https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/archbishop-dublin-diarmuid-martin-reveals-14246536
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/archbishop-dublin-diarmuid-martin-reveals-14246536
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin reveals paedophile priests cannot identify new victims because they abused so many
He said some serial offenders could not recall the names of all their victims which in some instances numbered more than 100. The Archbishop of Dublin has told of his shock at finding serial paedophile priests are unable to conclusively identify new cases – because they had so many victims.
Dr Diarmuid Martin said some serial offenders could not recall the names of all their victims which in some instances numbered more than 100. He makes the disturbing revelation in an RTE documentary detailing how the Vatican came to exert control over almost every aspect of Irish life since the foundation of the state.
Former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell looks at how the Catholic Church wielded so much power over the State for more than a century. Dr Martin talks frankly about the scale of abuse expressing his deep concern that paedophile priests can often be unsure if they abused a victim or not when a new case comes to light. He said: “Any organisation has to ask how is it that at a particular time there was large number of serial paedophiles. “I’m talking serious paedophiles, we’re talking about hundreds.
“There are cases coming forward and my people will ask, for example, a priest, if a new case comes up, from one of these historical cases, does this name mean anything to you? “Sometimes they say, ‘Yes, I abused that person’.
“Sometimes, and this is the more worrying one, they (say) ‘the name means nothing, but I can’t say, it could have happened...
“They don’t even, they didn’t even know how many people they abused.”
Amnesty International chief Colm O’Gorman said he came back to Ireland in 1995 “to report the fact that I’d been raped by a Roman Catholic priest from the age of 14 until 17”. He added: “Fr Sean Fortune was the priest [who abused me]. When I came back I initially believed that I was reporting what one very bad man had done to me. “But within I think about six weeks another five men had come forward and made complaints.”
Fortune was accused of the rape and sexual abuse of 29 boys. He committed suicide before any of the cases came to trial. Michael McDowell reveals how the State effectively let the church off the hook when it came to paying compensation to victims. He blasted then Minister Michael Woods’ decision to meet representatives of religious orders and do a deal to cap their liability to victims without any consultation. He said: “I was the attorney general at the time and neither I or members of the government in cabinet were consulted on this matter.
“The state effectively signed a blank cheque that cost us €1.4 billion in the end in exchange for a promise of a contribution of 128 million pounds from the religious orders.” Despite two decades of horrific scandals, cover-ups and revelations the documentary concludes that church remains embedded in Irish life.
Rome V Republic is on RTE One Thursday April 11 at 10.15pm
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/archbishop-dublin-diarmuid-martin-reveals-14246536
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin reveals paedophile priests cannot identify new victims because they abused so many
He said some serial offenders could not recall the names of all their victims which in some instances numbered more than 100. The Archbishop of Dublin has told of his shock at finding serial paedophile priests are unable to conclusively identify new cases – because they had so many victims.
Dr Diarmuid Martin said some serial offenders could not recall the names of all their victims which in some instances numbered more than 100. He makes the disturbing revelation in an RTE documentary detailing how the Vatican came to exert control over almost every aspect of Irish life since the foundation of the state.
Former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell looks at how the Catholic Church wielded so much power over the State for more than a century. Dr Martin talks frankly about the scale of abuse expressing his deep concern that paedophile priests can often be unsure if they abused a victim or not when a new case comes to light. He said: “Any organisation has to ask how is it that at a particular time there was large number of serial paedophiles. “I’m talking serious paedophiles, we’re talking about hundreds.
“There are cases coming forward and my people will ask, for example, a priest, if a new case comes up, from one of these historical cases, does this name mean anything to you? “Sometimes they say, ‘Yes, I abused that person’.
“Sometimes, and this is the more worrying one, they (say) ‘the name means nothing, but I can’t say, it could have happened...
“They don’t even, they didn’t even know how many people they abused.”
Amnesty International chief Colm O’Gorman said he came back to Ireland in 1995 “to report the fact that I’d been raped by a Roman Catholic priest from the age of 14 until 17”. He added: “Fr Sean Fortune was the priest [who abused me]. When I came back I initially believed that I was reporting what one very bad man had done to me. “But within I think about six weeks another five men had come forward and made complaints.”
Fortune was accused of the rape and sexual abuse of 29 boys. He committed suicide before any of the cases came to trial. Michael McDowell reveals how the State effectively let the church off the hook when it came to paying compensation to victims. He blasted then Minister Michael Woods’ decision to meet representatives of religious orders and do a deal to cap their liability to victims without any consultation. He said: “I was the attorney general at the time and neither I or members of the government in cabinet were consulted on this matter.
“The state effectively signed a blank cheque that cost us €1.4 billion in the end in exchange for a promise of a contribution of 128 million pounds from the religious orders.” Despite two decades of horrific scandals, cover-ups and revelations the documentary concludes that church remains embedded in Irish life.
Rome V Republic is on RTE One Thursday April 11 at 10.15pm
The Darker Side
In today’s Irish Times, the 13th. March 2019, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of the-
“darker and sadder side of Church life in a culture of careerism and nastiness”
and he continues-
“working at the Vatican is an unusual experience”
This of course begs the question, what does Archbishop Martin mean by “darker and sadder side of Church life in a culture of careerism and nastiness” Does he mean for example, the Vatican; or much closer to home in Dublin, Ireland; or that the Roman Catholic Church has dark secrets? This is very intriguing coming from an Irish Archbishop with his own dark secrets.
Dr. Martin should enlighten us on this darker aspect. Perhaps it was the recent cardinals, bishops and priests convicted of raping millions of children world-wide? Or was it the 60,000 secret files Dr. Martin gave as Archbishop of Dublin to the Irish police? Their Investigators were given access to 60,000 previously secret Catholic Church files which in part incriminated four Archbishops of Dublin of deliberately suppressing evidence of "widespread" rape of children by it's clerics.
Also the Irish Government went on to say that the Irish clergy were able to rape thousands of vulnerable children in Ireland because of a "systemic, calculated perversion of power" that put their rapists and pedophiles above Irish Law.
This damning verdict on the conduct of the Irish Catholic Church and secular authorities followed a three-year investigation into allegations of the rape of thousands of children by Irish Catholic priests in Dublin and Ireland going back to the 1960s. Is this the darker side of Irish Church life that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of?
Irish Clerical pedophiles who operated with impunity under the cloak of the priesthood are the true serpents that can and did wreck innocent children’s lives -feeding and with the direct help of the body of the Roman Catholic Church.
A QUESTION OF NUMBERS
The implicit and real crime of the 60,000 secret files is that the evidence was kept inside a secret vault in the Archbishop's own Dublin residence -even as pedophile clerics were moved between parishes to prevent the facts being made public.
What did Archbishop Martin know about the secret files? After all the 60,000 secret files where in his vault, in his residence in Dublin. He should release the files immediately to the public. The Irish people have a right to them; a right to know who and what clerics raped their children.
A key question about the 60,000 secret files is this: given this huge number of files, are these the secret files of all the Clergy in Ireland? If one thinks about it for a moment- there are not that number of Clergy in the whole of Ireland. There were about in 1960s, 16,000 nuns in Ireland and some 14,000 male priests and brothers, including all the male Religious Orders in Ireland.
This number is correct and begs the question of whether the whole barrel of apples are rotten. Because if we add these numbers up, the total is 30,000 Clerics. Yet there are 60,000 secret files in Archbishop Martin’s vault in Dublin.
We are not talking about "a few bad apples here," it would appear the whole barrel is rotten. Call it what you like, whether it's said of bad apples or rotten ones, or of bushels, barrels, baskets or bins, the lot is rotten. A well known metaphor applies-“A fish rots from the head down." Starting with the Pope, it means that the Catholic Church leadership is the root cause of the organisations failures and demise.
THE CAESARS OF ROME
If the Roman Catholic Church is broken, what now? If the Vatican fails to establish and protect a healthy culture, some unhealthy culture will fill that vacuum, and it appears it did. But I say that the leadership of the culture itself, The Vatican is unhealthy. There begins the rot, and soon the fish is lost. It’s time to seriously talk about the closing of the Vatican and abolish the Roman Catholic Church for the good of humanity.
There is a corrupt realm in Rome which pits innocent children against pedophile priests- Good versus pure Evil. The Vatican is a place where sin and unrighteous virtue are celebrated and collide. This is not the supernatural world, this is a real world in which i grew up: the religious-run Institution in Ireland. I’m still faced off in various legal battles against The Dark Side, the force that is The Catholic Church, The Cult.
