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• Police urged to probe priest abuse claims following Cardinal Sean Brady’s resignation refusal. 
• Incoming DUP health minister Jim Wells asks for the PSNI to investigate Cardinal Sean Brady?

• The Cardinal Sean Brady child abuse cover up scandal. Jim Wells, DUP  incoming health minister tables a question on the issue. CASNI comment: fast forward to two hours on the video to start the question.

• The rock Cardinal Sean Brady has perished on. 
• Cardinal Timothy Dolan upsets cult leaders in Ireland. 
• Leading Papal Aussie hypocrite dictates to the Irish people. 
• Ireland receives good news at last
• Leading U.S lawyer believes the churches much-loved and protected child rapist (Fr. Brendan Smyth) murdered a child
• The exposure of the child sex-abuse scandal committed by the paedophile Church of Rome has only begun. 

• Cardinal Sean Brady vows to remain as former RUC officer says failures let abuse go on. 
• Sex abuse undermined church: Pope. CASNI comment: The eucharistic congress was brought to Ireland in an attempt to divert the attention from the holocaust of child sex abuse and torture of Catholic children in Ireland, still to be exposed in northern
• Dutch Roman Catholic Church ‘castrated at least 10 boys’. CASNI comment: The Dutch Roman Catholic Church castrated victims of clerical orders to silence them. They got their warped, unbiblical teaching wrong. They should have castrated their paedophile Priests and Christian Brothers who blighted the lives of innocent children. Their darkness knows no bounds!

• Catholic leaders meet at Vatican conference to discuss pedophilia. CASNI comment: The Papal kabal gather to rid the world of child-raping Catholic priests and religious orders. A good place to start would be to give the governments the millions files you hold on your child abusing priests, nuns, and Christian Brothers and all the abusers you employed and then moved and covered up for over decades.

• Fears of ‘asset stripping’ as Church plans artefacts sale. THE Catholic Church is considering selling off valuable historical artefacts to help fund a new £4 million Scottish national headquarters after the property crash left it out of pocket. Mario Conti, the Archbishop of Glasgow, instructed the Scottish Catholic Archives to compile a list of the rarest and most valuable items in the Church’s collection and find out their potential value at auction. In what one historian yesterday described as “asset-stripping”, the Church is considering the sale of items such as a 16th-century book of hours – an illuminated manuscript of prayers and psalms belonging to the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots – to raise up to £1.5m.

 

• Dublin Mass attendances drop to an all-time low as just 14 percent go to Church. Bishop warns of biggest crisis since emancipation. CASNI comment: The Irish people have perhaps begun to realize that the Vatican’s unbiblical mass has nothing to offer but a life of deceit and empty pockets. This man-made religion has been exposed as being nothing more than a paedophile papal priesthood living in luxury.

• New Vatican envoy to Ireland is elevated to Archbishop. New York Irish American has trust and faith of Pope Benedict. CASNI comment: The pope’s friend and the Vatican’s arch-deceiver, the grinning new, silver fox heads for the shores of Ireland to try and improve the poor attempt to cover-up of child-rape in Ireland by the Catholic Church. But Enda is on the lookout mast and has both barrels loaded!! Considering that Northern Ireland has yet to be exposed for its child-torture and rape by the Vatican’s orders of priests, he had best wait before he looks up here.

• Irish Missionary faces damning allegations of child abuse in Chile. Columban priest under investigation by Church authorities. CASNI comment: Another Irish paedophile priest exposed, Father Healey of the Columban Fathers, and originally from Co. Kerry. The Catholic Church is a world leader in exporting paedophile priests around the globe.

• Dublin Archbishop tells lapsed Catholics to leave the Catholic Church. Now enough to just attend weddings, baptisms say church leaders. CASNI comment: Take his advice – get out, shout out, stay out!!!

