Laurence Soper again

You didn't think I'd forgotten about him, did you? This post is partly a vehicle for the more recent picture I failed to post before. I'm glad to say the curse of the witch community - in fact I feel like all sensible people are working on him, since the two previous posts about him on here have gained a *lot* of hits.

What is happening with him: 3 of Cups reversed. I normally don't do reversals, but I'm using Lo Scarabeo's Book of Thoth Etteilla tarot, & it's difficult not to. Etteilla's keyword is 'expedition d'affaires': things are speeding up, which to my mind could go either way. Where is he hiding: Judgement reversed. Either way up Etteilla's keyword is the same: 'le jugement'. He will be revealed by the person hiding him.

My affirmation: 'Andrew Soper is brought to justice so that no harm can come to children'.

Of course this does not address what abuse does to the targets. What I do keep hearing is purely being believed finally is the most therapeutic thing that could happen. It will leave you screwed up for life, but at least finally the reality is acknowledged. This is like the importance of naming the problem in witchcraft.

Some of the effects are spelled out in the rest of this post, which is a 'reblog' of info from a Catholic website (http://www.alivepublishing.co.uk/faith-today-articles/suffer-the-little-children-searching-for-laurence-soper):

Working in this area is challenging in so many ways, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It is always the victims of this terrible crime that one's heart goes out to. The stories of the St Benedict's abuse survivors are poignantly similar to those of poorer victims from the other side of the tracks. These Old Priorians do not recall privilege but pain, including breakdowns, being sectioned, becoming anti-social and violent. One recalled a classmate becoming a prostitute, another committing suicide.

Families too were fractured by the abuse: some parents could not believe that any priest would behave so, others near destroyed by their inability to protect their beloved child.

A former pupil told me he was haunted by other children's cries. 'Some of us used to gather outside the studies of Fr Pearce (now serving a prison sentence) making noise to signal our presence, when classmates he had targeted for "extra tuition" were summoned there. Back then, of course, we had only the most rudimentary vocabulary for what we knew or suspected was going on.'

Soper today has put himself outside both the law and the church through disappearing. Police have obtained a European Arrest Warrant, and Ealing Abbey has confirmed that: 'Laurence Soper has been dismissed from the monastery. He is no longer a monk or a member of the community. By virtue of this, he is canonically suspended from priestly ministry.'

The Vatican ordered an inquiry following the Lord Carlile's independent report on the scandal, this listed five allegations on five occasions against Soper, the first Apostolic Visitation in Britain in living memory. Its findings will not be made public. But Soper was also an ordained priest and may now be laicised. The abbey has confirmed: 'His case has been passed to the Congregation for Religious in Rome and the matter is now in their hands.'

So where is Soper now? Police suspect that he may still be in Italy. But that is a guess. Publicising the facts can only help.

Andrew Charles Kingsdon Soper was born in Hendon, Middlesex, on September 17 1943, to Alan Kingsdon Soper and Anne, maiden name Morris. His Penzance-born father married his mother in Cardiff in 1936. He was a distant cousin of the socialist and Methodist peer Lord Donald Soper, but apparently never met him. He was his parents' only child.

He is around 5.7, pale, with 'grey or blue eyes', and slim built. He needs spectacles or contact lenses, and is grey-haired. A former pupil recalls a distinctive' "high-pitched voice", another a "nasal" voice, and "slightly posh received pronunciation accent". He attended St Benedict's as a boy, and many suspect that he is in a remote, contemplative monastery abroad, sheltered by monks who are misguided or do not know his real background.

Soper briefly worked for Barclays Bank before entering the monastery in 1964. He taught at St Benedict's from 1973-83, and became bursar between 1975-1991. He was elected Ruling Abbot from 1991-2000, but quit Britain in 2001 for Rome.

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