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♦ www.heraldsun.com.au story here

A former Xavier College student, who has an unresolved historical sexual abuse claim against the Kew school, has criticised repeated requests for him to donate to the school's foundation appeal.

Xavier College asked former student with unresolved sex abuse claim for a donation.
A Xavier College old boy, with a historical sexual abuse claim against the Catholic school,
has hit out at "offensive" requests for donations to the school.

He is one of a number of survivors currently involved in legal battles for settlement of claims relating to alleged abuse at the Kew college.
The man, who does not want to be named, said he complained to the school when the first request to support the Foundation Appeal arrived,
outlining his concerns about the handling of complaints and lack of clarity and disclosure of alleged predators.

He said the request, in the run up to the end of financial year, was inappropriate and showed no regard for the trauma victims continue to suffer.
"It seems odd that they would not cross check the names of the people seeking redress with the list of old collegians," he told the Herald Sun.
The college's rector Fr Chris Middleton initially responded to the man, defending the school's actions and track record.


Chris Middleton SJ
"May I draw your attention to the actions taken by the school in 2016 which received much media coverage.
After consultation with a group of survivors a memorial to victims of sexual abuse at Xavier was erected in the grounds of Xavier.
Its wordings, design and site were determined largely by survivors," Fr Middleton said.
He said the plaque included an explicit apology. It reads:
"Xavier College acknowledges that some students have suffered harm and abuse in their time at our school.
The College acknowledges its past failures in this regard.
To those whose experiences have been painful we offer an apology."

This rock it seems, which is the ONLY thing Xavier College has done, should be more than enough to satisfy all survivors of sex abuse. Why does it look phallic?

Fr Middleton said the Xavier process was praised and seen as a model for schools.
Fr Middleton distanced the school from the matters. He said all matters relating to historical sexual abuse were handled by
the Province of the Society of Jesuits which ran the school before the current school council was instituted.
Further, he said the province funded any compensation.

"I hope that you might see fit to reconsider your position on the foundation.
I would be very happy to respond to any further questions or concerns around this critical area of our response to victims of sexual abuse,"
Fr Middleton wrote in the past week.
But the alleged victim fired back, saying he did not think the school had done enough.

"I find your reply to my concerns and the suggestion that I should now reconsider my position on the foundation to be offensive.
It is offensive because it demonstrates a gross failure on your part to understand the psychology and impact of abuse and the
damage this continues to have on members of the school community," he said.
"My emailed response to the foundation and its request for funds speaks to a failure on the part of the school and
the province in its dealings with sentient human beings who have suffered and continue to suffer from abuse that the school still fails to acknowledge.

I have spoken personally to victims, I know how the school, the province and its lawyers have been and continue to manage claims made against the college."
The man has been on the mailing lists for some time but having spoken to other alleged victims was incensed by what he saw as lack of action on claims.
He said after his first reply, voicing his concerns he would have thought that the school would have checked the list of outstanding claimants before sending a "one size fits all" response.

The man called on the school to name the Jesuits and lay people credibly accused of committing abuse to students at the school.
He said if cases go to court names are revealed but if they are settled they are shrouded in secrecy.
Xavier College in Kew.

The man also claimed that long after the school stopped calling its pool the Stephenson Centre,
after its namesake Fr Paddy Stephenson was accused of sexual abuse, there was ongoing reference to Stephenson.
Fr Stephenson worked at the school for up to 60 years and died in 1990.
After alleged victims came forward, the school decided to rename it the Xavier Sports Centre in 2016.

The man said that long after the centre was renamed there were A-frame signs designating the use of pool lanes, bearing the Stephenson name.
"Is the sports centre still referred to as the 'Stephenson Centre ' by a significant part of the school community?" he said.