• Cardinal Brady repeats apology offer to survivor over Brendan Smyth sexual abuse. After years of denials and concealment, private apology offered. CASNI comment: Cardinal Sean Brady refuses to publicly apologize to the child abuse victim he silenced in 1975. His actions as a canon lawyer allowed children to be abused across the island of Ireland. He has successfully prevented the Northern Ireland government making any public apology for their role in paying his church for the care of children who were abused, or holding a public inquiry into the abuse of innocent children since 1922.

• Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson play prepares to open in NYC. Production comes at a poignant time. CASNI comment: World famous actors Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson, who hails from Ballymena, open a show in New York, about the real-life experiences of Dublin Councillor Mannix Flynn’s abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Sure to be a great success! See also A searing portrait of abuse – Mannix Flynn’s one man show ‘James X’ in NYC.

• Up to 350 Irish priests were likely accused child abusers. New report shows it was far more than just a small element. CASNI comment: The Vatican’s National Board states that there were 350 child abusing priests in Ireland a shocking admission in itself! Yet the facts are that there are a few zeros missing in this revelation! Since Northern Ireland came into being in 1922 there have been no figures released on child abusing religious orders, priests, Sisters of Nazareth, and De la Salle Christian Brothers etc. To date, not one inquiry’s results have been released to the media. The last recorded one was in 1994. Thousands of statements were taken only to be covered up. The south of Ireland fared much better as they have had four public reports of a kind. Add all these together and you have hundreds of thousands of child abuse victims and tens of thousand of Catholic clergy abusers all across Ireland. Only an independent public inquiry by the Stormont Executive could disprove these claims. To date, they have refused to do so.

• Beyond the grave, Smyth’s evil acts have left his order with a huge cross to bear. With massive debt and dwindling numbers, the Norbertines have accepted their fate. CASNI comment: Fr. Cusack, you personally allowed your friend, Father Brendan Smyth to rape and sexually abuse children even after the silencing of two of his victims by Cardinal Brady, the great canon lawyer who recently had to give them half a million! You treated UTV and the media as vermin, and you blocked every attempt to contain Fr Smyth at every level. Even when priests heard children screaming in Kilnacrott Abbey as Father Brendan Smyth raped little boys and girls, you had them removed for exposing this. You hid the Vatican’s letters that stated the “beast of ballyjames” was to be caged within the devil’s playpen (the Abbey). You allowed Father Brendan Smyth to sexually abuse children through 1975 and many years after in Nazareth Lodge, Nazareth House, and parishes in Belfast and elsewhere, including schools and parish homes. All attempts for a public inquiry have been blocked by the Northern Ireland executive. Political parties loyal to the Catholic Church will protect “mother church” and the Protestant parties don’t want the truth to come out.

• Pressure on Cardinal Brady to make public apology to victim of Fr Brendan Smyth. Brendan Boland again rejects private meeting after settlement. CASNI comment: Apologize and resign Cardinal Brady!The man soley responsible for child-raping priests and religious orders roaming Ireland; his silencing of children sexually abused by Father Brendan Smyth in 1975 would have saved thousand of victims since then.
• Catholic church reveals 85 priests accused of abuse. CASNI comment: Take heed that no man deceives you? Bishop McAreavey attempts to deceive the people of Ireland with his lies. This paedophile-priest protector employed by the Vatican knows only too well that the number of child-raping priests, nuns, and de la salle Christian Brothers runs into many thousands in northern ireland alone. His own diocese of Dromore witnessed the rape of children by his unbiblical priests. Counties ANTRIM AND DOWN are the biggest child-raping and torture counties in Europe – a fact that the victims, the Catholic Church, the police and the Stormont Executive know only too well. They have blocked an independent public inquiry into these facts. RESIGN!

