Ongoing Scourge Of Rape Scandals Rock The Australian Catholic Church

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The early church deprived clergy of their positions for crimes such as these. The same should be true today. If certain marriages can be declared null and void for a variety of reasons. It would seem especially true to declare the ordinations of clergy for such deplorable crimes as these to be null and void.

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mercytruth said:
The early church deprived clergy of their positions for crimes such as these. The same should be true today. If certain marriages can be declared null and void for a variety of reasons. It would seem especially true to declare the ordinations of clergy for such deplorable crimes as these to be null and void.

God have mercy on us all
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I could not agree with you more.
 
My dh has advanced the notion that Ms. Gillard announced the Royal Commission to take the heat off of herself in this scandal. It is the timing, you see. The abuse allegations have been known for some time. The story about the 26 institutions in WA was published in May, updated early June.
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When it was revealed that one of the biggest trade union rorts in Australian history had been perpetrated by her boyfriend using her legal advice in the early 1990s, her response was the consternation of innocence. She had been naive, she had been deceived, she had been betrayed.
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Gillard insisted that while she, as a salaried partner at Slater & Gordon, had helped establish the slush fund from which her boyfriend and senior Australian Workers Union official Bruce Wilson had filched more than $400,000, and while she had helped his crony buy a Fitzroy unit with some of those funds, she knew nothing about the racket until it was exposed by others in the AWU.
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Gillard’s account of union slush fund rejected
A KEY former union accountant has undermined Julia Gillard’s depiction of a slush fund she helped set up in 1992 as being a legitimate association needed to help finance union election campaigns.
After it was revealed in 1995 that the association had been corrupted by Ms Gillard’s boyfriend and senior AWU official Bruce Wilson, she told senior partners at Slater & Gordon: ‘‘Every union has what it refers to as an election fund, a slush fund … so that they can finance their next election campaign.’’
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Mr Frearson - an ally of Bruce Wilson who joined the state administrative team when he took control of the branch in 1991 - said the union already had a dedicated election fund in operation when the Workplace Reform Association was incorporated in June 1992.
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Linda_Marie said:
My dh has advanced the notion that Ms. Gillard announced the Royal Commission to take the heat off of herself in this scandal. It is the timing, you see. The abuse allegations have been known for some time. The story about the 26 institutions in WA was published in May, updated early June.
Questions of judgment

Gillard’s account of union slush fund rejected
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I could not agree with you more!!!
All that has come out to prompt this Royal commission to date is Peter Fox’s revelation wich amounted to, that in a case that he was investigating about a crime committed in 1985 he was thwarted by his superiors and the Church from running his full investigation. And that the independent overseer of the Victorian Catholic Churches sexual abuse protocol revealed that since 1995 there has been 3 incidents in wich the protocol has not been correctly followed.
Thats it! not exactly ground shattering stuff. Yet the media has seen fit to report this by comparing the Church to an organised crime syndicate running pedaphile rings!!
One can’t help but think that some of this is polliticaly motivated considering the opposition leadrer makes no secret of the fact that he is a committed Catholic.
 
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