Spiritan abuse survivors urged to come forward as independent process to begin

Its a really disturbing story, I just cant get over how many paedos were in there. Like 78 of them is unbelievable, it was child abuse on an industrail scale.

And it also begs the question as you say as to who knew what and when and why they didnt come forward. There had to have been members of the order who knew well what was going on but turned a blind eye.

According to this there are 414,336 priests in the world.

People were reported but the schools did nothing. For example when a relation of mine heard that a 'friend' of his was going to be given a coaching job in a school, he wrote to the school. Putting in writing who he was, how he know person and why he through a job around children was not suitable. He heard nothing back from the school. Years later the 'firends' antics in the school made headline news.

Spiritans, Jesuits, Vincentians - all have been exposed in the numerous cases of abuse that have taken place in their many schools in only the last two years. How many other religious run schools have the same legacy yet to come to light?

I think it’s a the point now where we need to begin discussing a total separation of religious orders and influence from our schools.

All a gag to you, eh? Stay classy.

So every single last one of them wrestled with their conscience and lost?

All of these religious order schools go on about "values", well it's pretty feckin' obvious by now what those values really are

The perverts who stayed in the orders were set up with room and board for life, plus the most expensive defence barristers money could buy.

Vomit inducing.

I disagree - the imperative for priests to be celibate clearly warps their minds. It’s too common amongst them to be coincidence

Hahah you think priests are getting laid more than the laity?

I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous. That being said if it were true it would just go to show further how full of **** they are.

I remember spitting out a drink all over the floor when the scene on Fr Ted with Brendan Grace saying to the priest that was watch the boys sports day "and you're imagining what they look like without their clothes on"

I think it was the first time such a comment was made and there was no national uproar about it - because we all knew it was true for so many of those in religious orders.

That the current scandal has taken until 2022 to get into the open is almost as equal of a scandal than the scandal itself.

I think there needs to be a totally independent body that those who suffered abuse by any group that held power over young people and that this group can take statement anonymously if wanted and also keep personal details secret at the request of the person making an allegation and that some form of counselling is then made available for them to avail of.

In this day of Zoom, such counselling and reporting would be far more accessible than in the past

Yeah absolutely awful, what a horrible person she is.

Imagine being so incredibly embittered and self absorbed that you use a child sexual abuse case to get some “last laugh” digs in over the fact that children from the same school as other children that teased you 30 years ago were being raped.

I’m not surprised to see this from her though. Acts the big moral superior to everyone but is clearly a very nasty and spiteful person herself.

Irish Times really has fallen into the gutter

It's not ordination as a priest that turns someone into a paedophile.

Confiscate the land and turn it into refugee/asylum seeker housing, with a dollop of social housing. I'm sure it's in a nice location with convenient access to shops, jobs, etc. Never mind letting the criminal enterprise known as the RCC promise to pay some huge amount of money (operative word: promise, they rarely deliver). And do it fast. Kick out whatever fossilized child rapists that might be there - either they were practitioners themselves, or complicit. Enough mollycoddling this depraved organization.

Great. A few million spent on whatever to prove, slowly, that the RCC is guilty as hell and has no intentions of doing anything about it. Tormenting the victims again. I noted the announcement from Martin was that the investigation should result in solutions for the past victims. For once, Ireland should worry about past and future victims. There'll be another set of paedophiles found out, it's like clockwork in this country. Make priest paedophilia a crime, with severe sentences and limited appeal. Fines to be paid in cash or forfeiture of real-estate in kind. Things like that.

Wailing over the poor victims is nice, but doesn't solve the problem.