• Archbishop of Dublin attacks RTE bosses over Prime Time priest libel case. Church leader says Bishops would be asked to resign in similar circumstances. CASNI comment: The silence from this unbiblical false-face-of-rome Bishop D. Martin when it came to supporting the taoiseach’s exposure of the Vatican’s cover-up of child abuse of titanic proportions – see the 4 reports over the past 15 years – the revelations worldwide and the other media revelations, is typical of this wolf in sheep’s clothing.
• Northern Ireland Minister demands IRA apology from Republic. Claims Irish ‘funded and sheltered terrorists’ during Troubles. CASNI comment: The DUP’s Arlene Foster attacks the Taoiseach Enda Kenny over his call for an inquiry. Seems he hit a raw nerve here! Is this the same DUP who refuse to have an independent public inquiry into Northern Ireland’s torture and child-sex scandal; that once declared that it would never compromise its biblical principles???
• Catholic dioceses in Northern Ireland to release reports on child abuse. Safeguarding Board reviewing how abuse has been handled historically. CASNI comment: These reports come from the Vatican’s organization headed by Ian Elliot, who must have his work passed through its channels and approved before it can be made public! Reports into selected dioceses only and not the children’s homes or institutions where most of the rape and torture of the innocent went on. Only a Northern Ireland public inquiry will solve this issue.
• How the Catholic Church in Ireland can survive. We are a wounded church but not defeated. CASNI comment: IT CANT!!

• Pope appoints Irish American as Papal Nuncio to Ireland. Shock appointment from outside Vatican diplomatic corps. CASNI comment: The Vatican has appointed a papal prince as the Vatican’s representative to Ireland. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has stated “dublin says no” to the comic Charlie Brown.

• Catholic Church ‘Can Be Liable For Abuse’  – despite its denials of responsibility for the actions of her priests!
• Catholic church can be held responsible for wrongdoing by priests. CASNI comment: The Vatican tries to deceive the British judicial system in a London court. One of the many reasons the Irish prime minister Enda Kenny moved to oust the Vatican from destroying the island of Ireland.

• Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson to team up in sex abuse play

• SHOP A DIRTY PRIEST; CHURCH TO GIVE ABUSED KIDS A HOTLINE NUMBER

• Messages of support for Enda Kenny over speech on sexual abuse cover-up by Vatican

• Archbishop says people ‘misled’ on sex abuse
• Knock congregation urged to appeal embassy closure
• Courts rule that the Catholic Church is ‘liable’ for sexual abuse carried out by priests
  
• Bishop of Derry to step down

• Vatican attacks media on ‘Pope role’ in sex abuse cases

• Leading Irish priest criticizes Catholic hierarchy for ‘burying its head in the sand

• De Valera’s grandson challenges Vatican embassy closure

• Catholic Church leaders slam decision to close Ireland’s Vatican Embassy

• Irish embassy to Vatican closes in cost-cutting drive

• Donegal abuse victim vows to hunger strike if report not published

  CASNI comment: An example of exposure of the Catholic church’s child abuse in County Donegal. Recommended reading on the Catholic church’s abuse of children in County Donegal is a book written by a garda called “Breaking the silence”.

• The shocking indictment of Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City – Why did a bishop choose church over children?

• What Northern Ireland is REALLY offering child abuse survivors

  CASNI comment: All games come to an end – one side wins the other loses. Peter Corrigan outlines the detail of Stormont’s cover-up inquiry.

• Reflections on Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry. CASNI comment: The truth is in the detail! As we said almost two years ago, there will be no public inquiry into the child abuse scandal committed by the catholic church in Northern Ireland. This analysis by Peter Corrigan of Amnesty International makes it clear that there is absolutely nothing offered to the victims or their legal teams. This is a total cover-up agreed by Sinn Fein and the DUP.

• Kenny issues fresh warning to Vatican over co-operation on abuse allegations

  Irish PM has yet to hear from Holy See since damning criticism. CASNI comment: The game of truth and bluff is now on for the ‘unholy’ see and the Irish Primeminister. Will Enda Kenny bring the catholic church to open its vaults of child abusing religious orders?

