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carl on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Moot:  But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who…
hippocamper on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Your headline is misleading, confusing, mean, and not really funny.
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carl on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: [360] driver8 [L]awful authority may order the church in any way consonant with Scripture and enforce uniformity Has Sydney been accused of acting unlawfully, or…
Fisherman on Stephen Hawkins: God Was Not Needed To Create The Universe: Hawking:  “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing”. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is…
cennydd13 on Newsflash: The Episcopal Church sues local congregation: The truth of the matter, MichaelA, is that Jerry Lamb knows what we say about him, but he thinks that Mrs Schori is insulating him…
Ralph on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Any comment that I might make about Katherine Ragsdale might well be taken as mocking the mentally ill.
Moot on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Hi Carl, I knew you weren’t reacting to my post, just something you had typed and had a second thought or three prior to hitting…
driver8 on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: Only Scripture binds the conscience. Including obeying the lawful authority? The Anglican view (as against the anabaptists) is firstly that the lawful authority may order…
Matt Kennedy on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Oh and I am certainly not mocking the dead but the living.
Matt Kennedy on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Wait, hold on…you mean to tell me he’s not an Episcopal clergyman? Wow! I mean I could have sworn since his views so closely resemble…
Don+ on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: [7] above should read “better keep up with…”
Don+ on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: No doubt these fast-paced students will be able to better up with the rapidly changing truth and radical new concepts of salvation.
carl on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: [5] Moot I didn’t mean to imply anything about your post.  I was simply reacting to what I initially thought to write.  I agree with…
carl on [Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Anglicanism Upside Down Down Under? Understanding Lay Administration: [358] MichaelA Why do you want the Anglican church to abandon the doctrinal understanding of Thomas Cranmer, and of continental reformers with whom Cranmer corresponded,…
MichaelA on Newsflash: The Episcopal Church sues local congregation: In the long run, ACNA wins, since TEC is spending money that it cannot replace (because it does not have enough income from active parishioners…
GrandpaDino on [Entirely Off Topic] What's Wrong With This Shiny New Video on Public Education?: “Every textbook a child will carry thoughout their education” Obviously not a textbook on proper grammar.
NoVA Scout on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: Document that I didn’t know something?  Not easy.  But my comment was based on Matt’s post.  This hostage taker guy was a candidate to be…
paradoxymoron on Newsflash: The Episcopal Church sues local congregation: You must be new to this site.  Yes, that’s what that means.
Ralph on The sad demise of a potential candidate for Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School: #2, carl, I agree. I further think it seems wrong to mock the mentally ill. I have no idea “where” he is right now.

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[RC] Child abuse: a victim’s reaction

Saturday, November 28, 2009 • 4:29 pm

From The Guardian:

In the 1960s, from the age of two, Patrick Walsh and his brothers were locked away at the notorious Artane industrial school in north Dublin.

While there he suffered severe physical abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers, the Catholic order charged with running the schools across Ireland.

He suffered more torment after one of his brothers escaped from Artane, and was regularly subjected to savage beatings and other physical punishments.

He is now a businessman living in Camden, north London

Comments:

Prayers for healing for all those abused and prayers for true and just handling of these cases, may light be shown where Satan has operated in the dark and those who done the devils bidding be exposed and dealt with in a just fashion.

[1] Posted by Hosea6:6 on 11-29-2009 at 10:03 PM • top

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