Hunting the great Whore of Babylon, which was and is Rome. Rome in the form of the Catholic Church is still a power. According to history, when the power of Imperial Rome waned, her Bishops (the Popes) became the new Caesars. That is why the Pope walks around like the King of the world and lives in a palace, the Vatican, and sits on a gold throne.
Instead of having their own standing army, the Popes have used the armies of other nations to do their bidding and to fight their wars. Through the centuries, the Popes have continued to take the styles and names of the Caesars. The Pope is still called "Pontifex Maximus" which means, "High Priest" just as were the Caesars.
Is this what our Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of…What did he, Archbishop Martin really see? did he see the true filth in all of Roman’s glory at the Vatican ? or did the 60,000 secret files he held in his own vault and knew about and doesn’t speak about shake his chosen faith with idiosyncratic beliefs? But sadly the delusional Archbishop choose his own fate, he took the side of pure evil, because he became one of the rotten apples at the head of the rotten fish.
Come, I will show you the face of truth, of the one that calls himself Peter, corruptible forever. Surrounded by 214 flesh eating, blood sucking Cardinal Vultures sitting in judgement, and speaking from their distorted mouths of these false prophets, is Hate, Intolerance and Death, filling the pure air we breathe with their raucous grunts, and barks. And No, the Pope, Pope Francis, does not occupy St. Peter’s chair, he really occupies Caesar's chair, serving up the rancid fish, head and all, camouflaging the foul stench with lashings of rotten apple sauce. Owen Felix O’Neill
60,000 secret files Story Link-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/6663517/Irelands-Roman-Catholic-archbishops-covered-up-abuse-to-protect-churchs-reputation.html
In today’s Irish Times, the 13th. March 2019, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of the-
“darker and sadder side of Church life in a culture of careerism and nastiness”
and he continues-
“working at the Vatican is an unusual experience”
This of course begs the question, what does Archbishop Martin mean by “darker and sadder side of Church life in a culture of careerism and nastiness” Does he mean for example, the Vatican; or much closer to home in Dublin, Ireland; or that the Roman Catholic Church has dark secrets? This is very intriguing coming from an Irish Archbishop with his own dark secrets.
Dr. Martin should enlighten us on this darker aspect. Perhaps it was the recent cardinals, bishops and priests convicted of raping millions of children world-wide? Or was it the 60,000 secret files Dr. Martin gave as Archbishop of Dublin to the Irish police? Their Investigators were given access to 60,000 previously secret Catholic Church files which in part incriminated four Archbishops of Dublin of deliberately suppressing evidence of "widespread" rape of children by it's clerics.
Also the Irish Government went on to say that the Irish clergy were able to rape thousands of vulnerable children in Ireland because of a "systemic, calculated perversion of power" that put their rapists and pedophiles above Irish Law.
This damning verdict on the conduct of the Irish Catholic Church and secular authorities followed a three-year investigation into allegations of the rape of thousands of children by Irish Catholic priests in Dublin and Ireland going back to the 1960s. Is this the darker side of Irish Church life that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of?
Irish Clerical pedophiles who operated with impunity under the cloak of the priesthood are the true serpents that can and did wreck innocent children’s lives -feeding and with the direct help of the body of the Roman Catholic Church.
A QUESTION OF NUMBERS
The implicit and real crime of the 60,000 secret files is that the evidence was kept inside a secret vault in the Archbishop's own Dublin residence -even as pedophile clerics were moved between parishes to prevent the facts being made public.
What did Archbishop Martin know about the secret files? After all the 60,000 secret files where in his vault, in his residence in Dublin. He should release the files immediately to the public. The Irish people have a right to them; a right to know who and what clerics raped their children.
A key question about the 60,000 secret files is this: given this huge number of files, are these the secret files of all the Clergy in Ireland? If one thinks about it for a moment- there are not that number of Clergy in the whole of Ireland. There were about in 1960s, 16,000 nuns in Ireland and some 14,000 male priests and brothers, including all the male Religious Orders in Ireland.
This number is correct and begs the question of whether the whole barrel of apples are rotten. Because if we add these numbers up, the total is 30,000 Clerics. Yet there are 60,000 secret files in Archbishop Martin’s vault in Dublin.
We are not talking about "a few bad apples here," it would appear the whole barrel is rotten. Call it what you like, whether it's said of bad apples or rotten ones, or of bushels, barrels, baskets or bins, the lot is rotten. A well known metaphor applies-“A fish rots from the head down." Starting with the Pope, it means that the Catholic Church leadership is the root cause of the organisations failures and demise.
THE CAESARS OF ROME
If the Roman Catholic Church is broken, what now? If the Vatican fails to establish and protect a healthy culture, some unhealthy culture will fill that vacuum, and it appears it did. But I say that the leadership of the culture itself, The Vatican is unhealthy. There begins the rot, and soon the fish is lost. It’s time to seriously talk about the closing of the Vatican and abolish the Roman Catholic Church for the good of humanity.
There is a corrupt realm in Rome which pits innocent children against pedophile priests- Good versus pure Evil. The Vatican is a place where sin and unrighteous virtue are celebrated and collide. This is not the supernatural world, this is a real world in which i grew up: the religious-run Institution in Ireland. I’m still faced off in various legal battles against The Dark Side, the force that is The Catholic Church, The Cult.
Hunting the great Whore of Babylon, which was and is Rome. Rome in the form of the Catholic Church is still a power. According to history, when the power of Imperial Rome waned, her Bishops (the Popes) became the new Caesars. That is why the Pope walks around like the King of the world and lives in a palace, the Vatican, and sits on a gold throne.
Instead of having their own standing army, the Popes have used the armies of other nations to do their bidding and to fight their wars. Through the centuries, the Popes have continued to take the styles and names of the Caesars. The Pope is still called "Pontifex Maximus" which means, "High Priest" just as were the Caesars.
Is this what our Archbishop Diarmuid Martin speaks of…What did he, Archbishop Martin really see? did he see the true filth in all of Roman’s glory at the Vatican ? or did the 60,000 secret files he held in his own vault and knew about and doesn’t speak about shake his chosen faith with idiosyncratic beliefs? But sadly the delusional Archbishop choose his own fate, he took the side of pure evil, because he became one of the rotten apples at the head of the rotten fish.
Come, I will show you the face of truth, of the one that calls himself Peter, corruptible forever. Surrounded by 214 flesh eating, blood sucking Cardinal Vultures sitting in judgement, and speaking from their distorted mouths of these false prophets, is Hate, Intolerance and Death, filling the pure air we breathe with their raucous grunts, and barks. And No, the Pope, Pope Francis, does not occupy St. Peter’s chair, he really occupies Caesar's chair, serving up the rancid fish, head and all, camouflaging the foul stench with lashings of rotten apple sauce. Owen Felix O’Neill
60,000 secret files Story Link-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/6663517/Irelands-Roman-Catholic-archbishops-covered-up-abuse-to-protect-churchs-reputation.html
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. Nazi Survivor Elie Wiesel
Our Digital Future is important and already here, opening a window onto the Past.
I tell my story because I believe it is the best weapon I process. I suffered my childhood rapes in silence, but I am no longer as a man willing to remain silent. Owen Felix O'Neill
William Tyndale portrays the standard Catholic Priest as one who patronises prostitutes and exploits the poor, and suggests that Catholic Bishops had set up “Stews of young Boys” to serve as clerical concubines.