• Ministers say abuse victims under ‘pressure’ from law firms

  CASNI comment: The Junior Ministers’ story of lawyers and groups making sexual abuse victims ill, is part of the continuing cover up of the child sex abuse and torture. These two ministers have been chosen to fool the people of Northern Ireland that they care and will help victims. The truth is that there will be no independent public inquiry , no compensation/redress, not a penny for victims or their lawyers, ever; and no convictions of the religious orders of the catholic church or the individuals that they employed.

• Irish government denies rift with Vatican over Cloyne Report

  Comments come as priests group prepares for historic AGM. CASNI comment: The Taoiseach Enda Kenny must continue with his attack and exposure of the most vile system in the world.

   

• GAA not informed about abuse accusations against priest in management CASNI comment: It is the GAA’s job to protect children, no-one else’s! If you can’t do the job then close the organisation down.

• Cardinal is ordered to court in pedophile sex abuse trial

• Presidential candidates dodge the bullets in first TV debate

  CASNI comment: DANA gets upset on when questioned about the Roman Catholic Church’s child sex abuse committed on millions of young children on the island of Ireland on the RTE’s “Late late show”.

• Assembly decision due on child abuse inquiry.

• NI abuse probe to start ‘as soon as possible’
  

• Ministers to decide on ‘full’ abuse inquiry

• Amnesty’s report finds Ireland’s clerical sexual abuse was ‘torture

  New report concludes there was a ‘fear’ of the Catholic Church. CASNI comment: The unbiblical church of rome is found guilty again! Will the Stormont Executive continue fudging the issue of its child sex abuse inquiry into the Roman Catholic run childrens homes and diocese’s where the Roman Catholic Church’s religious orders raped and tortured children. The Stormont Executive have lied to the people of Northern Ireland and the victims of abuse over the past two years on this.

• Amnesty International demands action as Ireland child protection standards found lacking.

  CASNI comment: Here is a directive for the Northern Ireland government to help it decide if they can continue to destroy the hopes of victims of Roman Catholic abuse in Northern Ireland, while they pursue their own ambitions and party interests. Where is the child sex abuse inquiry promised Sept 2011?

• Ireland’s peace process with a wayward papacy

  As the spat between Dublin and the Vatican peters out, a papal visit to Ireland could be back on the cards. Don’t bet against the faithful flocking to greet him, says Malachi O’Doherty. CASNI comment: Save us from such a visit! There are enough deceivers of mankind here already! Hypocrite and ‘child whisperer’ Cardinal Sean Brady, the Pontiff’s top man in Europe, and that weeping crocodile, Bishop Martin, are enough without bringing the manager of all their lies to our shores.

• Calls for Pope Benedict to be tried for ‘crimes against humanity’

  Victims and attorneys deliver complaint to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. CASNI comment: The pope, as head of the Vatican and Catholic Church world-wide, is being sued by a group from the USA for his church’s child sex-abuse system. Cardinal Sean Brady could share a cell with him!

• Archbishop defends enthusiasm and morale within Dublin clergy

  Dr Martin responds to criticism from Priests Council chair. CASNI comment: The fool Bishop Martin is at his pious antics again! He must be living on another planet.

• Irish priest says wives and mothers helped cover up sex abuse

  Says they ‘failed miserably to deal with the abuse of their children’. CASNI Comment: Another disgusting attempt by a Catholic priest to divert attention from the child-raping system he works for. He blames parents and families for the child sex-abuse his unbiblical false church has practiced since it began. Indeed, Fr. Paddy, you are vile.

• Cardinal Brady slams legislation plans on sex abuse confessions

  Cardinal Sean Brady has voiced vehement opposition to Irish government plans to criminalise priests who do not report sex abuse admitted in the confessional. CASNI comment: Cardinal Sean Brady has come out of hiding to defend the unbiblical child-abusing Vatican system and attack Enda Kenny and his government

• Vatican hits back at Irish Prime Minister over cover-up allegation

  Says accusation they interfered with child abuse cases ‘unfounded’. CASNI comment: The Vatican’s PR machine goes into overdrive in attacking the prime minister of the Irish Republic Enda Kenny, who is the first person in the island of Ireland and one of the few world wide to openly defy the pope and his roman empire.

