Of Child abuse issues

sorella

Of the Child Abuse issues
I was making a rare visit to boards to try to rehome a dog and dropped in here.

This is a flying visit; we just are so fully occupied picking up the pieces now; an honour to do it, but one we wish were not needed.

So whatever is said hereafter here, will not be seen now.

I keep a weblog up also

http://www.xanga.com/anchoressnun

As a non-Irish autocephalous Order of Nuns, with a presence in Ireland, we are deeply shocked. To tears.

Part of my own work over the last while has been to research these issues; and now we are receiving so many emails and calls and seeing so many, who are are deeply shocked as we are....

For a review of the issues, see
http://www.clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/

from within the Irish RC Church.

And for the global view, see..
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/
swamis, rabbis, clerics from every church.

What has happened here is beyond dreadful.

Some we speak to say how they had a wonderful education from the Christian Brothers ( known in Australia as the Christian Buggers) and that they did great things for Ireland. As one of the articles on clerical whispers describes so well, all the time they were running these excellent day schools, the underbelly of corruption was going on simultaneously.

Hidden from view. Filthy and depraved. While the money and praise rolled in.
( and, by the way, an order is responsible for its members; and in these cases, the orders knew fine well what had gone on and was going on. And it is not in the past. A priest n Dublin was made to stand down two weeks ago and today one in Cloyne)

Such was the evil.

And there are no excuses; it was deliberate, chosen, planned. By many but not all Orders.

None of this has anything to do with Jesus of course.

Which is why just now we are not attending mass; we say our own. There is no way to trust anyone here just now.

There is no sense of 'obligation" to priests and bishops who are not keeping their own vows; as they are not.

Rules have no meaning unless based in truth and integrity.

Nor has any of this anything to do with Christianity.

It does nto mean that Catholicism or Anglicanism ( and the Church of Ireland institutions have much to answer for also) is bad or wrong.

Or that Christianity is other than it is.
A real, strong living Source of all that is good and pure and holy.

But that many make evil choices.

Their choice; their loss; our pain.

Ask google for Canadian holocaust; there all the main churches conspired to cary out genocide, murdering many thousands of First Nation and Inuit children.

We work there among survivors and victims.

Those actions had nothing to do with Jesus either.

Yes, the nest here needs to be cleaned out once for all; and many are saying this now.

We need a pure Church.

Because Jesus is pure.

God is doing this; in ten years,such is the death rate now among Irish priests and brothers and sisters, there will be none left; I have the statistics on file. And He is not renewing orders or the priesthood.

Not in Ireland certainly. We are bursting at the seams however,

IF the Lord Jesus Christ is the centre of your faith and life, then it matters not where you hang your hat.

IF He is not? Then nothing matters anyways.

It is so very simple; we need to bring Jesus and His love back into every life and every Church.

Theology is man-made and irrelevant. The way Jesus asks us to live iswhat matters.

Because rules are inflicted from outside and not from the knowledge of the Living Lord Jesus in every heart, corruption can easily enter.

This is what has gone wrong; there is an empty legalism in the Church. Some of the threads here are so empty of Jesus. Full of legalism.

There are no excuses for what has been done here; the apologies are vain and empty words now.

But so many still love their Church; and they have a need for it, and for people who know Jesus and who pray with them, as we do now.

And that is fine too. We have that freedom.

Whose faith is not in an institution or a set or rules, not in intellectual vanity, not in dogma or doctrine, but in Jesus. Who is Lord.

He said, "Peace I give you, My peace I leave you.. Not as the world give I to you."

Wishing you peace and blessings this night and always; remembering and knowing that Jesus alone is in control

Not man. Or anything evil.

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