A Pastoral Message;- The Irish Catholic Church has said it was “deeply ashamed and saddened to hear, that 100s of Thousands of Rejected babies and children at their Mother and Baby Homes, Orphanages, Industrial Schools, and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland had been "Mistreated” (raped, brutalised and murdered) and that the Irish Catholic Church is very, very sorry. Promising never again, as it had drawn up guidelines to prevent future torture, rapes, brutality and murder by its Clerics, on the MILLIONS of vulnerable children, and women, in their pastoral care, such horrendous incidents will never happen again. It was another time and place in our difficult history, let bygones be bygones and let us all be reconciled in Jesus Christ. "The anger is not just about abuse but also about a Church that was authoritarian harsh, autocratic and self-protecting." - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/6663517/Irelands-Roman-Catholic-archbishops-covered-up-abuse-to-protect-churchs-reputation.html
Ireland's Roman Catholic archbishops 'covered up abuse to protect church's reputation'
Ireland's Roman Catholic archbishops and police covered up four decades of child sex abuse by priests in a conspiracy to protect the reputation of the church, a report found. Clergy were able to molest hundreds of vulnerable children because of a "systemic, calculated perversion of power" that put their abusers above the law, the Irish government said. Gardai frequently ignored complaints from victims, effectively granting priests immunity from prosecution. The inquiry found that church authorities nurtured inappropriately close relations with senior police officers.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/it-is-not-enough-just-to-say-sorry-archbishop-martin-urges-pope-francis-to-tackle-clerical-sexual-abuse-863108.html
One of the most difficult things for any Survivor to do is to publicly accuse their abuser. Such action usually follows a long period of personal struggle about what repercussions such action will have on both the Survivor's family and on the abuser. One of the most successful tactics that the Catholic Church Hierarchy uses in such situations is to deny knowledge of any other allegations against the offending cleric, which has the effect of leaving the Survivor feeling as if they alone and friendless, and thus are responsible for the destruction of the good and holy cleric and his Church. The Catholic Church Hierarchy depends on this.
They will be subtle in their approach by demeaning and degrading the Survivor, by calling into question his/her mental state and thus causing the isolated Survivor to lose their dignity and self-respect. Sadly, many Survivors have committed suicide under the strain of court cases with the attendant personal attacks they have been subjected to and the daunting task of taking on such a well funded organisation as the Catholic Church.
Many Survivors who are brave enough to proceed to a court case soon discover that the Catholic Church Hierarchy has a long history of ignoring or suppressing previous complaints, secret payments of hush-money and a practice of destroying any and all evidence. We Survivors who are up to the task, must step up the fight against the Catholic Church's deliberate isolation of Survivors.
I have been pursuing a High Court action in Ireland against Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop Of Dublin, since 2015 as can be seen by the High Court document above: Case No 3373
At the time of the event I describe, (1970) I was a fifteen year old boy who had been incarcerated in an industrial School in Tralee, County Kerry since the age of nine. When I was fourteen years old, the School put me to work on a farm/guesthouse in Dingle, Co Kerry where I was an unpaid labourer and sex slave. I ran away from the farm after being raped repeatedly by several Christian Brothers who were staying there over the summer, as well as by the owner of the place. One day I managed to escape the hellhole and hitched to Dublin where I eventually ended up in a Hostel, commonly known as the Boys’ Club and situated on Eccles St.. The hostel had been set up by the sitting and perfidious Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid. In Archbishop McQuaid’s own words, the Hostel was “ A place where disadvantaged boys would be looked after by the good clerics of Dublin”. The Boys’ Club was really a renaissance brothel in all but name, visited by coordinated gangs of roaming pedophile Clerics, manipulating and ravishing their flock and wandering, haunting and hunting around Dublin City and the Irish country landscapes for their prey - boys and young men.
Yes, I was looked after all right by the Machiavellian clerics during the three years that I lived there. I was raped repeatedly by a few of the hundreds of visiting unscrupulous clerics, as were many of the other boys. Boys were easily bought with multicoloured sweets, or a concoction of spiked drinks, mind manifesting cigarettes and/or serotonergic and psychedelic toys and drugs. We were wined and dined - but we were always the main course. We vulnerable innocents never stood a chance; we were to be used and abused by clerical snake charmers with insidious kindness, and all encouraged by the fatuous Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid.
I had never known anything better or different - my life up to then was about being raped almost on a weekly basis (which I thought was normal) at the various Religious Institutions I had been detained in. I was born and had lived for four years in St. Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin, where I was used as a guinea pig in various drug experiments carried out by the Welcome Trust Company whose license to do so was granted by the Irish Catholic Church. As a result, I couldn’t walk or stand upright for four years. I was then sold into slavery to St.Philomena's Home in Stillorgan, Dublin for five years and, upon reaching the tender age of nine, I was again sold on. This time it was to the Religious Order of sexual deviants, known as the Christian Brothers, who consigned me to a workhouse - an Industrial School in Tralee, County Kerry. I spent five years in this hellhole: a daily life of hard labour, multiple rapes, daily beatings and both mental and physical torture. Once I was almost murdered there by a Brother after being repeatedly raped. This was my norm, my experience, my daily life. One only has to read the Ryan Report to get the picture.
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/
And then I ended up in the Boys’ Club in Dublin, which brings me to the present-day Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin. For eight years Martin was a regular visitor to this hostel, initially as a young student priest at the seminary at Clonliffe College, Dublin, which was nearby. He was ordained a priest in 1969 and celebrated his first mass at the Boys’ Club, now known as Our Lady’s Hostel for Boys. We boys were encouraged to befriend the visiting seminarians and priests. They were also encouraged to befriend us and to take us for day or evening outings and be available to us for counselling in spiritual and other matters.
I was introduced to Father Diarmuid Martin when I first entered the Hostel in the Summer of 1969 and he encouraged me to confide in him if I had any problems. While I had a multitude of problems, I was suspicious of him as I was of all the visiting clerics. One day I saw Father Diarmuid Martin walking around the Hostel’s backyard while he was reading and reciting (muttering) aloud from a small black book which, in the Catholic Church, is known as the Breviary or the Divine Office. I fell in beside him, because I had decided to overcome my distrust and wanted to speak to him in confidence. I told Father Diarmuid Martin that Archbishop McQuaid and other priests had been having sex with me. I had expected an understanding and comforting response, but, instead, Father Martin was furious with me and slapped me across the face and stormed out of the Hostel yard. I learnt a few weeks later that Father Diarmuid Martin told Archbishop McQuaid, something that was in fact strictly confidental, actually confessional, with him.
Now this was witnessed by two Staff Members of the Hostel at the time: a nun from the kitchen, Sister Genevieve Pendergast, and the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan. I ran into the kitchen and Sister Genevieve asked me why Father Martin had slapped me. I said nothing, but later Sister Genevieve told the Welfare Officer John Ryan, who found me in my bedroom and asked me to come to his office so that he could talk to me. I told John Ryan what I had told Father Martin and, although he didn’t disbelieve me, he told me not to speak to another person about this event, but to keep it a secret and he would deal with it.
Which now brings me to a document that he wrote at the time. Under the Rules of Discovery for my case, my legal team applied to the Archdiocese of Dublin’s Archives for any documents pertaining to me (my name was Patrick McCarthy at that time) and my time at the Hostel. On November 26th 2013, (as date stamped by my Solicitor), we received a document written on Our Lady’s Hostel letterhead dated 10th February 1970. I attach the letter above.
Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, has always claimed that he never knew about any of his fellow priests raping children. The letter by the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan, proves otherwise and is clear written evidence to support my allegation that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin did know about the sexual rapes of orphan boys in the Boys’ Club run by his mentor, Archbishop McQuaid since the 1960s. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is a total hypocrite, as this letter supports. He now claims that he has no memory of me - but can’t explain the letter by the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan.
I publish this letter now because Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is trying to dismiss my court case on some technicalities – such as that it happened years ago and he has no memory of the event. I believe that he thinks because he is a “holy” Archbishop that he is above the law. Something else, my court case was deliberately and conveniently put of, so as not to cause any embarrassment to both the visiting Pope, Francis and of course the Archbishop himself, Diarmuid Martin. Also official court documents were altered so that no member of the public or press could find the court case, before the High Court. If you put in my name "Owen Felix O’Neill" you couldn’t access the court filing, you would have to drop the "Felix" for it to work. (Court Document above)
I hear from some members of the Irish Press that he, Diarmuid Martin is a good and holy man, that he is trying to clean house and we must make allowances for him. I say let’s clean house indeed, but first let’s start with the head man who knew what McQuaid and other peodphile Catholic Priests and Seminarians were doing - and ignored it, in doing this and not speaking out, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin allowed rapes of thousands of other vulnerable children to continue by his passive silence.
There is no excuse for any type of cover up or convenient memory loss by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. If he had had the courage to speak out years ago when he knew what was going on, then perhaps thousands of other vulnerable children would not have been raped in his diocese. I’m not going away--- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. J’accuse!
Owen Felix O'Neill
Our Digital Future is important and already here, opening a window onto the Past.
I tell my story because I believe it is the best weapon I process. I suffered my childhood rapes in silence, but I am no longer as a man willing to remain silent. Owen Felix O'Neill
William Tyndale portrays the standard Catholic Priest as one who patronises prostitutes and exploits the poor, and suggests that Catholic Bishops had set up “Stews of young Boys” to serve as clerical concubines.
