Victoria White, writing in today’s Irish Examiner under the
headline: Tarring all catholic religious with sex brush is a horrible
injustice’ tells us about clerical sex abuse as if she was talking to an non-
educated audience. In her article she states that the Catholic Church has done
more than any other institution to halt child abuse in it’s ranks. She states
this at a time that the Association of Catholic priests want access to Mass and
indeed children again for those who were convicted of ‘Past mistakes’ and where
everyone knows that the Parish priest to the local Garda and all the way to the
Vatican helped cover up the crimes of the same clerics. Like the Police, it is
when a force or institution that firmly backs the crime rather than the
prosecution of the criminal within their ranks, is when law and order is dead
in the water.
To prove her un-biasness Victoria tells us she is not a
Catholic yet she writes later : “….but
tarring all our Catholic religious with sex brush does a horrible injustice to
a group of fellow citizens, people who are our aunts and uncles, our sisters
and brothers. Worse still, it provides a smokescreen behind which shocking
abuse of children continues.” This is where Victoria sets herself adrift
somewhere in the middle of nowhere and she may yet be found.
She then tells us about all the other obese children, babies
in under staffed nurseries and so on confusing herself with the correlation of
sex abuse and them, and this is after telling us how the Catholic Church
founded hospitals, schools for the poor, mental health services, and all for no
pay apparently, except for bed an board, without explaining where did all the money then go. All
of her research, she tells us proudly, was done over many weeks yet she forgot
to mention the Magdalene laundries, and the Industrial and reformatory schools
for boys and girls, that imprisoned over 175,000 children in the history of
this clerical republic and beyond that they ran as well. All of them together
was designed only for profit from opportunity that stemmed from a craven, brain
washed government by a religious sect that new better as only they saw it. It
turns out they were right.
Of course I am not Catholic either except branded as one
without choice as a child. In fact, had I not been branded as one, I would not
have been allowed to be in one of those Industrial institutions for over 10
years under the complete control of mindless and brutal clerics. Religion had
nothing to do with this lot except the license to brutalize. My study of all of
this was up close and personal and without choice and lasted a lot longer then
‘many weeks.’
There is no one out there that is reasoned believes that the
Catholic Church is of itself complete corrupt, but like the Gardai, if the rank
and file are brought screaming to the altar of accountability and ultimately
justice, then we have to stop that self righteous mindset that makes both
tribes believe that they are right and above the law.
By Barry Clifford
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