Dichiarazione sul Rapporto Murphy riguardo agli abusi clericali su minori nell’Arcidiocesi di Dublino
Per coloro le cui menti non sono chiuse, questo rapporto è la prova definitiva del totale fallimento di un sistema di gestione ecclesiastica che ha causato un grave danno a migliaia di bambini cattolici in tutto il mondo. Ad oggi la risposta al report da parte dei vescovi irlandesi, e dalla santa sede, ci dice che troppe menti sono ancora serrate. Nessun vescovo ha ancora ammesso ciò che tutti noi vediamo chiaramente: il loro sistema di governo della chiesa incomprensibile e aristocratico ha ferito i nostri figli e ha oltraggiato la comunità di fede cattolica in tutto il mondo. Sulla scia dei report di Ferns nel 2005 e di Cloyne nel 2008 – e altre rivelazioni simili scaturite in oltre venti paesi – questo report devastante sull’Arcidiocesi di Dublino può portare ad una sola conclusione. Il potere assoluto e incontrollato che i vescovi cattolici hanno acquisito, non da Dio, ma dalla storia, tende inesorabilmente verso
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Sean O’Conaill
Acting Coordinator
2 Greenhill Road
Coleraine
N. Ireland
BT51 3JEPhone NI 703 44686(From Irish Republic: 048 703 44686)
Mobile NI 075 90823416
seanmoc@btinternet.com
News Release from: Voice of the Faithful –
Statement on Murphy Report on Clerical Child Abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
For those whose minds are not closed this report is conclusive proof of the complete failure of a system of church governance that has caused intense trauma to thousands of Catholic children throughout the world. So far the response to the report by Irish Bishops, and by the Holy See, tells us that too many minds are still closed. No bishop has yet admitted what all of us can plainly see: their unaccountable and aristocratic system of governing the church has failed our children and disgraced the Catholic community of faith throughout the world.In the wake of reports on Ferns in 2005, and on Cloyne in 2008 – and a tide of similar revelations in over twenty other countries – this devastating report on the Archdiocese of Dublin can lead to only one conclusion. The absolute and unchecked administrative power that Catholic bishops have acquired not from God but from history tends inexorably towards their corruption. For the sake of all other Irish victims of clerical abuse, known and unknown, this revelation now demands an inquiry into the remaining twenty-three Irish dioceses.This dangerous and absurd church system must in the meantime be changed. It has failed our children and the people of God on many levels, and is not fit for purpose. It cannot be redeemed by outstanding individual bishops because, in the words of Archbishop Diarmuid
At present, the only forces that push a Catholic bishop to behave accountably are the secular media and the secular state. This is the reason that for over two decades Catholics all over the world have been shocked by a succession of appalling scandals that have held us all up to global contempt. To deny that change is now necessary in the way the church governs itself is to condemn other children of the church to the same trauma, and to condemn the rest of the church to endless derision and scandal. Catholicism cannot survive this. To argue that God supports the present church system is to argue that God approves of child abuse – and that is blasphemy.We protest especially at the total absence of an internal forum within the church that would allow lay people to ask their own questions and express their own views on this appalling failure of church leadership. This too is clerical abuse of power. It has led to the continuing isolation of the victims of clerical sexual abuse, and to a culture of denial and demoralisation among the rest of the faithful. It has denied to the Holy Spirit the freedom to inform the church through the wisdom of lay men and women – especially the wisdom acquired through suffering. It has also allowed too many bishops to live in a cocoon of absurd self-delusion, cut off from all reality by a culture of servile deference that belongs to the Middle Ages.If the church is to recover, our bishops must leave this cocoon and engage directly with their people. The age of deference is dead. We Catholic Irish have finally discovered in 2009, at a terrible cost, that deference is the deadly enemy of childhood, of truth and of love. It is therefore the deadliest enemy of the church also.
In a separate open letter we call upon Pope Benedict XVI to explain to us and to the universal church why so many bishops throughout the
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Sean O’Conaill
Acting Coordinator
2 Greenhill Road
Coleraine
N. Ireland
BT51 3JEPhone NI 703 44686(From Irish Republic: 048 703 44686)
Mobile NI 075 90823416
seanmoc@btinternet.com
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