by soconaill | Dec 19, 2022 | Abuse, Articles, Featured
Are Irish bishops truly serious in echoing the view of Ireland’s National Synodal Synthesis – that a conclusive ‘reckoning’ on the issue of clerical sexual abuse of children has yet to happen in the church? If so will they now call upon the...
by soconaill | Sep 22, 2022 | Abuse, News, WithSidebar
The Catholic Church body organising the 2023 Universal Synod on Synodality in Rome has strongly deplored the church’s ‘oppressive’ abuse of power in the past and re-emphasised the principle of the equality of dignity of all baptised members of the...
by soconaill | Aug 17, 2022 | Abuse, News, Safeguarding, Synodal Pathway, WithSidebar
Irish Synodal Pathway Submission on behalf of a group of those who experienced abuse in a Church context This report This report is the outcome of a process of consultation with a group of survivors who were asked to reflect on their experiences and what the Church...
by soconaill | Jul 23, 2022 | Abuse, News, Synodal Pathway, WithSidebar
In a clear ‘shot across the bow’ of Germany’s ‘Synodal Path’ process – ongoing since 2019 – a Vatican statement has warned that nothing decided by Catholics in Germany alone can lawfully bind Germany’s bishops, who are...
by soconaill | Jun 20, 2022 | Abuse, News, Safeguarding, WithSidebar
After 40 years of controversy there is still no academic certainty on how to ensure the safeguarding of the most vulnerable members of the church. This is the conclusion of Fr Hans Zollner SJ, advisor to Pope Francis and director of the church’s central advisory...
by soconaill | Apr 2, 2022 | Abuse, News
Dr Margaret Kennedy is a survivor of sexual abuse in early life, and a campaigner on behalf of other victims. Author of a seminal doctoral study of clergy abuse of women, she has also sought healing – for herself and others – in Christian liturgy and...
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