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‘Did You Like It?’
Raymond Newton (right) claimed Pell (left) asked him if he had “enjoyed” the abuse he suffered at school. Tomorrow, Former Archbishop of Sydney George Pell will be sentenced for child sexual abuse...
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A Yellow Divestment
Further to ongoing scaremongering in Catholic schools in north Dublin. Emer O’Toole, in The Guardian, writes: Incomprehensibly, the state all but handed over administration of the divestment process...
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All Roads Lead To Tone
From top: ‘The Death of Wolf Tone’ by Walter Mills (1897); Michael McDowell in last night’s ‘Rome Vs Republic’ documentary on RTÉ 1 ‘Our starting point was in Paris. We wanted to challenge the viewer...
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Modus Operandi
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster The Archbishop of Westminster was focused on protecting the church’s reputation over the welfare of children, an inquiry into child sexual abuse has...
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The Boys Club
The location of the hostel in Eccles Street, Dublin 1. It was demolished when the Mater Hospital was built The Irish Mirror yesterday revealed that Gardai believe they’ve uncovered a paedophile ring...
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Intimations Of Mortality
John Waters ‘For more than a hundred days I have been ill with a condition called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a rare and unpleasant viral thing—dormant chicken pox that reactivates in a hapless few, years...
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“Final Line Of Least Resistance”
Martin and Mary McAleese This morning. Patsy McGarry, in The Irish Times, reports that former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has threatened to leave the Catholic Church. It follows an inquiry...
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From top: Pope Francis; Irish Catholic Bishops Conference in St Patrick’s College Maynooth in 2013 This morning/afternoon. Via The Irish Times: It is “morally permissible” for Catholics to accept a...
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This morning. An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims from 1950 to 2020, a “massive phenomenon” that...
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