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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



Showing posts with label Catholic bishops child abuse Archbishop Nichols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic bishops child abuse Archbishop Nichols. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 April 2010

Where's the real penance?

From The Times
April 22, 2010
Please forgive us: Catholic bishops’ deep sorrow for decades of child sex abuse
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent, and Richard Owen in Rome

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7104305.ece

The Catholic Church beats its breast without doing much in the way of real penance. As I told the Archbishop http://millstonesblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-letter-to-archbishop.html I would like his archdiocese to open up an archive of material, copied to the police, going back to the 1950s or earlier. I don't know whether such an idea is practicable, but the Church could at least consider it.
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