• Dublin Archbishop says Vatican cabal protects clerical abusers in Cloyne

  Dr Martin believes abusers have friends at highest level of Church. CASNI comment: The cabal that Bishop Martin speaks of is the entire Roman Catholic Church system. The Irish people need not look elsewhere but directly at Bishop Martin for cover-up, misinformation etc. He is employed by and works solely for the Vatican.

• Irish leader hits back at Pope in wake of criticism from Rome

  Government calls sex abuse response ‘very technical and legalistic’. CASNI Comment: The Catholic Church retaliates against the Irish government now that the shock of the Primeminister’s direct and public exposure of the cover up of Ireland’s child abusers has sunk in. Enda Kenny must finish what he has started.

• Vatican: Taoiseach, Tanaiste criticisms ‘unfounded’. CASNI comment: Bishop Martin attempts to discredit the Irish Prime minister over his heroic exposure of the false church of Christ, unbiblical in all its teaching and its global child-abusing, money-making global mafia machine. This weeping wolf in sheep’s clothing is cunning, and as sick as Ireland’s papal leader Cardinal Sean Brady, another fox caught in the headlights they are both known by their works of darkness.
• Disgraceful cover-up by Vatican continues on Irish child abuse – Irish prime minister has absolutely nothing to apologize for. CASNI comment: The Irish Times sums up the Vatican’s response to the destruction of human life through its evil practices.

• War of words between Vatican and Irish government continues. CASNI comment: The Vatican’s harassment of the Irish government continues. Would Russia, China, North Korea tolerate such abuse by a man made religion? We think not! The real problem with Rome’s religious orders is that since they set foot in Ireland they have raped and tortured the children of this island.

• How 3-year-old boy was stolen from mother by Irish nuns and sold for adoption into U.S. CASNI comment: The cruelty of the Sisters of Nazareth, the main organisers of such child-care systems in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere, is well documented. Often they sent the children into facilities run by the de la salle Christian Brothers to be sexually abused and tortured.

• Attempted apologies for abuse damages the Irish Catholic Churches image further. CASNI comment: Denis O’Callaghan stoops lower than the sewer in an attempt to try and tell the Irish people he’s sorry. He will be – along with the Vatican and its unbiblical religion – if the Irish Prime minister carries though in the spirit of his recent verbal attack on Rome’s role in the abuse of irish children and the coverup of its crimes. Enda is a European hero for his defiant attack on the Pope, Vatican and its ungodly hypocrites. The reality is that every country in the world that does not take its stand against the Papal organization that rapes children in the name of religion and with diplomatic immunity, will not prosper.

• Catholic Church apologizes for ‘pain’ caused by ‘forced adoption’ in Australia. CASNI comment: The Roman Catholic Church is apoligising again! What for this time? No, NOT child sex or torture this time but for destroying thousands of families with its gestapo-like behavior of strapping down young women and stealing their babies. The Roman Catholic Church has done this to millions across the world.
  

• Priest launches astonishing attack on Bishop Magee over child abuse. CASNI comment: Bishop Magee, top aide to three popes, resurfaces to speak with victims of clerical abuse by the false religion he helps lead.

• Arrest Bishop John Magee for Cloyne cover-up. CASNI comment: Bishop Magee along with his friend Cardinal Sean Brady, are guilty of not reporting crime. They had direct involvement in the covering up these crimes. They should both be handcuffed and brought to book over child rape committed by their employees – or do priests not work for the Vatican?

• Catholics told to boycott Church collections to fund compensation claims. CASNI comment: The Roman Catholic people of Ireland and the world need to realise that the money they pay into the false church of Christ is spent on anything the Vatican decides. Compensation for clerical abuse victims,art, land, the stock exchange and anything else one can imagine is paid for by their hard earned money.