A Pastoral Message;- The Irish Catholic Church has said it was “deeply ashamed and saddened to hear, that 100s of Thousands of Rejected babies and children at their Mother and Baby Homes, Orphanages, Industrial Schools, and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland had been "Mistreated” (raped, brutalised and murdered) and that the Irish Catholic Church is very, very sorry. Promising never again, as it had drawn up guidelines to prevent future torture, rapes, brutality and murder by its Clerics, on the MILLIONS of vulnerable children, and women, in their pastoral care, such horrendous incidents will never happen again. It was another time and place in our difficult history, let bygones be bygones and let us all be reconciled in Jesus Christ. "The anger is not just about abuse but also about a Church that was authoritarian harsh, autocratic and self-protecting." - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/6663517/Irelands-Roman-Catholic-archbishops-covered-up-abuse-to-protect-churchs-reputation.html
Ireland's Roman Catholic archbishops 'covered up abuse to protect church's reputation'
Ireland's Roman Catholic archbishops and police covered up four decades of child sex abuse by priests in a conspiracy to protect the reputation of the church, a report found. Clergy were able to molest hundreds of vulnerable children because of a "systemic, calculated perversion of power" that put their abusers above the law, the Irish government said. Gardai frequently ignored complaints from victims, effectively granting priests immunity from prosecution. The inquiry found that church authorities nurtured inappropriately close relations with senior police officers.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/it-is-not-enough-just-to-say-sorry-archbishop-martin-urges-pope-francis-to-tackle-clerical-sexual-abuse-863108.html
One of the most difficult things for any Survivor to do is to publicly accuse their abuser. Such action usually follows a long period of personal struggle about what repercussions such action will have on both the Survivor's family and on the abuser. One of the most successful tactics that the Catholic Church Hierarchy uses in such situations is to deny knowledge of any other allegations against the offending cleric, which has the effect of leaving the Survivor feeling as if they alone and friendless, and thus are responsible for the destruction of the good and holy cleric and his Church. The Catholic Church Hierarchy depends on this.
They will be subtle in their approach by demeaning and degrading the Survivor, by calling into question his/her mental state and thus causing the isolated Survivor to lose their dignity and self-respect. Sadly, many Survivors have committed suicide under the strain of court cases with the attendant personal attacks they have been subjected to and the daunting task of taking on such a well funded organisation as the Catholic Church.
Many Survivors who are brave enough to proceed to a court case soon discover that the Catholic Church Hierarchy has a long history of ignoring or suppressing previous complaints, secret payments of hush-money and a practice of destroying any and all evidence. We Survivors who are up to the task, must step up the fight against the Catholic Church's deliberate isolation of Survivors.
I have been pursuing a High Court action in Ireland against Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop Of Dublin, since 2015 as can be seen by the High Court document above: Case No 3373
At the time of the event I describe, (1970) I was a fifteen year old boy who had been incarcerated in an industrial School in Tralee, County Kerry since the age of nine. When I was fourteen years old, the School put me to work on a farm/guesthouse in Dingle, Co Kerry where I was an unpaid labourer and sex slave. I ran away from the farm after being raped repeatedly by several Christian Brothers who were staying there over the summer, as well as by the owner of the place. One day I managed to escape the hellhole and hitched to Dublin where I eventually ended up in a Hostel, commonly known as the Boys’ Club and situated on Eccles St.. The hostel had been set up by the sitting and perfidious Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid. In Archbishop McQuaid’s own words, the Hostel was “ A place where disadvantaged boys would be looked after by the good clerics of Dublin”. The Boys’ Club was really a renaissance brothel in all but name, visited by coordinated gangs of roaming pedophile Clerics, manipulating and ravishing their flock and wandering, haunting and hunting around Dublin City and the Irish country landscapes for their prey - boys and young men.
Yes, I was looked after all right by the Machiavellian clerics during the three years that I lived there. I was raped repeatedly by a few of the hundreds of visiting unscrupulous clerics, as were many of the other boys. Boys were easily bought with multicoloured sweets, or a concoction of spiked drinks, mind manifesting cigarettes and/or serotonergic and psychedelic toys and drugs. We were wined and dined - but we were always the main course. We vulnerable innocents never stood a chance; we were to be used and abused by clerical snake charmers with insidious kindness, and all encouraged by the fatuous Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid.
I had never known anything better or different - my life up to then was about being raped almost on a weekly basis (which I thought was normal) at the various Religious Institutions I had been detained in. I was born and had lived for four years in St. Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin, where I was used as a guinea pig in various drug experiments carried out by the Welcome Trust Company whose license to do so was granted by the Irish Catholic Church. As a result, I couldn’t walk or stand upright for four years. I was then sold into slavery to St.Philomena's Home in Stillorgan, Dublin for five years and, upon reaching the tender age of nine, I was again sold on. This time it was to the Religious Order of sexual deviants, known as the Christian Brothers, who consigned me to a workhouse - an Industrial School in Tralee, County Kerry. I spent five years in this hellhole: a daily life of hard labour, multiple rapes, daily beatings and both mental and physical torture. Once I was almost murdered there by a Brother after being repeatedly raped. This was my norm, my experience, my daily life. One only has to read the Ryan Report to get the picture.
http://www.childabusecommission.ie/rpt/
And then I ended up in the Boys’ Club in Dublin, which brings me to the present-day Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin. For eight years Martin was a regular visitor to this hostel, initially as a young student priest at the seminary at Clonliffe College, Dublin, which was nearby. He was ordained a priest in 1969 and celebrated his first mass at the Boys’ Club, now known as Our Lady’s Hostel for Boys. We boys were encouraged to befriend the visiting seminarians and priests. They were also encouraged to befriend us and to take us for day or evening outings and be available to us for counselling in spiritual and other matters.
I was introduced to Father Diarmuid Martin when I first entered the Hostel in the Summer of 1969 and he encouraged me to confide in him if I had any problems. While I had a multitude of problems, I was suspicious of him as I was of all the visiting clerics. One day I saw Father Diarmuid Martin walking around the Hostel’s backyard while he was reading and reciting (muttering) aloud from a small black book which, in the Catholic Church, is known as the Breviary or the Divine Office. I fell in beside him, because I had decided to overcome my distrust and wanted to speak to him in confidence. I told Father Diarmuid Martin that Archbishop McQuaid and other priests had been having sex with me. I had expected an understanding and comforting response, but, instead, Father Martin was furious with me and slapped me across the face and stormed out of the Hostel yard. I learnt a few weeks later that Father Diarmuid Martin told Archbishop McQuaid, something that was in fact strictly confidental, actually confessional, with him.
Now this was witnessed by two Staff Members of the Hostel at the time: a nun from the kitchen, Sister Genevieve Pendergast, and the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan. I ran into the kitchen and Sister Genevieve asked me why Father Martin had slapped me. I said nothing, but later Sister Genevieve told the Welfare Officer John Ryan, who found me in my bedroom and asked me to come to his office so that he could talk to me. I told John Ryan what I had told Father Martin and, although he didn’t disbelieve me, he told me not to speak to another person about this event, but to keep it a secret and he would deal with it.
Which now brings me to a document that he wrote at the time. Under the Rules of Discovery for my case, my legal team applied to the Archdiocese of Dublin’s Archives for any documents pertaining to me (my name was Patrick McCarthy at that time) and my time at the Hostel. On November 26th 2013, (as date stamped by my Solicitor), we received a document written on Our Lady’s Hostel letterhead dated 10th February 1970. I attach the letter above.
Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, has always claimed that he never knew about any of his fellow priests raping children. The letter by the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan, proves otherwise and is clear written evidence to support my allegation that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin did know about the sexual rapes of orphan boys in the Boys’ Club run by his mentor, Archbishop McQuaid since the 1960s. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is a total hypocrite, as this letter supports. He now claims that he has no memory of me - but can’t explain the letter by the Welfare Officer of the Hostel, John Ryan.
