Posted by Christopher Mc on Sunday, June 28, 2009
Under: Church
I think the game is up for Archbishop Martin's attempts to turn the religious orders into a bad church for toxic abuse. It only works if people don't realise it is happening. But this morning on Joe Duffy's TV programme on RTE1 the cat came out of the bag. Joe began with a bland "the bishops have come out of this controversy well", his tongue firmly in his cheek. Fr Tony Flannery paused but a moment before laying in to their attempts at scape-goating religious orders. I thought he would stop at the general but he selected "one bishop in particular". Joe looked "really?" before the Redemptorist followed up with "the Archbishop of Dublin".
I suspect many orders are looking forward to the release of the Dublin report. Presumably the Archbishop will take the walk of shame into Government Buildings with the archdiocesan assets register so that anyone who was ever slapped at school will be able to submit their claim.
We'd a teacher who used to beat us with a fan belt doubled and wrapped with blue insulating tape while another used an elephant's tail. Perhaps we can sue the government of Kenya who supplied the tail.
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Catholic, Carmelite, Husband, Father, Reader of all sorts of books, Writer of occasional letters, Viewer of lots of TV and movies, Lover of tea, Hater of coffee. Anything I write is my own opionion and is not intended to represent the views of any organisation with which I have a connection. You can email me at "blog at live.ie" (replace the "at" with @). Don't be shy. To comment, click on the title of post. You have to include a name and email but fake ones work fine. Make sure there's an @ in the email.