• Calls to probe Ulster’s child care home abuse. Why has Stormont not yet started an inquiry into child abuse in Northern Ireland? SAM McBRIDE reports. STORMONT is under pressure to set up two investigations into child sex abuse by Catholic priests – and possibly others – in Northern Ireland. Jim Wells, who is to take over as health minister in two years, warns that Northern Ireland has been “sleeping” about the level of abuse which has taken place north of the border.

CASNI comment: Stormont’s new incoming health minister, Jim Wells of the DUP calls for an inquiry into child abuse. He also states that if 10% of the child abuse is true in Northern Ireland then we have been sleeping!! Let the victims and survivors assure the DUP health minister that not 10% of what has been reported in Stormont is true, but 100%! Estimates of up to 100,000 people have been affected by it when the childrens homes and abuse in the dioceses is factored in. The abused victims in Northern Ireland can expect that the truth will come out; they will get justice and compensation from an independent inquiry, because surely the professing Bible-believing Christians in Stormont couldn’t contemplate NOT revealing such an evil in our midst! In September 2011 our First Minister and Deputy First Minister even agreed that this would be done.

• The Catholic Church protected Brother Robert Charles Best, but his victims finally brought him to justice.

CASNI comment: More evidence of the exposure of the Roman Catholic Church’s crimes of child sex abuse in Australia.

• Ireland Faces Down Vatican as Kenny Demands $1 Billion Abuse Compensation. 

CASNI comment: The Irish government’s hero primeminister, Enda Kenny stands firm against the boot boys of Rome – the Vatican’s black pope soldiers.

• Don’t let Christian Brothers stay quiet.

FOR the boys hunted by the sickening nest of paedophiles that ruled Ballarat’s St Alipius school, there was no escape. They were trapped in an evil maze of aroused, leering priests and brothers drooling with anticipation at the thought of having forced sex with confused youngsters so frightened they thought they would die.

CASNI comment: The paedophile church is exposed in  child rape and cover up ‘down under’, akin to our own de La SalleChristian Brothers – a notorious religious congregation within Rome’s multi-layered false religion and with all the humanity of Himler’s SS.

• Pope planning ‘radical’ changes to Irish Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict is said to be planning some “dramatic” changes for the Irish Church, according to the influential Irish Catholic newspaper columnist David Quinn and leading Irish theologian Father Vincent Twomey. Changes could include significantly reducing the number of dioceses and replacing most of the current bishops, reports the Irish Examiner. 

CASNI comment: As we stated a year ago, Cardinal Sean Brady WILL HAVE TO RESIGN. After all, he allowed Father Brendan Smyth to sleep in children’s homes run jointly by his church and state authorities. Smyth continued to rape children after Sean Brady silenced two children in 1975 who had been sexually abused. The Vatican is now going to help Ireland by reducing dioceses as they aren’t getting as much money into the plates to run their unbiblical teaching classes on a Sunday. Are they afraid that the devout may read the bible for themselves and find there are no catholic priests, nuns,or de la salle christian brothers in it?

• New report on Irish Catholic Church reveals further untold horrors.

A new report on the Donegal diocese of Raphoe will reveal that 20 pedophile priests sexually abused hundreds of children over a 40 years period. This report will detail another massive cover-up scandal within the Irish Catholic Church.

CASNI comment: The dam has now burst and the tsunami of revelations of victims and the truth of the Roman Catholic Church’s crimes against children continue to flow in the south of Ireland. Will Northern Ireland have to suffer the same fate for action to be taken? How long will it take for the government here to act out of a sense of moral duty and for conscience sake?

• Irish Catholic Church failing as numbers of priests at record low levels – POLL.

A leading County Derry priest predicts that in less than 15 years “at least a dozen parishes” in his diocese could have no parish priests. His calculations were made after examining the considerable reduction in the numbers of men entering the priesthood in recent years.

CASNI comment: Good news for the people who have long suffered at the hands of Roman Catholic priests!

