Eamonn Casey sexual predator

volchitsa · 01-12-2024 11:44AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122884951#Comment_122884951

Helping a criminal escape justice is being complicit.

As for preventing further abuse, I’m dubious. Fr Sean Brady, as he then was*, who was charged to deal with one of the very worst of the clerical abusers, seems to have been VERY lax in preventing Fr Brendan Smyth from harming other children.

So even if one or two were kept away from children forever after (and I notice you haven’t named any) I think any reasonable person would conclude that the church’s efforts were more about saving the public image of the church than about preventing harm to children.

To the extent that those aims overlapped, then sure, they did their best. But saving children was almost incidental to their real aim.

* Later Cardinal Brady, so his lack of care didn’t harm his career. Which at the very least creates the appearance that nobody else cared either - or even that that is exactly what he was meant to do: cover it all up with a veneer of “dealing with it”.

Hotblack Desiato · 01-12-2024 10:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122908323#Comment_122908323

They are in ultimate control of schools. Each RC-ethos school has the bishop's handpicked representative, a priest, on the BOM. Principals are only appointed after the bishop gives his say-so.

Hotblack Desiato · 01-12-2024 10:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122908329#Comment_122908329

This is nonsense I'm afraid.

In areas like Dublin 6, where the schools were seen as desirable, parents snubbed their local school to send their kids to the "desirable" school. Fair enough, if there was a place after local kids were accommodated, but that wasn't always the case.

Kids from non-Catholic families in areas like Dublin 6 found themselves at the bottom of the admissions policy, kids from RC families from outside the area were able to get priority over them. That was not right and in some cases left those kids with no school place in their area at all.

Ultimately every child gets a school place. But some were forced to travel outside their area solely due to not being Roman Catholics.