I publish this letter now because Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is trying to dismiss my court case on some technicalities – such as that it happened years ago and he has no memory of the event. I believe that he thinks because he is a “holy” Archbishop that he is above the law. Something else, my court case was deliberately and conveniently put of, so as not to cause any embarrassment to both the visiting Pope, Francis and of course the Archbishop himself, Diarmuid Martin. Also official court documents were altered so that no member of the public or press could find the court case, before the High Court. If you put in my name "Owen Felix O’Neill" you couldn’t access the court filing, you would have to drop the "Felix" for it to work. (Court Document above)
I hear from some members of the Irish Press that he, Diarmuid Martin is a good and holy man, that he is trying to clean house and we must make allowances for him. I say let’s clean house indeed, but first let’s start with the head man who knew what McQuaid and other peodphile Catholic Priests and Seminarians were doing - and ignored it, in doing this and not speaking out, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin allowed rapes of thousands of other vulnerable children to continue by his passive silence.
There is no excuse for any type of cover up or convenient memory loss by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. If he had had the courage to speak out years ago when he knew what was going on, then perhaps thousands of other vulnerable children would not have been raped in his diocese. I’m not going away--- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. J’accuse!
Owen Felix O'Neill
The Archbishop Martin's "IRONY" —--
'Only a proportion' of clerical abuse victims have come forward, Archbishop says-Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said that more could be done to encourage victims to come forward.
Read full story below, just click on the link--
https://www.thejournal.ie/martin-clerical-abuse-world-meeting-4195976-Aug2018/
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin Accused of Paedophile cover-up
Martin: Is there a paedophile ring?
Disturbing connections between abusing priests prompts Archbishop's request to Gardai for further investigation
THE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, asked the Gardai to investigate whether a Clerical Paedophile ring was operating in the Archdiocese. Dr Diarmuid Martin made the request to the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations after he examined files on Paedophile Priests in recent years. He was disturbed by close connections between a number of clerics who were later convicted of child abuse, according to sources, and asked Gardai to investigate.
Read the full story below on the Independent Newspaper by MAEVE SHEEHAN;-
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/martin-is-there-a-paedophile-ring-26586696.html
'Only a proportion' of clerical abuse victims have come forward, Archbishop says-Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said that more could be done to encourage victims to come forward.
Read full story below, just click on the link--
https://www.thejournal.ie/martin-clerical-abuse-world-meeting-4195976-Aug2018/
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin Accused of Paedophile cover-up
Martin: Is there a paedophile ring?
Disturbing connections between abusing priests prompts Archbishop's request to Gardai for further investigation
THE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, asked the Gardai to investigate whether a Clerical Paedophile ring was operating in the Archdiocese. Dr Diarmuid Martin made the request to the National Bureau of Criminal Investigations after he examined files on Paedophile Priests in recent years. He was disturbed by close connections between a number of clerics who were later convicted of child abuse, according to sources, and asked Gardai to investigate.
Read the full story below on the Independent Newspaper by MAEVE SHEEHAN;-
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/martin-is-there-a-paedophile-ring-26586696.html
Top Vatican Official Resigns After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment;-
Father Hermann Geissler worked in the Vatican’s Doctrinal Congregation, which handles discipline for sexual rape cases of Children.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vatican-official-resigns-sexual-harassment-claims_us_5c510cb5e4b00906b26e6ab0?guccounter=1
Father Hermann Geissler worked in the Vatican’s Doctrinal Congregation, which handles discipline for sexual rape cases of Children.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vatican-official-resigns-sexual-harassment-claims_us_5c510cb5e4b00906b26e6ab0?guccounter=1
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. Nazi Survivor Elie Wiesel
Our Digital Future is important and already here, opening a window onto the Past.
I tell my story because I believe it is the best weapon I process. I suffered my childhood rapes in silence, but I am no longer as a man willing to remain silent. Owen Felix O'Neill
William Tyndale portrays the standard Catholic Priest as one who patronises prostitutes and exploits the poor, and suggests that Catholic Bishops had set up “Stews of young Boys” to serve as clerical concubines.
A Pastoral Message;- The Irish Catholic Church has said it was “deeply ashamed and saddened to hear, that 100s of Thousands of Rejected babies and children at their Mother and Baby Homes, Orphanages, Industrial Schools, and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland had been "Mistreated” (raped, brutalised and murdered) and that the Irish Catholic Church is very, very sorry. Promising never again, as it had drawn up guidelines to prevent future torture, rapes, brutality and murder by its Clerics, on the MILLIONS of vulnerable children, and women, in their pastoral care, such horrendous incidents will never happen again. It was another time and place in our difficult history, let bygones be bygones and let us all be reconciled in Jesus Christ. "The anger is not just about abuse but also about a Church that was authoritarian harsh, autocratic and self-protecting." - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/it-is-not-enough-just-to-say-sorry-archbishop-martin-urges-pope-francis-to-tackle-clerical-sexual-abuse-863108.html
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/it-is-not-enough-just-to-say-sorry-archbishop-martin-urges-pope-francis-to-tackle-clerical-sexual-abuse-863108.html
One of the most difficult things for any Survivor to do is to publicly accuse their abuser. Such action usually follows a long period of personal struggle about what repercussions such action will have on both the Survivor's family and on the abuser. One of the most successful tactics that the Catholic Church Hierarchy uses in such situations is to deny knowledge of any other allegations against the offending cleric, which has the effect of leaving the Survivor feeling as if they alone and friendless, and thus are responsible for the destruction of the good and holy cleric and his Church. The Catholic Church Hierarchy depends on this.
They will be subtle in their approach by demeaning and degrading the Survivor, by calling into question his/her mental state and thus causing the isolated Survivor to lose their dignity and self-respect. Sadly, many Survivors have committed suicide under the strain of court cases with the attendant personal attacks they have been subjected to and the daunting task of taking on such a well funded organisation as the Catholic Church.
Many Survivors who are brave enough to proceed to a court case soon discover that the Catholic Church Hierarchy has a long history of ignoring or suppressing previous complaints, secret payments of hush-money and a practice of destroying any and all evidence. We Survivors who are up to the task, must step up the fight against the Catholic Church's deliberate isolation of Survivors.
They will be subtle in their approach by demeaning and degrading the Survivor, by calling into question his/her mental state and thus causing the isolated Survivor to lose their dignity and self-respect. Sadly, many Survivors have committed suicide under the strain of court cases with the attendant personal attacks they have been subjected to and the daunting task of taking on such a well funded organisation as the Catholic Church.
Many Survivors who are brave enough to proceed to a court case soon discover that the Catholic Church Hierarchy has a long history of ignoring or suppressing previous complaints, secret payments of hush-money and a practice of destroying any and all evidence. We Survivors who are up to the task, must step up the fight against the Catholic Church's deliberate isolation of Survivors.
The Problem with Secret Agreements.
Nondisclosure agreements signed by Survivors with the Irish Catholic Church, is a major problem, and allows the Irish Catholic Church to get away with the heinous crimes of the sexual rape of children. Allowing the Irish Catholic Church to continue to hide their shameful Peterphiles ( pedophiles ) in plain sight, in many parishes throughout Ireland. Sadly with those secret settlements, the Irish Catholic Church flourishes, claiming that there are no allegations against them. These allegations against the Irish Catholic Church, once conveniently swept aside, could suddenly become a problem. They have the potential to become a major problem if it became known to the wider Irish public, “Secret Payouts”, If the payments are known and not secret the Irish Catholic Church would not last very long, detailed sexual harassment and sexual abuse claims against the Irish Catholic Church go back many decades. The Irish Catholic Church like to claim that the sexual rape of children goes back only a few years when in reality, Peterphiles within the Irish Catholic Church really goes back a thousand years and probably much more.
Now, a national reckoning is underway. Allegations of sexual harassment and rape have prompted action by a few brave Survivors, accusations would forced the resignation of higher officials in the Irish Catholic Church. But the Irish Catholic Church depends on these secret agreements to hide and deny any wrongdoing on its part. But it is a reckoning long delayed. And a big reason for the delay has to do with the out-of-court settlements and the nondisclosure agreements that go with them. In other words secrecy, confidentiality with all the legal threats alined with the secret agreements. The Irish Catholic Church are masters at this deception and have one of the biggest legal firms in Ireland whose only function is to enforce these secret agreements. If these nondisclosure agreement or spigots were ignored we would have put a finish to the Irish Catholic Church power. Many Survivors of Cleric sexual abuse and rape, are forced into these confidential settlements with threats of financial ruin, lost of their homes, poverty, and reputation within their families and in their local community destroyed. I know from personal experience, The legal firm representing the Irish Catholic Church goes after the Survivor like sharks, as in my case before the Irish High Court, demanding minute details of their entire personal life. Are you married?, how many children,? have you interfered with them,? if single are you a deviant a homosexual?, do you fornicate with boys?.
