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(Vatican Radio) This summer the issue of disability will be firmly under the spotlight with major events taking place celebrating the value of disabled people.The eyes of the world will be on Paralympic athletes when they take part in the Paralympic games in Brazil in August and the Vatican ‘s Pontifical Council for Culture along with the Kairos Forum will be sponsoring an academic symposium and a conference regarding disability, theology and culture entitled, Living Fully 2016.So with attention focusing on this important issue, how far have we come and what strides still need to be made regarding acceptance and accessibility for people with disabilities?Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane put that question to Cristina Gangemi, disability advisor to the Bishops Conference of England and Wales and the Director of the Kairos Forum which seeks to highlight and respond to the spiritual and religious needs of people with disabilities.Listen to the interview She says, &...
(Vatican Radio) This summer the issue of disability will be firmly under the spotlight with major events taking place celebrating the value of disabled people.
The eyes of the world will be on Paralympic athletes when they take part in the Paralympic games in Brazil in August and the Vatican ‘s Pontifical Council for Culture along with the Kairos Forum will be sponsoring an academic symposium and a conference regarding disability, theology and culture entitled, Living Fully 2016.
So with attention focusing on this important issue, how far have we come and what strides still need to be made regarding acceptance and accessibility for people with disabilities?
Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane put that question to Cristina Gangemi, disability advisor to the Bishops Conference of England and Wales and the Director of the Kairos Forum which seeks to highlight and respond to the spiritual and religious needs of people with disabilities.
Listen to the interview
She says, “there is definitely, definitely much more being done within the realm of disability and faith.” Cristina adds that with her experience as a disability advisor she has seen “an incredible growth in knowledge”, especially in her own diocese of Southwark in England.
“…I think that where we are is that we’re on that journey, she says, but certainly it’s a more exciting time now than ever before and we either take up the mandate and the call we’ve been given or leave it to another generation.”
Every four years after intense training athletes put that hard work to the test at the Olympic and Paralympic games. In August Brazil will take centre stage when it plays host to the world’s greatest sporting event.
In 2012 London hosted the Paralympic games which were the largest Paralympics ever. According to Cristina, “there was an incredible legacy in the UK from the Paralympic games and the issue of disability was highlighted.”
But she also adds, that there is a real opportunity for Brazil as a Catholic country to show that the Paralympics embodies, “everything the Catholic Church teaches about the dignity of the human person .”
Living Fully 2016; Embracing the gifts of all people, especially people who live with Disability runs from the 23rd to the 26th June.
Dublin, Ireland, May 5, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Salvatorians have offered their “deepest apology” for failing to stop a priest who sexually abused children in Ireland until his 2004 arrest.“The Salvatorians express their deep sorrow for the prolific abuse carried on by a particular member of our Order in Ireland and elsewhere over a long number of years,” Father Alex McAllister S.D.S., provincial superior of the Salvatorians’ British Pro-Province, said May 3.“We acknowledge that the response of the provincial superior at the time was completely inadequate and that it was a clear failure of the duty of our order to protect children.”The case of a priest, called only “Father A,” was described in a child safety audit of religious congregations by Ireland’s National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.He was ordained in the 1950s. His supervisors were warned about him in 2002, but he continued t...
Dublin, Ireland, May 5, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Salvatorians have offered their “deepest apology” for failing to stop a priest who sexually abused children in Ireland until his 2004 arrest.
“The Salvatorians express their deep sorrow for the prolific abuse carried on by a particular member of our Order in Ireland and elsewhere over a long number of years,” Father Alex McAllister S.D.S., provincial superior of the Salvatorians’ British Pro-Province, said May 3.
“We acknowledge that the response of the provincial superior at the time was completely inadequate and that it was a clear failure of the duty of our order to protect children.”
The case of a priest, called only “Father A,” was described in a child safety audit of religious congregations by Ireland’s National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
He was ordained in the 1950s. His supervisors were warned about him in 2002, but he continued to abuse children up until 2004, when he was arrested.
The unnamed priest later admitted that he sexually abused more than 100 children between the ages of six and nine, most of them girls. The priest was convicted in 2007 for child abuse over a 25-year period, the Belfast Telegraph reports. He was released from prison in 2009 and died later that year in the U.K.
He had served as a teacher in the U.K., a parish priest in Australia and Dublin, and as a hospital chaplain in Rome. There are not now any complaints against him concerning his roles outside of Ireland.
The Salvatorian order, formally known as the Society of the Divine Saviour, no longer ministers in Ireland.
“We express our deepest apology to anyone who was harmed by Father A and urge those who have not yet come forward to do so,” Fr. McAllister said. “We undertake to give anyone who was harmed a sympathetic hearing and to provide as much support as possible.”
The national safeguarding board said the order still has a significant responsibility “to ensure that the devastation perpetrated on his victims by Fr. A is conscientiously, compassionately and effectively addressed.”
Fr. McAllister said the Salvatorians were “extremely regretful” that the then-provincial superior did not place the priest under supervision when he learned of the abuse. Rather, the superior transferred him to a desk job and then permitted him limited ministry.
A Salvatorian provincial concealed the true reason for the transfer from Cardinal Desmond Connell, the then-Archbishop of Dublin, RTE News reports.
The offending priest’s arrest in 2004 caused the order’s safeguarding procedures to begin. The province said it then closely cooperated with the Archdiocese of Dublin to ensure the priest received “the necessary treatment and the appropriate supervision” until his death.
Fr. McAllister said the province began an inquiry into its “extremely poor decisions” and has made changes “to ensure that nothing like this can happen again.”
“As an order we assure the public that we have an extremely high commitment to the safeguarding of children and intend to do everything possible to meet our responsibilities in this area,” the current provincial superior said.
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