*this image is of a care setting, in North America, where State and Church operated residential institutional systems. The problem is a global problem, a cultural problem.
It's a business model. This is not of the Faith. It is political. Power.
Reality check.
That pattern must be broken.
Survivors unmet needs.
Survivors need open accountability, due sanction in timely fashion. For so many, these are unmet needs. So many children, so many adults, so many children, for generations. it is so painful and so sad. This is no small thing we are faced with.
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We would do well to find out what needs are as yet unmet.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/irish-archbishop-criticizes-pathetic-responses-clergy-abuse
Mark Vincent Healy, who was abused by two priests from 1969 to 1973 during his time at another Spiritan school, St Mary's College in Dublin, has called for an independent inquiry to determine the scale of abuse in schools run by the religious congregation.
Healy, who was the first Irish male survivor of abuse to meet Pope Francis in 2014, recounted how one of his abusers was stationed at Blackrock College for a time as well as at Rockwell College in County Tipperary. The same abuser also is accused of abuse in Sierra Leone, where he was stationed following allegations by five families in 1973.
"I have no doubt there are considerably more cases," Healy said.
Mark Vincent Healy is urging the Irish Government and all interested parties to establish a Survivors Panel to work as equal partners in any Public Inquiry, providing essential information, data and insight to be taken into account at every stage of this process.
It is the nature of the intersectional real world. Complex matters require honest discourse and access to accurate data and are made more complicated than they need to be because of power struggles or the 'interest of Power' as an influence that distorts the discourse. We cannot allow a pattern to emerge where the process degenerates into a power struggle between Survivors and the Institutions. That cannot happen.
As we face the polluting of our shared environment, we face this sordid history of the pollution of our children as part of that great work to cease the pollution, end the harm. This is what makes us truly human.
Which Taoiseach will drive forwards a public inquiry that does the same?
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