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		<title>Honesty and a commitment to justice would have more meaning than any meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of this article appeared in The Independent newspaper in the UK on April 19, 2010.
Given all we now know about the cover up of clerical sexual abuse by Rome it’s difficult to see what is significant about the Pope’s meeting with a small number of victims in Malta over the weekend. I [...]

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		<title>Papal letter is neither unprecedented nor a significant step forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of this article was published in Th Independent newspaper (UK) on March 22nd 2010. 
On Saturday Pope Benedict XVI published his letter to the Irish Church on the issue of child abuse. What was necessary seemed clear. As Pope, acknowledge the cover up by Roman Catholic Church of the rape and abuse of [...]

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		<title>A response to the Papal letter to the &#8216;Irish Faithful&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Below is a response to the Papal letter issued to the &#8216;Irish Faithful&#8217; earlier today that I recorded for the PM programme on BBC Radio 4. 
Its a first response, I will post a more detailed response soon. The full text of the Papal letter is available here.
 
“God’s justice summons us to give an account [...]

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		<title>What the Pope must say in his pastoral letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edited version of the following comment piece appeared in the UK Independent newspaper on March 20th 2010.
Link here.
It was not being raped by a priest at the age of 14 that shattered my faith; it was the horrifying realisation that the Catholic Church had wilfully, knowingly abandoned me to it, the knowledge that they had ordained the priest [...]

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		<title>Don&#8217;t rush to judgement of Cardinal Brady on latest case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another case involving Cardinal Sean Brady, a Priest accused of sexual assaults and a confidentiality agreement is breaking in the news.
But I would urge caution in any rush to judgment of the actions of Cardinal Brady in this latest case.
At first glance it appears damning. A woman who has reported an allegation of  serious sexual assault by a named priest sued [...]

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		<title>A response to Cardinal Brady&#8217;s homily</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened very carefully to what Cardinal Sean Brady had to say in his homily delivered earlier today in St Patricks Cathedral, Armagh. I downloaded the text and read and re-read it several times. I wanted to ensure that I was being as objective as possible, really listening to both what was said and how [...]

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		<title>It appears Sean Brady may have committed a criminal offence in 1975 afterall.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got got taught another lesson about the power of social networks and new media when I popped onto my Facebook page a few moments ago. All day we have been hearing apologists for Cardinal Sean Brady assert that he committed no crime when he swore to child victims of sexual assault to secrecy [...]

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		<title>Child sex abuse was always a crime, even in 1975.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Opinion piece written for the Irish Daily Star, published March 15 2010
I was nine in 1975. Liam Cosgrave was Taoiseach and Dr Dermot Ryan was Archbishop of Dublin. The Bay City Rollers were topping the music charts and ‘Jaws’ was terrifying cinema goers everywhere. It was a different time and a very different Ireland; one where [...]

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		<title>Spin, spin and more spin, Cardinal Brady fights to dodge responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday when it was revealed that he had been a church appointed investigator into complaints by two children that had been abused by Fr Brendan Smyth, Cardinal Sean Brady told RTE that he had been following his Bishop&#8217;s orders and there were no guidelines for dealing with such investigations at that time.
A statement released by [...]

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		<title>So just how much did the Pope know about clerical sexual abuse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the original version of an Op ed written for The Independent newspaper. An edited version was published in the March 9th edition of the paper, link here.
The recent revelations that the brother of Pope Benedict XVI may be called upon to testify in the growing child sexual abuse scandal in the German Catholic [...]

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		<title>Sinead O&#8217;Connor on the Diocese of Ferns plea for support</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a call from Sinead O&#8217;Connor last night who wanted to communicate her own strong sense of outrage at the call from Bishop of Ferns, Dr Dennis Brennan for parishioners to donate money to meet the financial costs of that diocese&#8217;s negligence in dealing with clerical child sexual abuse.
Here is what Sinead wanted to say:
&#8220;Please allow [...]

