When does it end?
The Mirror reported 31 July, “Church child protection chief caught with 4,000 child porn pictures“. With slight edits, the report opens with: A child protection official for the Catholic Church has...
View ArticleWhere are all the outraged catholics?
Another day in Australia, and another shocking child abuse revelation. Yesterday The Age published the article which stated: A GROUP of 15 religious brothers led by an “alpha paedophile” is suspected...
View ArticleCalling a spade
The polite version of the saying is “calling a spade a shovel” – usually to describe someone who speaks the blunt facts. Or as a boss once told me when describing a more senior manager, “he calls a...
View ArticleWhat price, chastity?
Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy. It’s one of the most well-known facts of how the catholic priesthood works. Yet: one in 15 Melbourne priests is a child abuser [and] Catholic priests offend at...
View ArticleThe Beast
When we think of bullies in schools, we usually think of the students – less so of the teachers. I was certainly bullied in primary school at least. Admittedly in at least one case I gave back as good...
View ArticleWhy didn’t they say something?
I recently posted about a teacher at my primary school who was a bully and for all intents and purposes, a child abuser. Not sexual, but physical. She’d become uncontrollably angry and shake children...
View ArticlePell’s Trucking Company
So, George Pell appeared via teleconference to the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse in Australia today, and had the audacity to compare the catholic church to a trucking company,...
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