You will be asked about previous partners, how many, colour of their underwear and even about owning sex toys, and the type of sex you like, it is really to destroy you and humiliate you at every turn. The Church’s ebullient legal team want a complete list of your sex partners, with their names and dates of birth. They will attempt to contact them to apply pressure to silence you. You are told you will be brutally cross examined in court. This process is designed to re-traumatises you and cause as much irreparable harm as it can, hoping you will withdraw, and when you withdraw, you are saddled with the entire legal cost of both sides, plus court costs, which will run into hundreds of thousands of euros, your financial ruin, is guaranteed. This is what is suggested to me by my own legal team and the Archbishop’s legal team, it’s to put the fear and terror into you, we will take your house an all contents?, all your money,? your dignity, and finally you will take your own life. We only get untruths from an utterly untruthful Irish Catholic Church.
The Irish Catholic Church tells you through your own legal team and their friends, that you will pay the total cost, they want to panic you, to frighten you, to belittle and humiliate you at every turn. You are indirectly encouraged to commit suicide and that is what they the Irish Catholic Church Legal Team are hoping for, your total demise. It is total psychological warfare, their actions are intended to reduce your morale. This is done through the various questions normally 50 questions first, a kind of feeling you out, soft ball questions, to build your confidence, you reply thinking this is easy, you sign of and then a few weeks later another 50 questions, more personal, your background, your work history, the aim of evoking this planned psychological reaction is to give you a false sense of worth, the later questions are designed to totally dismantle you, both psychologically and physically, your values, your belief system, your emotions, motives, reasoning and most of all your behaviour. The Irish Catholic Church is well versed in using these various techniques to influence you, you as the target and your reaction.
No Survivor can or could survive this type of propaganda which will drain you, it’s also for the public opinion war if it comes out in court, the battle is no longer you, it’s the power of public opinion. Every Survivor is handicapped, you see every Survivor who was born in a Mother and Baby Home has a criminal record, a disadvantage, if he or she was sent to another Religious Run Institution, you were sent their by the Irish Courts, hence the criminal record. So the first question is really very simple, you will be asked “have you a criminal record”, most Survivors would say no they don’t, but you see the Irish Catholic Church’s Legal Team will point out to you that you lied in open court, and bring up your criminal record as proof.
The Irish Catholic Church Legal Team is going to strip away every thing you stand for, and smear you, that’s their job, they will hire the best, the most brutal Barristers, every bit of imaginary dirt will be used against you in open court, it’s no longer about your been raped as a child by a Cleric, nor the truth, nor even justice, it’s about them winning, by all means, hence preventing other Survivors coming forward. Survivors of sexual abuse and rape face the real possibility of being humiliated, again and again and in open court, and their credibility undermined by defence Barristers asking questions about their sexual partners, their clothing and appearance, their entire life if they go to court, is laid bare, unvarnished, warts and all, this is why very few cases of clerical rape of Survivors go to open court in Ireland. And the other thing is, if you are MALE, which will be used against you, specially if you are gay. A significant proportion of victims of rape and other sexual violence at the hands of Priests were and are male. Generally, rape is still thought to be a crime against women specifically and has been historically defined this way, throughout human history, although many cases of male-victim rape have become subject of public discussion recently in Ireland. Rape of males or male children is still taboo, here in Ireland and has a negative connotation among both heterosexual and homosexual men, and more so when a male Survivor is in an open Irish Court.
Understandably mostly, male victims or Survivors try to hide and deny their victimisation, similar to female victims, unless they have serious physical injuries. Eventually, the male Survivors, who may be very vague in explaining their injuries and rapes when they are seeking medical or mental health services in Ireland or abroad, in most case will only say, “I was abused”, nothing more, they are unable to specify the abuse, most if not all would never say, “I was Anally Raped”, the gleeful Church and their exuberant Legal Team know this, it makes their job much easier. It is also very difficult for a male Survivor, be heterosexual or gay, to report the sexual assault to the Irish Police that was experienced by him, a Survivor as a child, especially in a society like Ireland with its strong Catholic traditions. Male Survivors are afraid and know that people will doubt their sexual orientation and label them as gay or deviants, a term that the Irish Catholic Church loves to characterise, as a sexual disorder characterised by recurrent intense sexual urges, they equate a gay person with been a pedophile, according to the thinking of the Irish Catholic Church, it only applies to Gay men in their eyes, deviants. The brave Survivor also dreads the prospect of his local newspaper reports, covering the case from Dublin, with the headlines, local man says “I was Anally Raped”.
A perception of being gay is also a motive in many cases. Most Survivors have never told their own family, not even their wives or partners, their children, about their childhood of rapes as children, at the hands of Male Clerics in the harsh Irish Industrial Schools, something sadly they will take, their secrets to the graves with them. Survivors of clerical rapists, are heavily stigmatised and sometimes are told at a ground rule hearings, that their sexual history or criminal history would not be used against them, they are told it’s meaningless. But once in open court they face many questions and allegations that they are promiscuous, what with their entire sexual history is used against them, in open court, there will be no judicial intervention, at least not from the Irish Courts. This form of aggression is hard to defend against, because no court of justice in Ireland is capable of protecting against psychological aggression since it cannot be legally adjudicated. Here the Legal and Church propagandists are dealing with a adversary, a sinful Survivor, whose morale they want to totally destroy by psychological means so that the Survivor begins to doubt the validity of his or her beliefs and actions. This is not about you, it is designed to let other Survivors at large know, never to bring sexual abuse cases against the Irish Catholic Church.
Above all the Irish Catholic Church fears the media’s attention and the wider Irish Public knowing their horrendous dirty secrets. Survivors silence, along with the secret agreements allows the Irish Catholic Church to issue statements saying “no wrongdoing whatsoever” It’s all about money, it has always been about money and nothing else, according to the Irish Catholic Church, but wait,!, it's about protecting their reputation, of the powerful and good Irish Catholic Church, their reputation and nothing else matters, the raping or torture of children doesn’t matter to the Irish Catholic Church, but its reputation does. As does it power with the Irish Civil Government and getting tax payers money for free.
The Irish newspapers, and TV stations are filled with reports of Clerical sexual harassment and rape cases of children written in invisible ink, and empty words, and Irish Catholic Church platitudes, almost daily. Many brave Survivors have filed lawsuits in the Irish High Courts as adults accusing various Clerics of rape when they were children, some of the children as adults now, were raped from the tender age of 4 years old. Many were looking forward to their day in court, but bullying by both their legal teams and the different archdioceses in Ireland have taken there toil. We have the systemic silencing of Survivors, through secret agreements, a stratagem that, yes, compensates the accusers, but also enriches the Irish Lawyers on both sides who arrange the secret deals and, arguably, leaves Survivors very, very vulnerable.
I know a vulnerable Survivor who spent 7 years fighting a sexual abuse case in the Irish High Court, only to win, but was so debased after the 7 years fight and what the Irish Catholic Church put him through, that one month after his win and his payout, he want for a walk into his nearby woods and topped himself, rather than to face his family, who he never told, nor any of his friends, except me. I was gutted when I learnt of the manner of his lonely death.
I understand as a Survivor the right to protect their privacy, and my own privacy, many Survivors don’t want anybody to know, I understand that. I myself have for the last four years have undertaken an action in the Irish High Court, in Dublin, against the sitting Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin and the Archdioceses of Dublin. My problem is I don’t give a toss for the money, I refuse to sign any secret agreement with the Archdioceses of Dublin and its Archbishop, I don’t want them to get away with it. You see paying out money, that’s an admission that the Archdioceses has done something that they should not have done, and the secret agreements allows them to continue to hide and deny any wrongdoing. The legitimacy or conformity to the law or to its rules of any secret agreements where the inequality of power, exercised by the Irish Catholic Church, is so bare in appearance and relies solely on money and money only, rather than decency, probity and righteousness.
