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News Updates Please visit our new extensive Survey Poll Evil priest shielded by Catholic Church The denial came despite an earlier letter written to the girls' parents by Cardinal George Pell, apologising for the priest's crimes and acknowledging the findings by the church's investigator that the cleric had raped both the children. The revelations are contained in a new book by Chrissie Foster, a mother whose daughters were abused by Oakleigh priest Father Kevin O'Donnell in the 1980s and 1990s. We need to know if we were used as guinea pigs I can still smell iodine and surgical spirit as if it was under my nose as I write these words IN recent weeks, new investigations carried out by the Irish Independent have raised the question of whether or not children placed in industrial schools were subjected to vaccine trials by multinational drug companies. This issue has been put to one side since the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, under the chairmanship of Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, was prohibited from including it in its original terms of reference. Following a successful court hearing taken by doctors named as having taken part in the experimental vaccination, the issue was allowed to fade into the background. I was ‘sentenced to be detained’ in St Michael’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Cappoquin, Co Waterford, in 1955, following the deaths of both my parents within a five-week period of each other. My memories of St Michael’s are vivid. Lansing Diocese: $225K paid to man who claimed
abuse by priest The settlement was signed July 27 by the man and on Aug. 11 by Bishop Earl Boyea, leader of the 10-county diocese. It was paid on Aug. 17 by a diocesan insurance policy. The agreement is the second incident made public this week regarding alleged abuse decades ago by priests who have since died. On Monday, Boyea said he believes the Rev. John Martin, a priest
at St. Isidore in Laingsburg from 1941 to 1966, abused at least a
half-dozen boys in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Martin died in
1968. Lansing diocese identifies late priest accused of abusing boys Boyea said he first learned about the allegations against Martin, who pastored St. Isidore in Laingsburg from 1941-1966, in June. Two men told stories about the abuse to the current pastor of St. Isidore, who relayed the information to Boyea. When Boyea learned about the initial accusations, he asked that notices be placed in the parish bulletins of St. Isidore and St. Mary Parish in Morrice (1938-1941) asking anyone with information about Martin to come forward. The traumatized brain has different cognitive capacities. It is not so much that one trauma compromises the brain; rather, it is an accumulated lack of love that does it. And lack of love means not fulfilling needs. When we consider that the right emotional/limbic brain is in a growth spurt in the first years when touch and love are absolutely crucial, it is clear that a lack of it will have lifelong consequences on our emotions. This is particularly true as the right brain relates to, and informs, the left intellectual side. Toward the end of the second year of life there is a leap in growth on the left side of the brain. Alleged abuse victims sue Oakland Diocese By failing to isolate Stephen Kiesle from the public, the diocese allowed the onetime priest to victimize more children, the plaintiffs' attorneys said at a news conference on the steps of the Cathedral of Christ the Light in downtown Oakland. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/BASB1EVRCP.DTL#ixzz0x4T3LDbB 40 Years in Psychoanalysis “To this day, I’m not sure that I am in possession of
substantially greater self-knowledge than someone who has never been
inside a therapist’s office. What I do know, aside from the
fact that the unconscious plays strange tricks and that the past stalks
the present in ways we can’t begin to imagine, is a certain
language, a certain style of thinking that, in its capacity for reframing
your life story, becomes — how should I put this? — addictive.
Projection. Repression. Acting out. Defenses. Secondary compensation.
Transference. Even in these quick-fix, medicated times, when people
are more likely to look to Wellbutrin and life coaches than to the
mystique-surrounded, intangible promise of psychoanalysis, these words
speak to me with all the charged power of poetry, scattering light
into opaque depths, interpreting that which lies beneath awareness.
Whether they do so rightly or wrongly is almost beside the point." |
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