priest exiled Irish paedo priest to be kicked out of Chile as citizenship is stripped and parole set to end

A PERVERT Irish priest who abused a young girl will have 72 hours to leave Chile once his supervised parole there ends in 2018. The South American country’s Supreme Court endorsed the expulsion of sicko John O’Reilly, 71.

It follows a decision by authorities to strip him of his Chilean citizenship, which he obtained after living there for 25 years

.https://www.thesun.ie/news/953619/irish-paedo-priest-to-be-kicked-out-of-chile-as-citizenship-is-stripped-and-parole-set-to-end/

Timetable for Phase 1 of Inquiry hearings

We have now added the timetable for Phase 1 of the Inquiry hearings to this website. It can be found in a new section called Hearings. The evidence to be heard will include:
Evidence from expert witnesses about: The legislative and regulatory framework governing children in care in Scotland up to 1968; The early development of care services in Scotland;  Societal attitudes towards children; and The nature and prevalence of child abuse in Scotland.

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/news/timetable-for-phase-1-of-inquiry-hearings/

Child abuse victims head to court following Assembly collapse

Victims of historical child abuse are being forced to take their fight for justice to the courts after being "abandoned" by Stormont's warring politicians.
In January a landmark report into state and church abuse recommended compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.  Dozens of victims had given evidence during a four-year public inquiry about the abuse they suffered as children in care.

http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/05/08/news/child-abuse-victims-head-to-court-following-assembly-collapse-1019955/ 

Deaf children raped and abused in Argentina’s “little house of God”

Details are emerging of long-standing sex abuse at a school for deaf children run by the Roman Catholic Church in the Argentinean city of Mendoza. The revelations come after the arrest on May 5 of a nun at the school, Kumiko Kosaka, on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at the Antonio Provolo Institute, authorities said. She was also charged with physically abusing the students to identify the most submissive ones.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/15/inenglish/1494846873_269569.html 

Zappone seeking international advice on Tuam site

Expert technical advice on the possible identification of children’s remains found near the former mother and babies home in Tuam, Co Galway will be sought, the Government has committed.

The “significant” remains were found during archaeological work conducted for the Commission on the Investigation of Mother and Baby Homes, and have been referred to the county coroner.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/zappone-seeking-international-advice-on-tuam-site-1.3085540 

Katherine Zappone seeks excavation of entire Tuam home site

Cabinet ministers will be told today to make a decision “quickly” on the potential excavation of the entire Tuam mother and baby home in order to identify the people buried at the site.Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone will issue the call as she outlines plans for a Government group to begin appointing technical experts to oversee the work.
Earlier this year, the Government confirmed the presence of the bones of hundreds of babies and children at a former septic tank on the grounds of the Tuam site.

 http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/katherine-zappone-seeks-excavation-of-entire-tuam-home-site-450203.html

Is Father Joseph Maskell Still Alive? 'The Keepers' Details The Allegations Against The Priest

Netflix's The Keepers is the kind of show that will stick with you long after you've finished watching. It recounts a case five decades in the making, beginning with the murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik in 1969, then broadening to the alleged sexual abuse that surrounded it. At the center of the docuseries is Father Joseph Maskell, the chaplain of Baltimore's Archbishop Keough — an all-girls Catholic high school where Cesnik had worked. And, as The Keepers digs deeper into Cesnik's story, viewers will undoubtedly be wondering if Father Joseph Maskell is still alive.

https://www.bustle.com/p/is-father-joseph-maskell-still-alive-the-keepers-details-the-allegations-against-the-priest-57924 

The Catholic Church has at most 10 years to adapt’

The Catholic Church, as well as everyone else, must understand that the world was hit by a cultural tsunami in the 20th century. We must humbly begin to pick up the pieces and put them back together again.

The 20th century was a crucible. The world which has emerged from this time-machine is changed, changed utterly. There is no going back; our only way is forward.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-catholic-church-has-at-most-10-years-to-adapt-1.3084834#.WSFDOjopa58.mailto 

Something urgent has to be done with the Tuam site - it can't just be left as it is'

SURVIVORS OF THE Tuam mother and baby home, and people linked to the Tuam remains, are to meet with members of the Dáil in June.
The meeting follows this week’s announcement that Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone is to seek expert advice from abroad on the possible exhumation and identification of the remains.

http://www.thejournal.ie/tuam-catherine-corless-interview-3397122-May2017/

Abused and told by the nuns that their culture was “evil”