The alleged victim also questioned whether another building, named after a man who is accused of offending, was still referred by some lay staff as 'Paedophile's Palace'.
"It is not a symbolic plaque that is required but cultural change and a full confession; a willingness to treat victims with
honesty, openness and fairness. Perhaps, it is time to roll the rock away and consider the truth it hides," the man wrote to Fr Middleton.
Fr Middleton said while he did not believe there was any remnant signage on the Stephenson Centre it might take time for people to stop referring to it by that name.
"The name Stephenson Centre itself is infrequently mentioned at school, but the 'Stevo' is more common."

He said to tell students to stop calling it the "Stevo" Centre would drive it underground.
However, illustrating the difficult situation the current custodians of the school find themselves in,
the school received some backlash from some quarters for dumping the Stephenson name.
"I do not want to for one moment say that the society's handling of complaints has been perfect,
and I understand this. What I would hope is that you would understand that the college is not the body that
oversees or controls the process around historic complaints. The province and its director of professional standards,
and the advisory board of outside experts make these determinations," Fr Middleton said.
The man told the Herald Sun he believed some of the initiatives were tokenism and box ticking.

"They need to reveal the names of all people who have been credibly accused," he said.
The Herald Sun has approached the school and the province over some weeks.
The school has been consumed with the handling of the closure of Kostka Hall and the unveiling of a $35 million vision for its Kew campuses.
While the school's access to outstanding claims is limited, it is understood that there are individuals at the school who have access to the database.
Xavier is also understood to be reviewing the management of mailing lists.

♦ www.heraldsun.com.au story here



The story behind the "Paedophile's Palace".
Peter Walsh is the trustee of the Eldon Hogan Trust which provided $4 million for the Eldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre.
Eldon Hogan is an alleged child sex abuser at Xavier College when he was in charge of the Cadets in the early 1960's.
The Trust via Peter Walsh also provides money for students prizes, the Archives renovation and publication of books about Xavier at al.

When I tried to inform current studemts about this Pricipal Bill Doherty called the police and had me removed from a public street.
I have stated that, like P.J. Stephenson, Eldon Hogan's name must be removed from that fancy building, and refuse any more donations from his Trust
I conveyed this to Tony Nunan, Chair of the College Board and he has not given an opinion about it.

Eldon Hogan         ♦ Eldon Hogan Biography


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Action by Mr. Glen Walls against this website resolved.
Internet Removals Pty Ltd has ceased to represent Glen Walls and has withdrawn its defamation submission to Google.
Search results should be back to normal soon.

♦ Glen Walls Biography and allegations of child sex abuse and his aborted trial for Indecent Assault of students at Xavier College.. He was only fined without conviction for Possession of Chld Pornography.         ♦ Glen Walls own website
With the help of Internet Removals Pty Ltd
Mr. Glen Walls of Melbourne, Victoria has somehow convinced GOOGLE that there is something defamatory about him in this website.
He was a Lecturer at the Swinburne University Department of Communication Design and Digital Media until about 2015.

Many search results that would normally include this website are now censored by GOOGLE. There is no legal action against this website or myself by Glen Walls. These questions arise.

1. Does Internet Removals Pty Ltd simply believe Mr. Walls claim without any legal assessment of it?
2. Does GOOGLE simply believe Internet Removals Pty Ltd that there is defamatory material and not have their lawyers assess it.?
3. How come none of the above have contacted this website.
4. Its very easy to make an allegation of defamation with no truth to it.
   An experienced lawyer would be needed to assess if there was any possible defamation. Even Jack Rush QC and Peter Gordon got it wrong when they threatened to sue for defamation.
5. The normal legal process is to send a Letter of Concern to the alleged defamer. Mr. Walls has not done this because he knows he has no case.
6. Is Mr. Walls in touch with other persons who have been trying hobble and/or kill this website?

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Glen seems to have changed his opinion of himself recently..

Echoing our calls for the Society of Jesus to have complaints handles by an Independant Assessor.
RICHMOND, Virginia - Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond Feb. 17 announced the establishment of the diocese's Independent Reconciliation Program s, which allows victim-survivors of clergy sexual abuse to receive monetary payment from the diocese.