The Irish Catholic Church asserted that they struck the deals only to “protect the good name of Mother Church. In return for the monies, the Irish Catholic Church have paid out to Survivors, the Irish Catholic Church has bought more, then their silence, as part of the secret agreement. In addition the “no claims” in such secret agreements regarding the allegations in their initial complaints.The use of nondisclosure secret agreements closes down any investigations, by the Irish Police or Irish Government enquiry into sexual rape allegations committed on children, against the Irish Catholic Church, or the Irish Press, for that matter. It’s also denies the Survivor the freedom to tell his or her story, which he or she can never do, the Survivor can’t tell, or write or even tell their own family or friends, that’s part of any secret agreements signed away. The Survivor signs away their rights to free speech. Also the secret agreements has A “Non-Disparagement “ or “Protection of Reputation” clause, that restricts the Survivor from taking any action that negatively impacts the Irish Catholic Church, its reputation, or Church Officials, non disparagement are found in virtually all secret settlement agreements.
Today in Ireland, the Irish Catholic Church has paid out, well over €1 Billion Euros to Survivors of Clerical Rape, and continues to do so, to this day and will do so, way into the future. Tens of Thousands of Irish Survivors, male and female have been paid in this way, in Secret, all signed secret agreements. My High Court Action against Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin is not that he raped me, (he didn’t,) nor sexually assaulted me, (he didn’t,) but that he, Diarmuid Martin, as a very young priest knew of other senior Clerics who did rape me, when I was 15 years old. I offer the proof, it speak’s for itself. I have a letter, minutes of all the meetings held weekly, Visitor’s Log Book and other unimpeachable documentations and something else, truth is on my side. But what is truth, when the Roman Catholic Church claims a monopoly on veracity, that which is true and in accordance with their facts, their reality, and their secret agreements.
No Senior Irish Church Official has ever been charged or arrested, none have ever been in open court in Ireland, it’s time this changed, equality before the law, I believe in. I’m entitled to equal protection of the law. Equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination and so does Diarmuid Martin. Being an Archbishop does give him an advantage before the law, because, sadly in Ireland, having holy titles does this. Proper etiquette still applies, like "the Most Reverend" “Your Grace" “Your Excellency”, used before his name, makes it so, how very grand. For me, hard to believe, I have a Criminal Record, as does tens of thousands of fellow Survivors, both male and female. I have one, since the age of 4, the Irish High Court bestowed it on me. I’m 63 years old now, I have a few Criminal Records to this day, my first crime was my Mother was unmarried, I’m a bastard, her son, I’m now considered a seasoned criminal before the eyes of both the Irish Courts and Irish Society. My Title is not as grand, as the Archbishop’s;- let me see, Felon Owen Felix O’Neill or Criminal Owen Felix O’Neill. Mind you I like the sound of my own title, Felon O’Neill, I like better, “the Most Reverend” would never suit me, to grand a title. I’ll stick with Felon as a reminder of my hapless childhood of my first 18 years.
Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ;- states that "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.” Thus, everyone must be treated equally under the law regardless of race, gender, national origin, colour, ethnicity, religion, disability, or other characteristics, without privilege, discrimination or bias.
The Irish Constitution guarantees all the above, equality, regardless of race;- But the noble Universal Declaration of Human Rights seems not to apply to The Roman Catholic Church, nor The Irish Catholic Church, they claim they are above the Law and are only answerable to God’s Law. The theology of the Roman Catholic Church is based on natural Law, canonical scripture, divine revelation, and sacred tradition, as interpreted authoritatively by the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit reveals God's truth through sacred scripture and sacred tradition and not man’s secular LAWS, which have never applied to them. Owen Felix O’Neill
Nondisclosure agreements signed by Survivors with the Irish Catholic Church, is a major problem, and allows the Irish Catholic Church to get away with the heinous crimes of the sexual rape of children. Allowing the Irish Catholic Church to continue to hide their shameful Peterphiles ( pedophiles ) in plain sight, in many parishes throughout Ireland. Sadly with those secret settlements, the Irish Catholic Church flourishes, claiming that there are no allegations against them. These allegations against the Irish Catholic Church, once conveniently swept aside, could suddenly become a problem. They have the potential to become a major problem if it became known to the wider Irish public, “Secret Payouts”, If the payments are known and not secret the Irish Catholic Church would not last very long, detailed sexual harassment and sexual abuse claims against the Irish Catholic Church go back many decades. The Irish Catholic Church like to claim that the sexual rape of children goes back only a few years when in reality, Peterphiles within the Irish Catholic Church really goes back a thousand years and probably much more.
Now, a national reckoning is underway. Allegations of sexual harassment and rape have prompted action by a few brave Survivors, accusations would forced the resignation of higher officials in the Irish Catholic Church. But the Irish Catholic Church depends on these secret agreements to hide and deny any wrongdoing on its part. But it is a reckoning long delayed. And a big reason for the delay has to do with the out-of-court settlements and the nondisclosure agreements that go with them. In other words secrecy, confidentiality with all the legal threats alined with the secret agreements. The Irish Catholic Church are masters at this deception and have one of the biggest legal firms in Ireland whose only function is to enforce these secret agreements. If these nondisclosure agreement or spigots were ignored we would have put a finish to the Irish Catholic Church power. Many Survivors of Cleric sexual abuse and rape, are forced into these confidential settlements with threats of financial ruin, lost of their homes, poverty, and reputation within their families and in their local community destroyed. I know from personal experience, The legal firm representing the Irish Catholic Church goes after the Survivor like sharks, as in my case before the Irish High Court, demanding minute details of their entire personal life. Are you married?, how many children,? have you interfered with them,? if single are you a deviant a homosexual?, do you fornicate with boys?.
You will be asked about previous partners, how many, colour of their underwear and even about owning sex toys, and the type of sex you like, it is really to destroy you and humiliate you at every turn. The Church’s ebullient legal team want a complete list of your sex partners, with their names and dates of birth. They will attempt to contact them to apply pressure to silence you. You are told you will be brutally cross examined in court. This process is designed to re-traumatises you and cause as much irreparable harm as it can, hoping you will withdraw, and when you withdraw, you are saddled with the entire legal cost of both sides, plus court costs, which will run into hundreds of thousands of euros, your financial ruin, is guaranteed. This is what is suggested to me by my own legal team and the Archbishop’s legal team, it’s to put the fear and terror into you, we will take your house an all contents?, all your money,? your dignity, and finally you will take your own life. We only get untruths from an utterly untruthful Irish Catholic Church.
The Irish Catholic Church tells you through your own legal team and their friends, that you will pay the total cost, they want to panic you, to frighten you, to belittle and humiliate you at every turn. You are indirectly encouraged to commit suicide and that is what they the Irish Catholic Church Legal Team are hoping for, your total demise. It is total psychological warfare, their actions are intended to reduce your morale. This is done through the various questions normally 50 questions first, a kind of feeling you out, soft ball questions, to build your confidence, you reply thinking this is easy, you sign of and then a few weeks later another 50 questions, more personal, your background, your work history, the aim of evoking this planned psychological reaction is to give you a false sense of worth, the later questions are designed to totally dismantle you, both psychologically and physically, your values, your belief system, your emotions, motives, reasoning and most of all your behaviour. The Irish Catholic Church is well versed in using these various techniques to influence you, you as the target and your reaction.
No Survivor can or could survive this type of propaganda which will drain you, it’s also for the public opinion war if it comes out in court, the battle is no longer you, it’s the power of public opinion. Every Survivor is handicapped, you see every Survivor who was born in a Mother and Baby Home has a criminal record, a disadvantage, if he or she was sent to another Religious Run Institution, you were sent their by the Irish Courts, hence the criminal record. So the first question is really very simple, you will be asked “have you a criminal record”, most Survivors would say no they don’t, but you see the Irish Catholic Church’s Legal Team will point out to you that you lied in open court, and bring up your criminal record as proof.
The Irish Catholic Church Legal Team is going to strip away every thing you stand for, and smear you, that’s their job, they will hire the best, the most brutal Barristers, every bit of imaginary dirt will be used against you in open court, it’s no longer about your been raped as a child by a Cleric, nor the truth, nor even justice, it’s about them winning, by all means, hence preventing other Survivors coming forward. Survivors of sexual abuse and rape face the real possibility of being humiliated, again and again and in open court, and their credibility undermined by defence Barristers asking questions about their sexual partners, their clothing and appearance, their entire life if they go to court, is laid bare, unvarnished, warts and all, this is why very few cases of clerical rape of Survivors go to open court in Ireland. And the other thing is, if you are MALE, which will be used against you, specially if you are gay. A significant proportion of victims of rape and other sexual violence at the hands of Priests were and are male. Generally, rape is still thought to be a crime against women specifically and has been historically defined this way, throughout human history, although many cases of male-victim rape have become subject of public discussion recently in Ireland. Rape of males or male children is still taboo, here in Ireland and has a negative connotation among both heterosexual and homosexual men, and more so when a male Survivor is in an open Irish Court.