In Canada, First Nations tribes were forced into a boarding school system run by Christian churches, in which abuse was rife. Here, three indigenous storytellers discuss how they are remaking their society 

Sometimes the story that you set out to tell is not the one that wants to be told. On a Friday morning in a house in Dublin, I sit down to speak with three indigenous storytellers from Canada. They are here for a conference called The Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years/Canada 150 at UCD, about Canadian history and identity.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/abused-and-told-by-the-nuns-that-their-culture-was-evil-1.3083477 

A Nun Murdered; Allegations Of Police Sex Abuse

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– There are shocking new allegations from a woman who told only WJZ she was sexually abused by a Baltimore County police officer and a priest when she was just 11 years old.
WJZ is protecting the identity of the woman who is being called Abby.
RELATED: Priest’s Body Exhumed As Part Of Decades Old Baltimore Nun Murder Investigation

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/05/16/wjz-exclusive-a-nun-murdered-allegations-of-police-sex-abuse/ 

Complete outrage': Protest against Sisters of Charity owning maternity hospital happening today

A PROTEST MARCH against the Sisters of Charity owning the new national maternity hospital will take place in Dublin city today. Demonstrators will gather at the Garden of Remembrance at 2pm before making their way to Leinster House. 
Today’s march has been organised by a number of groups including the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Parents for Choice in Pregnancy and Stillbirth, Justice for Magdalenes Research and Uplift.

http://www.thejournal.ie/maternity-hospital-protest-2-3375572-May2017/?utm_source=shortlink 

National Maternity Hospital needs to be owned by the State'

Up to 1,500 people have protested in Dublin over the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital. The 'We Own Our Hospitals' march was organised by Parents for Choice, together with Uplift, the National Women's Council, and Justice for Magdalenes.
Orla O'Connor, the Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland, said their message is clear. She said: "The Government need to resolve this, we need to have the new National Maternity Hospital, but it needs to be owned by the State."

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/latest-national-maternity-hospital-needs-to-be-owned-by-the-state-788579.html 

Over 1,500 protest against Sisters of Charity owning maternity hospital

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE took to the streets to protest against the Sisters of Charity owning the new national maternity hospital. Over 1,500 people marched from the Garden of Remembrance to Merrion Square to hand over a petition against the move. Campaign organisation

Uplift presented a viral petition printed on 50 feet sheets of card to the gathered crowd. Siobhan O’Donoghue, Director of Uplift said: “We are sending a huge people powered message today to Simon Harris that he has only one real choice regarding ownership of the National Maternity Hospital – it must be kept in public ownership”. 

http://www.thejournal.ie/sisters-of-charity-protest-dublin-3377489-May2017/ 

Huge petition on 50 metres of paper as hundreds protest ownership

AROUND 1,500 people marched in Dublin city centre today against the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital being given to the religious order the Sisters of Charity.
 The protesters gathered at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Street before marching to Government buildings. The petition with 103,607 signatures asking Minister Simon Harris to keep the new National Maternity Hospital in public ownership

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/national-maternity-hospital-controversy-huge-petition-on-50-metres-of-paper-as-hundreds-protest-ownership-35689153.html 

Nun arrested in child abuse case

A Roman Catholic nun from Japan has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities in Argentina, authorities said. Kosaka Kumiko was also charged with physically abusing the students at the Antonio Provolo Institute for children with hearing impairment in northwestern Mendoza province.

http://tempo.com.ph/2017/05/06/nun-arrested-in-child-abuse-case/ 

Please don’t publish my story

I was happy editing the latest story I had for publication……..I received an email where the person concerned tells me NOT to publish her story. This has been happening quite a long time. Why are victims afraid to have their story published?
This is common for all victims of criminal activity. We consider the fact that a priest who abuses his position of authority and trust, on the same level as that of a policeman who forces his victims to commit any illegal act under coercion.

https://maltesemarriedcatholicpriest.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/please-dont-publish-my-story/

300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption:

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals.
The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049647/BBC-documentary-exposes-50-year-scandal-baby-trafficking-Catholic-church-Spain.html 

There is a long history of intermingling of church and State funds with respect to St Vincent's'

DELVING INTO THE history of St Vincent’s Hospital provides an interesting viewpoint from which to analyse current agreements relating to the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital to the Elm Park site.
Of particular interest are the terms of the original agreement to fund the construction of St Vincent’s Hospital and its amendment in the period 1965-1972. In 1954, the State agreed to provide £1.35 million to fund the construction of a new St. Vincent’s hospital.

