The Catholic Church: don't be taken in

Do not believe people with a privilege to maintain when they say things have changed. Ironically this post was prompted by a news item today & will take the form of some reblogs, one about the treatment of a Catholic priest who whistle blew about his own treatment, which is the item which prompted this post, as illustrating the Catholic Church's *current* approach. The other follows on from a previous post about the defunct Fort Augustus Abbey school. I am delighted that targets of abuse (you won't catch me using the word victim) are suing the religious Congregation that ran the Abbey. That is a profound magical act in the domain of Pentacles: these people have to feel the pain before they'll stop inflicting it on others.

SCOTLAND

Scotland on Sunday

by MARTYN McLAUGHLIN

Published on the 08 September 2013

A PRIEST who has campaigned for the Catholic Church's hierarchy to act against a fellow priest he claims abused him has been dismissed from his diocese and issued with a formal warning for speaking to the press, it has been claimed.

Father Patrick Lawson, who has described the church as a 'big mafia' which is seeking to 'destroy him,' is understood to have been issued a decree of removal by Bishop John Cunningham last week.

Fr Lawson claims that as a seminarian, he was abused in 1996 by Father Paul Moore, a parish priest, at St Quivox Church in Prestwick. He has also said that the church has failed to deal appropriately with his complaint over the intervening 17 years.

The allegations strike yet another blow to the church's credibility as it seeks to move on from the scandal surrounding Cardinal Keith O'Brien and decades of abuse in the Catholic boarding school, Fort Augustus Abbey.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:04 PM

Alleged victims of abuse to sue school

SCOTLAND

Herald Scotland

Monday 9 September 2013

VICTIMS of alleged physical and sexual abuse by monks at a former Catholic boarding school are to launch a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of pounds compensation.

The six who attended Fort Augustus Abbey school, in the Highlands, have instructed an English law firm to sue the Benedictine Order, which ran the institution. David Greenwood, a solicitor for Switalskis, said the firm would be seeking between 30,000 to 100,000 per person depending on the abuse and how it had affected their life and ability to secure employment.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:32 AM

Former pupils take Church to court over school abuse

SCOTLAND

The Times

A legal case involving hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation against the Roman Catholic Church is to be launched by victims of physical and sexual abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands.

Six former pupils have instructed Switalskis, an English law firm, to sue the Benedictine Order which ran the school until it closed in 1993.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:28 AM

(Source: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/)

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