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		<title>Let the Church pay for the cost of its own crimes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comment piece written for the Irish Daily Mail in response to reports that the Bishop of Ferns wants parishioners to contribute to the ongoing costs arising from the negligent handling of clerical sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church authorities.
In 1998 I first heard that the Diocese of Ferns had known that Fr Sean Fortune [...]

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		<title>I&#8217;m not Catholic anymore&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an essay I contributed to a book &#8216;What being Catholic means to me&#8217;, published by Columba Press last year. 
I’m not catholic anymore. I never formally quit the church or anything, I just came to realise that I was no longer part of it. I didn’t write to a bishop or the Pope, didn’t [...]

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		<title>Since when did the offendors get to dictate the pace of healing for their victims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it struck anyone else as obscene that in their rush to rationalise the abject failure of the Pope to properly address the deliberate cover up of the rape and abuse of children by Roman Catholic Priests, Irish Bishops seem to be suggesting that victims must be patient and wait for the Vatican’s grand design [...]

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		<title>The cover up of clerical child abuse &#8220;the problem of one country&#8221; says the Vatican</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its Christmas Eve and I have just done two radio interviews for the BBC following the resignation of the Bishop of Kildare. Bishop Moriarty resigned four weeks after the publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation into child abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.
He was the second bishop to resign, Donal Murray quit last [...]

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		<title>Bishop Murray resigns but has anything changed really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past seven years we have now seen the resignations of four bishops in Ireland who have been implicated in the mismanagement of child sexual abuse by priests of the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Brendan Comiskey resigned in April 2002 after his resignation was sought by the Vatican under a code of canon law [...]

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		<title>Bishop Eamonn Walsh faces further questions on child abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have read the article I wrote for the Irish Times this week where I made the point that responsibility for covering up child abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin was not limited to Bishop Donal Murray but had to be shared by all those in positions of leadership in the Archdiocese.
In particular I [...]

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		<title>No acknowledgement of responsibility by the Vatican but the Pope will write a letter. So all&#8217;s well then?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Sean Bready met with Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the report of the Commission of Investigation into clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.
After their meeting the Vatican issued the following statement:


Today the Holy Father held a meeting with senior Irish Bishops and high-ranking members of the [...]

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		<title>All bishops share in collective failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scale and deliberate nature of the cover-up revealed by the Murphy report has left many people outraged and, quite understandably, there have been vociferous calls for accountability. In the white heat of the past week much of the outrage has been directed at Bishop of Limerick Dr Donal Murray, who now seems set to resign, [...]

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		<title>Bishops lied and covered up abuse but are unlikely to face prosecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrifying contents of the Dublin Archdiocese report and the sheer scale of the cover up have shocked Irish society even after the Ryan report last May and the Ferns report in 2005.
Bishops in Dublin colluded with child abusers, protecting them and hiding them, enabling them to prey on the innocent. Children were deliberately sacrificed [...]

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		<title>The lies and deceit of the Roman Catholic Church revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article for the Irish Daily Mail, published on May 27th 2009.
They lied, at times by omission, at times by distorting the truth and at times just blatantly. The most senior leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland lied to and deceived us all, and sacrificed children in the interests of their authority and most [...]

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		<title>The Dublin report will shock us all</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An op ed I wrote for the Irish Daily Star which was published today. The report was published this afternoon. More to follow on the report later.
It can be downloaded here.
Even after the Ryan report last May and the Ferns Report in 2005, the contents of the Dublin Diocese report, the scale of the cover-up, [...]

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		<title>So what was I going to say that was so inappropriate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the unique experience of being “uninvited” from taking part in a Mass of Healing and Reconciliation planned by Fr Iggy O&#8217;Donovan at the Augustinian Church in Drogheda. It seems the Archdiocese of Armagh, led by Cardinal Sean Brady, believes there was something “inappropriate” about the invitation and instructed Fr O’Donovan to withdraw [...]

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