• Abuse victims meet Belfast Mayor

• Sack the bishops who fail in their duty: Fr Brian D’Arcy

One of Ireland’s best-known priests has called for bishops who don’t make the protection of children a priority to be sacked. Read more… 

CASNI comment: Northern Ireland’s government is ultimately responsible for the vast child abuse which has occurred since 1920 in Roman Catholic Church children’s homes, training schools and diocese’s because it funded these services. It is a complete falsehood to say that all Bishops have co-operated with the Roman Catholic Church’s own child safe-guarding organisation headed by Ian Elliot – who almost resigned after being lied to by the Bishops in the past! Bishop John Magee is but one example which clearly proves that Ian Elliot’s work is fatally flawed since it relies on the truthfulness and co-operation of the Bishops who have been proved to care nothing for the abused Catholics of Ireland.

• Gardai set to investigate African abuse claims

A senior garda officer has been appointed to examine claims of clerical sexual abuse by Irish missionaries in Africa. A litany of allegations were detailed in RTE’s Prime Time Investigates programme against priests working in areas such as Kenya and South Africa. Read more…

 

• Shock as Catholic bishop who brokered multi-million dollar sex abuse settlement is found GUILTY of importing child porn.

A Roman Catholic bishop has been found guilty of importing child pornography in a case that has sent shockwaves through Canada and the Church. Bishop Raymond Lahey was stopped at Ottawa Airport after border guards found 588 images and dozens of videos of naked boys as young as eight on his computer and phone. Read more…

 

• Philadelphia cardinal orders investigation of 37 priests

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN) – The Catholic Church in Philadelphia will investigate as many as 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in “active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse,” Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, said Wednesday.

 

• Ireland’s Magdalene laundries scandal must be laid to rest

Church, family and state were all complicit in the abuse of thousands of women. The UN is right: Ireland must investigate. Read more…

• Priest who taught at St. Michael’s College School sentenced to 2 years for sex abuse

The Roman Catholic priest who sexually assaulted male students over a four-decade span as a high school teacher was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday. Read more including a victim impact statement

News reports from 2009

• Bishop linked to attempt to block Cloyne report
• Archbishops at centre of cover-up

Four Catholic archbishops of Dublin have been criticised for covering-up clerical child abuse in a damning report into how the crimes were handled by the Dublin diocese.

• Irish child abuse victim tells shocking rape story on live television

A former mayor has said the Irish government did not have “the foggiest” understanding of the pain felt by the victims of child abuse.

Michael O’Brien, 72, from Clonmel in Co Tipperary, said during RTÉ’s Questions and Answers that Ireland’s constitution should be changed to freeze the funds of the religious orders.

• This is “the work of the devil” – Letterkenny priest

A Donegal priest has described the abuse of children by members of the clergy as “the work of the Devil”. Speaking in his sermon to parishioners over the weekend, Letterkenny-based Fr. Joe O’Donnell described his shame at what some of his colleagues have done to children.

• Brave victims of the clerical abuse speak out CASNI comment: Dierdre O’Donoghue and her brother were victims of the Roman Catholic church’s religious order “The poor sisters of Nazareth” who ran Nazareth House formerly on Belfast’s Ravenhill Road; and the notorious paedophile order the De la Salle Christian Brothers, formely of Rubane House, De la Salle boys home, Kircubbin. The Department of Health – until the time of Rubane House closed circa 1988 – were never out of this 250 acre site. They held countless meetings with its head administrator called reviews; supplied a social worker to each child for monthly visits from the day the child came into any state care until the age of 18; supplied minute detail of each child’s background and family history. Most of whom were orphans shipped there by The Poor Sisters of Nazareth from the Nazareth Lodge orphanage. The head administrator used this vital information to sexually abuse children on an hourly basis. He was Br. Florence, aka Joseph Scally, Europe’s worst paedophile. Scally led a legion of paedophiles and brutal child torturers in Northern Ireland. This brute also ran St. Patrick’s training school on Belfast’s Glen Road, now run by the Department of Health.

News reports from 2007

• Bishop of Tenerife blames child abuse on the children.