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/there-is-a-long-history-of-intermingling-of-church-and-state-funds-with-respect-to-st-vincents-3370728-May2017/

Angel from hell: Nun is arrested for helping five priests 'sexually abuse' dozens of deaf children.

and she is smiling as if she has done no wrong... you know what they did to us children when we smiled?... they would say to us,,, I will give you something to take that smile off your face... and down would come their fist across your face... even though you heard them tell you... you could not more... for fear of getting the hidden of your life... Ann Free Spirit it is just not right... that most things the you see or hear... takes you back to your childhood abuse... Ann.

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A Roman Catholic nun from Japan has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities in Argentina.

Kosaka Kumiko, 42, was charged with helping the priests with anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and oral sex, which were allegedly committed in the bathrooms, dormitories, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city about 620 miles northwest of Buenos Aires.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4480530/Nun-arrested-helping-priests-rape-deaf-kids.html 

Get your rosaries off our ovaries':

Get your rosaries off our ovaries': Protesters gather at the Dail to oppose National Maternity Hospital.  A small group gathered outside the Dail this afternoon to oppose the decision to allow ownership of the €300m taxpayer-funded National Maternity Hospital to be given to The Religious Sisters of Charity.

People Before Profit TD Brid Smith curated the protest, which saw speeches given by a spokesperson from AIMS Ireland (Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services in Ireland), a former resident in the Magdelene Laundries, a spokesperson from the Coalition of the Repeal the 8th Amendment, and People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd-Barrett. 

http://www.hotpress.com/Get-your-rosaries-off-our-ovaries-Protesters-gather-at-the-Dail-to-oppose-National-Maternity-Hospital/20019488.html 

Government may ask Sisters of Charity to gift land to State

Harris given month to find solution to controversy over ownership of maternity hospital.   The Government may ask the Sisters of Charity to gift their land to the State in a bid to defuse the row over the location of the National Maternity Hospital.

Minister for Health Simon Harris briefed the Cabinet on the issue and the controversy surrounding the ownership of the hospital, which is to be built on the grounds of St Vincent’s Hospital.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-may-ask-sisters-of-charity-to-gift-land-to-state-1.3069286 

LATEST: Minster says people need to understand what is really going on with National Maternity Hospital

:The Government chief whip says some of the comments surrounding the new national maternity hospital are very "misleading". Regina Doherty has been disputing claims that the Sisters of Charity will own the building on their grounds.
She's admitted she wouldn't be "at peace" with the situation but doesn't think it will ever happen.  Minister Doherty says people need time to understand what is going on. "Some of the narrative around it is actually very misleading. We're not giving anything to anybody. The campus, the new company will have a lean against the investment of the State.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/taoiseach-promises-complete-clinical-independence-for-new-national-maternity-hospital-787991.html 

Succession rules safeguard Catholic ethos of church’s health service assets

Hospitals will be transferred to other charitable bodies with a Catholic ethos in the event that the congregations decide to wind up the companies. In light of public controversy over the proposed movement of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to the St Vincent’s campus, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he would like to see a debate about the possible divestment of health service assets held by religious congregations.

Hospital and disability services used by hundreds of thousands of Irish people every year, paid for by the State and by private health insurance, are owned by religious congregations motivated by their Catholic faith.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/succession-rules-safeguard-catholic-ethos-of-church-s-health-service-assets-1.3067871 

A slain nun and a priest’s body exhumed - this cold case is Netflix’s latest mystery

The body of a Catholic priest from Baltimore, whose sexual assaults on teenage girls in the 1960s and 1970s caused the Archdiocese of Baltimore to pay out a dozen settlements last year, has been exhumed by Baltimore County police still trying to solve the 1969 slaying of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, police said Thursday.

Cesnik's death has long been one of Baltimore's most puzzling homicides, and is the focus of a new documentary series, "The Keepers," to be released on Netflix on May 19. The longtime suspect in her death is the Rev. A. Joseph Maskell, who was the chaplain at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore and also a chaplain for the police in both Baltimore city and county. He was removed from priestly duties in 1992 when allegations of sexual abuse against him were first made to the church, he fled the country in 1994, and was never charged with a crime before his death in 2001. 

http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/7289327-a-slain-nun-and-a-priest-s-body-exhumed-this-cold-case-is-netflix-s-latest-mystery/ 

Cardinal keeps excommunication threat hanging over abortion TDs

The Catholic Church has left the threat of excommunication hanging over the heads of Catholic members of the Dail who vote for the abortion legislation in its current format.

