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...
by soconaill | Jul 9, 2021 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, Safeguarding, WithSidebar
Are most of us without a ‘vocation’ to ‘the Christian life’? Dr Thomas O’Loughlin protests this mistaken understanding of ‘Vocations Sunday’ – as revealed by the global Covid-19 Crisis of 2020-21 – and calls for a...
by soconaill | Feb 23, 2021 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, Safeguarding
In 1964, just three years short of ordination to the priesthood, the Jesuit scholastic Ken McCabe spent a week in Daingean reformatory, Co Offaly. Shocked at what he saw as the under-resourcing of the institution and the consequent impact on the staff and the boys...
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