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"" Canon Law continues to be used as an excuse for why best practice in child protection cannot be adopted across the Irish Catholic Church. It is one of the excuses offered as an explanation for the Church’s rejection of the recommendations of the Lynott Working Group. We are asked to accept that Church leaders cannot consent to the surrender of any decision making power to professionals working for the Church. We are told that this, and

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!! THE LAW OF THE LAND IS THE LAW !! And would that be the 1908 Childrens Act you'd be talking about ? That's the law that put most of us into the Child Gulags . There was an attempt to change this law and make it more "modern" in the 1940's (Childrens Act 1940) - but when the father of 4 children tried to retrieve his children from the Gulags the religious order refused to hand HIS children over to him. A sub

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On this side of the pond, they don't like to advertise the fact that America is the free-est and most generous nation of them all. It's sheltered people from every nation on the earth and still does. As for American Presidents, the europeans thought they could dominate Kennedy - they couldn't, they thought they could look down their noses at Reagan - he came to stand head and shoulders above them, they thought Clinton was a pushover but he remained h

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Cleaner ‘abused children in church’ Enda Leahy THE first case of alleged sexual abuse of a child in a sanctified church building will go to trial in the central criminal court in Dublin later this year. A Donegal man, who was employed as a cleaner by the Catholic church, faces 13 counts of sexual assault and rape. He is expected to plead not guilty to the charges. Colm O’Gorman, the founder and head of One in Four, the Iris

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Archbishop McQuaid of Dublin was contacted in 1960 by the Gardaí who had discovered pornographic photographs which were being developed in England for a priest who was then chaplain to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin. Archbishop McQuaid interviewed the priest, Fr Paul McGennis , and " arranged for him to have treatment which was considered successful at the time ". (Raftery & O'Sullivan 1999:256) It is eviden

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I suppose a benefit concert for Rory is out of the question .......... ? Maybe a garage auction where you could get rid of all the junk you don't need .... that laptop would be first on my list, .......

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Reply to It's the little things... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

QUOTE Romance isn't always about grandiose gestures. It's not always about down-on-one knee proposals and magnificent public declarations of everlasting, undying love. Love doesn't always require huge diamonds.... UNQUOTE !!!!!! I knew I was approaching it the wrong way !!!!!!

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A DAY IN THE LIFE:> 1964 in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

A DAY IN THE LIFE:> 1964 Some Autumn Day:- It's the time of the year when we'd be off picking the spuds and other stuff in our boots with leather laces, no "wet weather gear" I afraid Fr. O'Reilly! We'd start marching to the fields in pairs at 9:30am and would arrive at the fields at 10:00am or so. We'd be in the fields sometimes until 8:00 pm, depending on

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A DAY IN THE LIFE - 1958 in Religion JoeUser Forums

A DAY IN THE LIFE 1958: There is nothing these nuns hate more than the insolence of a child. Over their CHILD GULAG they had a Latin phrase which translated meant: I WILL TEACH YOU THE FEAR OF THE LORD. Of course all that Latin bullshit was beyond me as a five year old - well most of it - the bit that I could grasp told me that this Lord was a bullshit arti

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Reply to Thoughts on the President's Inauguration Speech in Politics JoeUser Forums

IF GWB is serious ....... be afraid Saudia Arabia, be afraid Pakistan, be afraid Egypt, be afraid Russia.........be afraid America , , , , , , , , , , But then again the Military Industrial Complex never had ANY PROBLEM sacrificing the lives of American youth so than they can add an extra wing on their Malibu Mansions. I think GWB should take a leaf out of Ronld Reagan's book and only pick fights with .... Cuban construction workers in Grenada

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Reply to Child Gulags in CursorFX JoeUser Forums

Dear Florence Having read and re-read the latest transcripts from the "child abuse" Commission I have come across a possible glaring mis-carriage of justice. A letter was produced by the Department for Education and parts of the letter contain the usual stuff about the Minister being "gravely concerned at the evidence which has been reaching him for a considerable time of the malnutrition of children in industrial schools" and using phrases

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Reply to Gross Malnutrition of Children By Religious Orders in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Dear Florence Having read and re-read the latest transcripts from the "child abuse" Commission I have come across a possible glaring mis-carriage of justice. A letter was produced by the Department for Education and parts of the letter contain the usual stuff about the Minister being "gravely concerned at the evidence which has been reaching him for a considerable time of the malnutrition of children in industrial schools" and using phrases

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The Flo Tom and James Soap Opera. Part One - The Beginning. Once upon a time, long long ago, far, far away on the other side of the great forest there lived a group of Snurrrberrels who thought nothing of washing your socks AND filling your pipe and all at the same time. Why these Snurrrberrels were the bee end of all things to do with the care and protection of the little Lubbellymucktops , L

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FROM THE Statement of the ROSMINIANS 5 Corporal Punishment - 5.1 Corporal punishment should be seen in an institutional context where the maintenance of control was an absolute necessity , .....The use of corporal punishment as a general disciplinary measure, and its use also as a punishment or deterrent for bedwetting , absconding and other infractions,.... So Bedwetting WAS AN INFRACTION OF THE REGULATIO

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