Understandably mostly, male victims or Survivors try to hide and deny their victimisation, similar to female victims, unless they have serious physical injuries. Eventually, the male Survivors, who may be very vague in explaining their injuries and rapes when they are seeking medical or mental health services in Ireland or abroad, in most case will only say, “I was abused”, nothing more, they are unable to specify the abuse, most if not all would never say, “I was Anally Raped”, the gleeful Church and their exuberant Legal Team know this, it makes their job much easier. It is also very difficult for a male Survivor, be heterosexual or gay, to report the sexual assault to the Irish Police that was experienced by him, a Survivor as a child, especially in a society like Ireland with its strong Catholic traditions. Male Survivors are afraid and know that people will doubt their sexual orientation and label them as gay or deviants, a term that the Irish Catholic Church loves to characterise, as a sexual disorder characterised by recurrent intense sexual urges, they equate a gay person with been a pedophile, according to the thinking of the Irish Catholic Church, it only applies to Gay men in their eyes, deviants. The brave Survivor also dreads the prospect of his local newspaper reports, covering the case from Dublin, with the headlines, local man says “I was Anally Raped”.
A perception of being gay is also a motive in many cases. Most Survivors have never told their own family, not even their wives or partners, their children, about their childhood of rapes as children, at the hands of Male Clerics in the harsh Irish Industrial Schools, something sadly they will take, their secrets to the graves with them. Survivors of clerical rapists, are heavily stigmatised and sometimes are told at a ground rule hearings, that their sexual history or criminal history would not be used against them, they are told it’s meaningless. But once in open court they face many questions and allegations that they are promiscuous, what with their entire sexual history is used against them, in open court, there will be no judicial intervention, at least not from the Irish Courts. This form of aggression is hard to defend against, because no court of justice in Ireland is capable of protecting against psychological aggression since it cannot be legally adjudicated. Here the Legal and Church propagandists are dealing with a adversary, a sinful Survivor, whose morale they want to totally destroy by psychological means so that the Survivor begins to doubt the validity of his or her beliefs and actions. This is not about you, it is designed to let other Survivors at large know, never to bring sexual abuse cases against the Irish Catholic Church.
Above all the Irish Catholic Church fears the media’s attention and the wider Irish Public knowing their horrendous dirty secrets. Survivors silence, along with the secret agreements allows the Irish Catholic Church to issue statements saying “no wrongdoing whatsoever” It’s all about money, it has always been about money and nothing else, according to the Irish Catholic Church, but wait,!, it's about protecting their reputation, of the powerful and good Irish Catholic Church, their reputation and nothing else matters, the raping or torture of children doesn’t matter to the Irish Catholic Church, but its reputation does. As does it power with the Irish Civil Government and getting tax payers money for free.
The Irish newspapers, and TV stations are filled with reports of Clerical sexual harassment and rape cases of children written in invisible ink, and empty words, and Irish Catholic Church platitudes, almost daily. Many brave Survivors have filed lawsuits in the Irish High Courts as adults accusing various Clerics of rape when they were children, some of the children as adults now, were raped from the tender age of 4 years old. Many were looking forward to their day in court, but bullying by both their legal teams and the different archdioceses in Ireland have taken there toil. We have the systemic silencing of Survivors, through secret agreements, a stratagem that, yes, compensates the accusers, but also enriches the Irish Lawyers on both sides who arrange the secret deals and, arguably, leaves Survivors very, very vulnerable.
I know a vulnerable Survivor who spent 7 years fighting a sexual abuse case in the Irish High Court, only to win, but was so debased after the 7 years fight and what the Irish Catholic Church put him through, that one month after his win and his payout, he want for a walk into his nearby woods and topped himself, rather than to face his family, who he never told, nor any of his friends, except me. I was gutted when I learnt of the manner of his lonely death.
I understand as a Survivor the right to protect their privacy, and my own privacy, many Survivors don’t want anybody to know, I understand that. I myself have for the last four years have undertaken an action in the Irish High Court, in Dublin, against the sitting Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin and the Archdioceses of Dublin. My problem is I don’t give a toss for the money, I refuse to sign any secret agreement with the Archdioceses of Dublin and its Archbishop, I don’t want them to get away with it. You see paying out money, that’s an admission that the Archdioceses has done something that they should not have done, and the secret agreements allows them to continue to hide and deny any wrongdoing. The legitimacy or conformity to the law or to its rules of any secret agreements where the inequality of power, exercised by the Irish Catholic Church, is so bare in appearance and relies solely on money and money only, rather than decency, probity and righteousness.
The Irish Catholic Church asserted that they struck the deals only to “protect the good name of Mother Church. In return for the monies, the Irish Catholic Church have paid out to Survivors, the Irish Catholic Church has bought more, then their silence, as part of the secret agreement. In addition the “no claims” in such secret agreements regarding the allegations in their initial complaints.The use of nondisclosure secret agreements closes down any investigations, by the Irish Police or Irish Government enquiry into sexual rape allegations committed on children, against the Irish Catholic Church, or the Irish Press, for that matter. It’s also denies the Survivor the freedom to tell his or her story, which he or she can never do, the Survivor can’t tell, or write or even tell their own family or friends, that’s part of any secret agreements signed away. The Survivor signs away their rights to free speech. Also the secret agreements has A “Non-Disparagement “ or “Protection of Reputation” clause, that restricts the Survivor from taking any action that negatively impacts the Irish Catholic Church, its reputation, or Church Officials, non disparagement are found in virtually all secret settlement agreements.
Today in Ireland, the Irish Catholic Church has paid out, well over €1 Billion Euros to Survivors of Clerical Rape, and continues to do so, to this day and will do so, way into the future. Tens of Thousands of Irish Survivors, male and female have been paid in this way, in Secret, all signed secret agreements. My High Court Action against Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin is not that he raped me, (he didn’t,) nor sexually assaulted me, (he didn’t,) but that he, Diarmuid Martin, as a very young priest knew of other senior Clerics who did rape me, when I was 15 years old. I offer the proof, it speak’s for itself. I have a letter, minutes of all the meetings held weekly, Visitor’s Log Book and other unimpeachable documentations and something else, truth is on my side. But what is truth, when the Roman Catholic Church claims a monopoly on veracity, that which is true and in accordance with their facts, their reality, and their secret agreements.
No Senior Irish Church Official has ever been charged or arrested, none have ever been in open court in Ireland, it’s time this changed, equality before the law, I believe in. I’m entitled to equal protection of the law. Equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination and so does Diarmuid Martin. Being an Archbishop does give him an advantage before the law, because, sadly in Ireland, having holy titles does this. Proper etiquette still applies, like "the Most Reverend" “Your Grace" “Your Excellency”, used before his name, makes it so, how very grand. For me, hard to believe, I have a Criminal Record, as does tens of thousands of fellow Survivors, both male and female. I have one, since the age of 4, the Irish High Court bestowed it on me. I’m 63 years old now, I have a few Criminal Records to this day, my first crime was my Mother was unmarried, I’m a bastard, her son, I’m now considered a seasoned criminal before the eyes of both the Irish Courts and Irish Society. My Title is not as grand, as the Archbishop’s;- let me see, Felon Owen Felix O’Neill or Criminal Owen Felix O’Neill. Mind you I like the sound of my own title, Felon O’Neill, I like better, “the Most Reverend” would never suit me, to grand a title. I’ll stick with Felon as a reminder of my hapless childhood of my first 18 years.
Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ;- states that "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.” Thus, everyone must be treated equally under the law regardless of race, gender, national origin, colour, ethnicity, religion, disability, or other characteristics, without privilege, discrimination or bias.
The Irish Constitution guarantees all the above, equality, regardless of race;- But the noble Universal Declaration of Human Rights seems not to apply to The Roman Catholic Church, nor The Irish Catholic Church, they claim they are above the Law and are only answerable to God’s Law. The theology of the Roman Catholic Church is based on natural Law, canonical scripture, divine revelation, and sacred tradition, as interpreted authoritatively by the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit reveals God's truth through sacred scripture and sacred tradition and not man’s secular LAWS, which have never applied to them. Owen Felix O’Neill