Above: Coat of arms of Bishop Declan Lang, Bishop of Clifton
On 26 April 2010 12:21, Bishop of Clifton
Dear Michael
Thank you for your email. Like Archbishop Vincent Nichols I am sorry to hear of your past experiences and the deep wound that this must have caused. I have forwarded your email to our own Diocesan Safeguarding Officer. I am sure that she will be able to tell me the best way forward as to your suggestions. Meanwhile you may have heard from the Safeguarding Office for the Archdiocese of Westminster.
With my best wishes
Yours sincerely
Bishop of Clifton
26 April 2010
Dear Declan
Thank you for your prompt reply. I wondered whether we should have been on first name terms from the start, having seen that you were at Royal Holloway, or RHC as it was. I arrived in the first year of men, and extended my stay having changed my course and then embarked on postgrad work. My wife Anthea, who read English at RHC, thinks she remembers you. I wonder whether you came across the History Department's Henry Will, whom I knew as a former pupil of The Oratory School, where I was sent after Prior Park.
I look forward to being contacted by your Diocesan Safeguarding Officer. I have been in touch with Graham Wilmer, author of the book Conspiracy of Faith, who as you may know has been asked by Archbishop Nichols to look at how the Church can support the national commission idea that he has proposed (http://www.ctruk.org.uk/ ).
The internet age in which we live offers the Church every possibility of openness and transparency in dealing with this issue of historic clerical child abuse and the way in which it was systematically covered up or ignored in the past.
I'm delighted to note that thanks to the internet I can see on Prior Park Prep School's website how things have changed for the better, and how as a parent I would be happy to send my children there.
Best wishes
Michael
Thank you for your prompt reply. I wondered whether we should have been on first name terms from the start, having seen that you were at Royal Holloway, or RHC as it was. I arrived in the first year of men, and extended my stay having changed my course and then embarked on postgrad work. My wife Anthea, who read English at RHC, thinks she remembers you. I wonder whether you came across the History Department's Henry Will, whom I knew as a former pupil of The Oratory School, where I was sent after Prior Park.
I look forward to being contacted by your Diocesan Safeguarding Officer. I have been in touch with Graham Wilmer, author of the book Conspiracy of Faith, who as you may know has been asked by Archbishop Nichols to look at how the Church can support the national commission idea that he has proposed (http://www.ctruk.org.uk/ ).
The internet age in which we live offers the Church every possibility of openness and transparency in dealing with this issue of historic clerical child abuse and the way in which it was systematically covered up or ignored in the past.
I'm delighted to note that thanks to the internet I can see on Prior Park Prep School's website how things have changed for the better, and how as a parent I would be happy to send my children there.
Best wishes
Michael
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