of his visit, the pope acknowledged “the abuse of young people by members of the church” and the church’s failure to “address these repugnant crimes.”
He gave no hint of the kind of new measures that victims have demanded in response to the scandals, and praised the steps taken by his
predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, to prevent the abuses from being repeated. Many abuse survivors have described the church’s actions as inadequate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/world/europe/pope-francis-ireland-visit-live.html
See also:
fuagf,...this is pure sickness ! for this pope to allow these actions to continue on his watch, literally, he needs to be taken to task.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142990102
All Fixed!
Pope Francis Urges Catholics to Pray and Fast in Response to Child Sex Abuse
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143043865
i've read quite a bit of the popes recent letter addressing the sexual abuse blight,...
what a bunch of crap !
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143054379
even if a multitude of parishioners leave the church is won't affect it one bit - I'm not so sure about that...Take Boston, for example
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143056525
Nothing will change overnight and I blame church "leadership" - I like the petition that's circulating calling on ALL U.S. bishops to resign...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143063667
"Archbishop Philip Wilson sentenced for concealing child sex abuse
"Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson found guilty of covering up child sexual abuse""
Inés San Martín
Aug 21, 2018
ROME BUREAU CHIEF
Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins after speaking with Crux in Dublin on August 19, 2018,
ahead of the World Meeting of Families. (Crux/Inés San Martín.)
DUBLIN - As Pope Francis heads to Dublin this coming weekend to close a World Meeting of Families that begins Wednesday, much of the attention has been on how he’ll tackle the clerical sexual abuse crisis, which has scarred the local Church here arguably like nowhere else in the world.
Some abuse survivors even called for Pope Francis not to come to Ireland Aug. 25-26, and several boycott initiatives have hit social media in recent weeks.
Yet Marie Collins, an abuse survivor who played a key role in uncovering predator priests by pushing for the 2009 Murphy Report, says that “I don’t object to the visit,” nor does she question those who, having held on to their faith, want to attend the papal events.
She did say, however, that she’ll be paying careful attention to what the pope has to say.
“I do feel that as a country that has been devastated over the last 20 years by revelations about clerical sexual abuse, it’s extremely important that when he comes here, of all places, he doesn’t ignore the issue,” Collins told Crux on Sunday.
The pope’s motive for coming to Ireland is the World Meeting of Families, and Collins argues that nowhere does this crisis hit as close to home as in families.
“It would be appropriate that while he’s here talking to families from all parts of the world, he addressed the issue,” she said, adding that she doesn’t want “a lot more apologies,” but to know what Francis “is going to do and how soon he’s going to do it.”
Crux spoke with Collins in Dublin, ahead of the World Meeting of Families, where she will be on a panel on safeguarding children that should have been moderated by American Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, but last week he pulled out to address allegations of abuse in his own diocesan seminary.
The conversation took place before Francis issued a 2,000-word letter to the People of God on the abuse crisis. The following combines remarks Collins made in an interview for the Crux site, and also for “The Crux of the Matter” program on the Catholic Channel Sirius XM 129 that airs Mondays at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Crux: Many Catholic families would like to trust the institution again. Is there something that Pope Francis can say or do to help?
Collins: I don’t know. I reflect that position, because that is really where I am. I haven’t lost my faith and my belief in God and the basic teachings of the Catholic Church, but I have no faith in the institutional hierarchical Church. And that’s where a lot of people are.
I think that to restore faith, trust and respect, he has to show that there’s no place in the Church for members of the hierarchy who in any way facilitate or enable for abuse to happen. Because as long as that goes on, and those men who allow abuse are facilitated to remain within the Church or in positions of leadership within the Church, respect will not be restored.
The only thing that will restore respect is to see those men properly dealt with by the Church in an open and clear manner, and to have consequences for their actions that are strong and public. They need to prove that the Church is serious in cutting [abuse] out of the Church.
Without airbrushing the Church’s responsibility, how important is it for society at large to demand civil authorities to act?
https://cruxnow.com/wmf-ireland/2018/08/21/irish-abuse-survivor-wants-an-action-plan-from-the-pope-not-an-apology/
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Irish PM tells pope action must follow words on tackling abuse
August 25, 2018 / 10:48 PM / Updated 12 hours ago
Reuters Staff
1 Min Read
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Leo Varadkar used the first papal visit to Ireland in 39 years to tell Pope Francis that the wounds
of clerical child abuse that stained the Irish state were still open and action needed to follow words to deal with the issue.
Pope Francis is greeted by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle during his visit to Dublin, Ireland, August 25, 2018.
REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
“Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, industrial schools, illegal adoptions and clerical child abuse are stains on our state, our society and also the Catholic Church. Wounds are still open and there is much to be done to bring about justice and truth and healing for victims and survivors,” Varadkar told a state reception attended by the pope.
“Holy Father, I ask that you use your office and influence to ensure this is done here in Ireland and across the world ... We must now ensure that from words flow actions.”
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-ireland-varadkar/irish-pm-tells-pope-action-must-follow-words-on-tackling-abuse-idUKKCN1LA0E8
-
Pope in Ireland: Francis Meets Church Abuse Victims
By THE NEW YORK TIMES UPDATED 11:08 AM
[...]
Francis, who last week lamented that “we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them,” met with abuse
survivors in Ireland, but there was no mention of the topic in his official public schedule for the trip.
[...]
In the first speech of his visit, the pope acknowledged “the abuse of young people by members of the church” and the church’s failure to “address these repugnant crimes.”
He gave no hint of the kind of new measures that victims have demanded in response to the scandals, and praised the steps taken by his
predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, to prevent the abuses from being repeated. Many abuse survivors have described the church’s actions as inadequate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/world/europe/pope-francis-ireland-visit-live.html
See also:
fuagf,...this is pure sickness ! for this pope to allow these actions to continue on his watch, literally, he needs to be taken to task.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142990102
All Fixed!
Pope Francis Urges Catholics to Pray and Fast in Response to Child Sex Abuse
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143043865
i've read quite a bit of the popes recent letter addressing the sexual abuse blight,...
what a bunch of crap !
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143054379
even if a multitude of parishioners leave the church is won't affect it one bit - I'm not so sure about that...Take Boston, for example
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143056525
Nothing will change overnight and I blame church "leadership" - I like the petition that's circulating calling on ALL U.S. bishops to resign...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=143063667
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