Cardinal Sean Brady yesterday refused to be drawn on the consequences for either Catholic ministers who introduce the legislation or those TDs who vote for it as it stands.
 

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cardinal-keeps-excommunication-threat-hanging-over-abortion-tds-29242992.html 

Philomena says hospital row is 'crazy'

Philomena Lee has spoken of her disbelief at the Order of the Sisters of Charity involvement with the new National Maternity Hospital.

Ms Lee - who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film 'Philomena' - told the Irish Independent that she believed the order's nuns were "digging their heels in" to hold onto ownership of the hospital.

 

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/philomena-says-hospital-row-is-crazy-35679033.html 

Argentina: Nun arrested for allegedly abusing deaf children

A Roman Catholic nun from Japan has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities in Argentina, authorities said.

Kosaka Kumiko was also charged with physically abusing the students at the Antonio Provolo Institute for children with hearing impairment in northwestern Mendoza province.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentina-nun-arrested-allegedly-abusing-deaf-children-47237855 

Cork City Councillor speaks about her experiences in a mother and baby home

THE revelation that the Sisters of Charity will be given ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital has sparked outrage across the country.

City councillor and Ballyphehane native Marion O'Sullivan, who attended St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home in Dublin back in the '70s, fought to be able to keep her baby after a taking a stand against those in authority.

http://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/Cork-City-Councillor-speaks-about-her-experiences-in-a-mother-and-baby-home-37a62cfe-be69-44c5-b9d8-3f238e10868b-ds 

It's like they wanted to punish us' - Woman (59) devastated after adoption agency connects her with the wrong family

A woman said she was left "heartbroken" after discovering her adoption agency had connected her with the wrong family following a life-long search for her birth mother.

Geraldine McCarthy (59) connected with the immediate family of the woman the Irish adoption agency believed was her natural mother, only for DNA tests to prove they weren't related.

 

http://www.independent.ie/life/family/family-features/its-like-they-wanted-to-punish-us-woman-59-devastated-after-adoption-agency-connects-her-with-the-wrong-family-35683195.html 

VICTORIA WHITE: Modern habit of blaming nuns is completely counter to the facts

They were evil and they got found out... and us babies were treated and told so many times by the nuns... that we were the devil's children... and worst still being thrashed within an inch of our lives every day and night... they would not let us forget... that we had the sins of our mother's on our souls... as well as our own... and they thrashed us to get them out... we were innocent of the crimes... which we were beaten up for... and we paid dearly for being born out of wedlock... us babies and children had no one we could go to for help... it was like we were criminals... and we had done no wrong... we were the nuns and priest prisoners... and they did what they liked with us...  Ann

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http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/victoria-white/modern-habit-of-blaming-nuns-is-completely-counter-to-the-facts-449261.html 

Convent Horror Stories

In 1846 in the city of Pittsburgh, a handful of the Sisters of Mercy announced that they were going to open a hospital, the first in the city, to care for the poor. A local newspaper, the Presbyterian Advocate, greeted the announcement by telling its readers that it believed the Sisters of Mercy were engaged in prostitution.
Religious orders of sisters have been a traditional target of the seamier side of Catholic urban legends—those falsifications of history that have become part of the cultural DNA of America. The animus against nuns persists today. It can be seen in such diverse places as the theater production Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and in unremitting attacks on Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta by the likes of comedians Penn and Teller and iconoclastic author Christopher Hitchens.

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/convent-horror-stories

‘It felt more like living in a prison than a children’s home’

Frances Reilly has written a compelling memoir detailing her treatment at the hands of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in Belfast. Jane Hardy reports.
It is rare that you meet somebody that you know is a truly brave person. But Frances Reilly, a middle aged woman in a smart black leather jacket, whom I met in a corner of Jury’s Inn, Belfast, is extremely courageous. Not only has the Omagh-born woman written a memoir Suffer the Little Children, detailing her abusive convent upbringing, she has also pursued her tormentors in court, a process which took nearly 10 years, and achieved a successful outcome.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/it-felt-more-like-living-in-a-prison-than-a-childrens-home-28470133.html 

WHY NO NATIONAL MOVEMENT REGARDING NUN ABUSES???

