The Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray, has resigned following the release of the Dublin Archdiocese report which we mentioned at the end of last month. That document spanned almost three decades of abuse and cover-up.
As ever, read about it at the BBC here with all other information linked in the right hand box next to the article.
– CBG
6 Lies Your Depression Wants You to Believe (& How to Not Fall Into the Trap) tags: CA Depression Sexual assault against males necessitates attention tags: CA ChildAbuse 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs tags: CA Depression The Sexual Abuse of Boys Is Not About “Getting Lucky” and We Need to Stop Promoting This…
If you spend any time at all thinking about children and the criminal justice system, this is not a huge surprise. “A new report on the history of safeguarding children detained for criminal offences in the UK has concluded that it is impossible to remove the potential for abuse in secure institutions, and that the…
The Deputy Children’s Minister has presented the sections of the report guaranteed to give her maximum exposure in the newspaper backing her campaign. The full report is due in September. We’ll comment further on this whenever the presentations are shown on the BBC’s Parliament channel to get the full context; for now the Daily Mail’s take on…
Friends mourn Steve Austin, former pastor and author who wrote about suicide and mental health
– I didn’t know Steve the way others did. I followed him on social media, read and shared some of his stuff, and will miss having that voice out here.
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Sharon says a lot of really helpful things in the article below, but one that really struck a chord with me and my experience was in this paragraph: There is no right way to deal with a toxic family member. Only you can decide how much contact is right for you. And you will…
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