...that is, that the Catholic Church in Ireland conducted its own investigations into allegations of child sex abuse rather than reporting each allegation to the gardai, and that Cardinal Sean Brady, when working as a notary on an enquiry into accusations against Father Brendan Smyth, obediently went along with that system-- which he now describes as "an unhelpful culture of deference and silence."
I feel I should blog about something like this, just to prove that I am not ignoring it, but the truth is that news stories like this one barely interest me at all. A lot of the time I don't even read them. They simply demonstrate (again) two things that I knew already-- the first is that the media, whether through bias or mere sensationalism (or both), love to stick the boot into the Catholic Church, and the other is that both the Church and wider society didn't treat the phenomenon of child sex abuse with the gravity it deserves until very recent times.
BBC malice
ReplyDeleteAnja Gadgil, in her promoting antisemitic bloodlibel (as if IDF just "wants to" or "happy to", etc.), quoted (on July 4, 2023) the UN in terming the butchers as "children," ... The very infamous UNRWA who shares responsibility in Arab Jihadi crimes on their own people and on Israelis.
A day after that vile anti-Semitic slur/idea, Jeremy Bowen "avenging" BBC was in overdrive presenting the gunmen as heroes. From his reporting which was a mishmash of chronology and Shahid propaganda, you might get confused from the rambling that the 18 years old Arabs are "refugees" since 1948 - straight... The title on the (July 5, 2023) BBC screen of Bowen's clip showed: "funeral for...victims" - no less. Fact: not one of the 13 eliminated was innocent or not connected to terror against Israelis.
As "good mouthpiece for terror" he announced out loud, this is a powerful powerful message.. (so he claimed) "we are not beaten". He propagated. That despite the fact that the coward gunmen came out of hiding holes...
Thanks for that comment, Anonymous.
DeleteI don't know a whole lot about the Israel situation so I am cautious to wade in. I read Martin Gilbert's history Israel up to the foundation of the State recently...but even I can see the clear anti-Israel bias in the BBC and other media. It's even worse in Ireland.