Crest of the Congregation of Christian Brothers

Crest of the Congregation of Christian Brothers
Neither Christian nor brotherly is how their victims see them

Millstones

This site focuses on allegations of abuse, physical and sexual, by the Irish Christian Brothers at schools in the UK. The majority of the Brothers were no doubt good teachers and kindly men, but a number of them should not have been allowed to be near children. Generally it appears that there was a culture of violence ingrained in the Congregation of Christian Brothers; it is unfortunate that so many teachers stood by and did nothing. As an ex-pupil has commented: " They could hardly claim to not know what went on; the sound of whole classrooms of kids being strapped could be heard very clearly in corridors and adjacent classrooms." If you would like to contribute and/or join the Millstones Facebook group email me mr.downes@gmail.com



Monday, 19 April 2010

A Bad Friday for the Catholic Church


















Above: Pope Benedict XVI
On Good Friday this year I was shocked to learn that the Pope's preacher, Father Cantalamessa, had compared criticism of the Catholic Church over child abuse to the "more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi8601084.stm

The next day I wrote to the Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, to reveal the abuse which I and my fellow-pupils had suffered at the hands of the Irish Christian Brothers at their prep school in Cricklade, Wiltshire, during the early 1950s.

Archbishop Nichols had already caught my eye with his denunciation of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace in August 2009. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6736463.ece

I'll be using Facebook in tandem with this site to draw attention to the sins of some of his fellow-Catholics at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=115726931786338&ref=ts

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