Letters

Irish child abuse

Arnold Jago

Contents - Sep 2011 - Buy a copy now 2011 Fighting Fund launched - Peter Westmore Pope appoints Archbishop Chaput to troubled Philadelphia - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success - Br Barry Coldrey Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis - Michael Gilchrist Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia - Babette Francis Abortion grief: mother love, mercy love and God's compassion - Anne R. Lastman Sacred Art: Catholic church statuary: a craft in danger - Christopher Akehurst Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years - Zenit News Agency Letters: Teaching authority - Fr M. Durham Letters: Irish child abuse - Arnold Jago Letters: Where is Jesus? - Michael Apthorp Letters: Book of Genesis - Frank Mobbs Letters: Catholic schools - Maria Plustwik Events: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for busy people Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism - Fr Glen Tattersall (reviewer) Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: The Life of St Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan - Br Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Donations: Please Support the Fighting Fund! Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Proper church etiquette: a public witness of faith - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

The Premier of Ireland, Enda Kenny, condemns the Catholic Church about bishops failing to turn over to the police priests accused of child abuse: "The rape and torture of children were downplayed or 'managed', to uphold instead the primacy of the Institution, its power, standing and reputation."

If Premier Kenny looks around his parliament, he knows there are MP child-abusers, child-porn-watchers and other no-goods. Our whole society needs to change. But it's easier to attack the Church.

The betrayal of trust committed by unfaithful priests is an evil without equal. Obviously.

The rest of us, however, while lamenting priestly sin, shouldn't devote too much time to it - but concentrate on checking our own selves. Mostly our minds are far from pure.

Pray to God for the gift of personal purity.

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 24 No 8 (September 2011), p. 13