Nun Abuse: My Story Maybe if I step forward and tell my story others will come forward and nun abuse will start to get the kind of national attention that priest abuse has.  All the recent media attention given to the priest abuse issue has brought back a flood of repressed horrible memories like flashbacks from a movie.
I was sent to the same strict catholic academy (Mt. Gallitzen in Baden, PA) that my father ran away from home so he wouldn't have to go there. Why my dad put me in a place he feared to attend I will never know or forgive him for.

http://snapsurvivorsnetwork.yuku.com/topic/3175/WHY-NO-NATIONAL-MOVEMENT-REGARDING-NUN-ABUSES#.WQq1XqIlGUk 

Discovery of mass child graves in Ireland exposes Church's history of abuse

The discovery of mass child graves in Tuam, Ireland last month has reportedly exposed the Catholic Church's long history of abuse targeting unmarried mothers who marred society's conservative image.
Amateur historian Catherine Corless' discovery of the 796 children who died in the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 stemmed from her childhood memories of some of the skinny kids from the same Catholic establishment, a number of whom attended the same school she did but were distant from the others. She told Reuters that she was struck that none of those dead children had records in local cemeteries, so she spent many years trying to find out what happened to the kids born out of wedlock who lived in those places.

http://www.christiandaily.com/article/discovery-of-mass-child-graves-in-ireland-exposes-churchs-history-of-abuse/60198.htm 

WAGES AND PENSIONS FREE HEALTH OVER DUE TO CHILDREN AND WOMEN

We want the Religious to pay the proper wages for the work Children had to do in these Institutions when we were supposed to be in their Care.
Manufacturing Farming and all Services operated by the Religious Orders were done without wages being paid, and pensions, yet the Clergy looked after themselves and their own welfare who paid the wages and pensions to themselves, who have great benefits in retirement homes and great care.

https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/wages-and-pensions-over-due?source=facebook-share-button&time=1491476759 

Fintan O’Toole: Church control of hospitals maintains myth of charity

In 1990, my second son was born in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. Of the women in the ward with my wife, one was 42 and had just had her seventh child. She was desperate to be sterilised. Another woman was younger – somewhere in her mid-30s – and obviously poor.
She had just given birth to her fifth child. She, too, did not want any more children. She wanted, as she put it, “to have my tubes burnt”. The curtains were drawn around her bed but everyone in the ward could hear the conversation with the doctor to whom she put this request.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-church-control-of-hospitals-maintains-myth-of-charity-1.3059489 

Abuse survivors group will rally at Central Catholic

LAWRENCE -- An international group that supports sexual abuse survivors plans to rally in front of Central Catholic High School next week after an administrator was accused of drugging and raping a student in 2006.
Andrew Nikonchuk, 36, of Lowell was fired Tuesday for violating "the school's policies pertaining to appropriate social boundaries between students and faculty."

http://www.eagletribune.com/news/abuse-survivors-group-will-rally-at-central-catholic/article_7d4e0406-2c47-11e7-8223-8b22466db78e.html 

'There is no place for any religious organisation in 21st century care' - Irish midwives

A representative for Irish midwives said they want relocation but they do not want any religious order to have a say in modern hospitals.

Ally Murphy, of the Irish Midwives Association told Breakfast Newstalk that they want what is best for Irish women. She was speaking as the controversy over the decision to give ownership of the new €300m National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity rumbled on.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/there-is-no-place-for-any-religious-organisation-in-21st-century-care-irish-midwives-35655260.html 

No country for young women: Honour crimes and infanticide in Ireland

When I was in first year in secondary school in 1997, a girl in the year above me was pregnant. She was 14. The only people who I ever heard say anything negative about her were a group of older girls who wore their tiny feet “pro-life” pins on their uniforms with pride. They slagged her behind her back, and said she would be a bad mother. They positioned themselves as the morally superior ones who cared for the baby, but not the unmarried mother. They are the remnants of an Ireland, a quasi-clerical fascist state, that we’d like to believe is in the past, but still lingers on.

https://feministire.com/2014/06/03/no-country-for-young-women-honour-crimes-and-infanticide-in-ireland/ 

Block Sisters of Charity as 'sole owners' of National Maternity Hospital

Sign and share this petition to prevent the Sisters of Charity becoming 'sole owners' of the hospital. Show the state we will not allow the abuse of our babies, children, and women to be swept under the rug. Demand a formal apology from Sisters of Charity and demand they pay their share of the redress scheme.

https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/block-sisters-of-chairty-as-sole-owners-of-national-maternity-hospital?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1492539365