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- Child Abuse Royal Commission Case Study 25 (Or: A Few Thoughts About Redress) March 20, 2015
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- Bilgrimage Article on a US Inquiry into Child Abuse November 4, 2014
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The Seal of the Confessional (Or: Hear No Evil, Report No Evil)
Mandatory reporting of child abuse revealed during the confessional process within the Catholic and Anglican Churches will be high on the agenda at the royal commission for many. There will be a real bun fight over this with supporters of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican Church, Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Auxillary Bishop of Dublin, “Coll. conciliorum”, Canon 21 of the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Bishops, Catholic Church, Forgotten Australians, Frank Brennan, Geoffrey Robinson, Hefele-Leclercq “Historie des Conciles” at the year 1215; Mansi or Harduin, Irish Association of Catholic Priests, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, priests, Raymond Field, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, seal of the confessional, Sean McDonagh, St Charles Borromeo of Milan, Terry O’Gorman, Tony Abbott, Waleed Aly, Youth Off The Streets
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Teaching Priests (Or: The Little Children Suffer )
While there have not been that many state teachers caught, there have been a hell of a lot of clerical teachers, giving the lie to the church claims that they do not offend any more than the general public. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide, Alan Edward Swingler, Albert Matthew Taylor, Assumption College (Kilmore, Blackfriars Priory School (Prospect, Brian Dennis Cairns, Brian Robert Gordon, Brisbane Boys' Grammar School, Brisbane), Broken Rites, Brother Greg Coffin, Catholic Education, Chanel College (Gladstone, Chevalier College (Bowral, David Austin Christian, De La Salle Brothers, De La Salle College (Orange, Downlands College (Queensland), Edward Mamo, Edwin Rapson, Forgotten Australians, Francis (Mick) Reis, Frank Terrence Keating, Geoffrey Sydney Veness, Gerard Gladwin, Gerard Joseph McNamara, Gregory Joseph Sutton, Hugh Michael McNamara, John Desmond Dyson, John William Chute, Kevin Francis Phillips, Kevin John Lynch, La Salle College (Revesby, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, Marist Brothers (Pagewood, Marist Brothers College (Ashgrove, Marist Brothers College (Eastwood, Marist College (Canberra), Melbourne, Monivae College, Newman College (Perth), NSW), paedophiles, Patrician Brothers, Peter John Toomey, Peter Paul Van Ruth, Peter Richard Spratt, Phillip John Hardy, priests, Queensland), Raymond Sidney Foster, Redden College (Melbourne), Ronald William Hopkins, Ross Francis Murrin, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salesian College, Salesians of Don Bosco, St Augustine's College (Cairns, St Bernadette's (St Mary's, St Brendan's College (Yeppoon), St Joseph's Christian Brothers' College (Geelong, St Joseph's College (Hunters Hill, St Mark's College (Port Pirie), St Paul's School (Bald Hills, St Stanislaus College (Bathurst, Sydney), Thomas William Grealy, Trinity College (Goulburn), Trinity Regional College (Brunswick, Victoria)
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The Psychologists (Or: I Really, Really, Really, Really … Really Care)
Psychologists have played a central role in the response of all churches to their problem of damaged abuse victims. Paying for counseling, at first, was a good public relations tactic generally accepted by the public as evidence of a caring … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, Anglican Church, Archbishop of Melbourne, Carelink, Catholic Church, David Gould, Dr Michael Crowley, Encompass Australia, Forgotten Australians, Gerardine Taylor, John Harrower, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Peter O'Callaghan, priests, psychologists, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, secondary abuse, Susan Sharkey, Tasmanian Psychologists Association, Tonia Kohl, Tony Robinson, University of Tasmania, Vitality Psych, Wesley Hospital (Sydney)
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We’re Not as Bad as Others (Or: Lies, Damn Lies and Rubbery Figures)
Source: http://www.sodahead.com/living/catholic-bishop-children-want-to-be-sexually-abused/question-2411199/?page=5&postId=76205069#post_76205069&link=ibaf&q=&esrc=s High school statistics students are usually warned of some of the ways that statistics can be misused. One of these ways is to falsely label axes. For example, a famous case was an advertisement during a US presidential … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Donohue, Catholic Church, Catholic League (US), ephebophiles, Forgotten Australians, hebephiles, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, priests, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, statistical manipulation, statistics, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Why Catholicism Matters
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