Keywords: Geoffrey Robinson
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RELIGION
- Ailsa Piper
- 07 August 2013
18 Comments
His casual tone didn't seem to fit the words I was translating from Spanish. I questioned him. Eight? Yes, eight. Every night? Every night. Finally I could no longer deny what I was hearing. Decades earlier, my amigo's then eight-year-old brother had been abused by a religious man of the cloth. My amigo was here walking the Camino Mozárabe in memory of that brother, who eventually had committed suicide.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 25 July 2013
26 Comments
Robinson's recent book on the culture of the Catholic Church critiques the factors that have contributed to clerical sexual abuse of children. Robinson desires institutional changes, yet institutional changes are insufficient unless relationships and attitudes change. In this there is a happy conjunction between Robinson's project and the way of proceeding of Pope Francis.
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RELIGION
- Geoffrey Robinson
- 23 November 2012
34 Comments
In 52 years as a priest I have never had to face a conflict situation over the seal of the confessional and sexual abuse. I pray that I never face a situation where I was convinced an innocent minor would be abused unless I broke the seal. I would find it impossibly difficult to live with that abuse on my conscience.
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RELIGION
- Geoffrey Robinson
- 16 November 2012
70 Comments
There has been a bland assertion in places that obligatory celibacy has not in any way been a cause of abuse. Few people believe this assertion, and personally I find it impossible to deny that it has been a significant contributing factor. Unless obligatory celibacy is put on the table for discussion, the question will not go away.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 23 March 2011
32 Comments
I received a letter from a former student. Ten years ago, he had suddenly vanished without warning or further communication. Now he was about to reveal the reasons for his disappearance. It was the sort of story I had heard often before.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 11 October 2010
26 Comments
Robertson may be a celebrity QC, but historian he is certainly not. He touts the notion that the Vatican is not a real state and that as a consequence Benedict XVI should not be granted immunity from prosecution for his alleged responsibility in covering up clerical sexual abuse.
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RELIGION
- Shane Woods and Peter Hai
- 04 May 2010
19 Comments
What do Hans Kung, Geoffrey Robinson, and Pat Power have in common?
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 April 2010
19 Comments
In his Easter
message, Cardinal George Pell made an oblique reference to sexual abuse in the Church. While most Australians dismiss such utterances as too
little too late, it is possible to look at them optimistically when
set against actions of the recent past.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 January 2010
18 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be. March 2009
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
4 Comments
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 March 2009
42 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 May 2008
31 Comments
The Australian Catholic Bishops argue that Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book on sexual abuse questions the authority of the Church to teach definitively. But Bishop Robinson is right when he calls for reflection on the factors within Catholic culture that foster abuse.
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