"We believe this to be the best course for our diocese to reach a just reconciliation with our victim-survivors," he said.
The program is independently administered by BrownGreer PLC, a Richmond-based firm that specializes in settlement administration.
♦ Richmond bishop creates reconciliation program for abuse victim-survivors

The devil is in the detail though. SNAP is very critical of the structure.
e.g. - agreement or "release" forever surrenders the right to have the abuse case publically litigated in court.
- gives abuse victims just seven weeks to come forward and accept diocesean terms.
And it looks like damage control since Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is currently investigating the state's two dioceses of Richmond and Arlington for cases of clerical sexual abuse and possible cover-up by Church officials.
♦ Richmond Diocese Pays Abuse Victims to Never Sue Thousands of priests are closeted, and the Vatican’s failure to reckon with their sexuality has created a crisis for Catholicism. We have no reliable figures on just how many priests in the Catholic Church are gay.

The Vatican has conducted many studies on its own clergy but never on this subject.
In the United States, however, where there are 37,000 priests, no independent study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent. The consensus in my own research over the past few months
converged on around 30 to 40 percent among parish priests and considerably more than that — as many as 60 percent or higher — among religious orders like the Franciscans or the Jesuits.


Even Saint Augustine had one particularly intense love affair with another young man.
“For I felt that my soul and his were one soul in two bodies,” he wrote, “and therefore life was a horror to me,
since I did not want to live as a half; and yet I was also afraid to die lest he, whom I had loved so much,
would completely die.” This was not merely a spiritual friendship, Augustine confessed.
“I contaminated the spring of friendship with the dirt of lust and darkened its brightness with the blackness of desire.”

The friendship that grew between Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, for example,
created the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, in the 16th century.
Ignatius sent Francis to evangelize Asia, and their long separation was a source of suffering for both.
Francis once replied to a letter from Ignatius, “Among many other holy words and consolations of your letter,
I read the concluding ones, ‘Entirely yours, without power or possibility of ever forgetting you, Ignatio.’
I read them with tears, and with tears now write them …
You tell me how greatly you desire to see me before this life closes.
God knows the profound impression that those words of great love made on my soul.”
They never saw each other again.

The greatest Catholic theologian of the 19th century, Cardinal John Henry Newman , devoted his personal life to another man,
Ambrose St. John. This does not mean the two had a sexual relationship (although they might have),
but it does suggest that deep same-sex love was still alive in the highest echelons of the Catholic priesthood,
even at the apex of Victorian repression and even in someone about to be celebrated as a saint. When St. John died,
Newman wrote, “I have ever thought no bereavement was equal to that of a husband’s or a wife’s,
but I feel it difficult to believe that any can be greater, or anyone’s sorrow greater, than mine.”
♦ New York magazine


"Let’s pray for Mr J and Cardinal Pell this Easter that they might be assured that justice, truth and healing are near at hand. Let’s speak truth to power.
Let’s enact justice where there is oppression.
Let’s be attentive to the tender moments of healing even in the midst of controversy and division.
Let’s make our way to the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. "

♦ Justice, truth and healing - Frank Brennan SJ
♦ Pell in purgatory If the High Court is right about the evidence on timing, what went wrong during the prosecution and hearings? insidestory.org.au

♦ ABC -George Pell warns against regarding accusations as 'gospel truth' in first TV interview since acquittal

♦ SMH - Pell's jail diaries detail 'petty humiliations', job as roof gardener

♦ ECA - Survivors around the world dismayed by reversal of Cardinal Pell’s guilty verdict

♦ The Guardian - George Pell tells Andrew Bolt the man who testified against him may have been 'used'

♦ NCR - Australian cardinal links corruption to child abuse charges

♦ 'Uncommonly good': The case of Pell's lawyer, Bret Walker. With admiration from Jack Rush QC

♦ Libs say police and prosecutors 'owe community an explanation' on Pell

♦ How the DPP allowed a sliding door to close on the prosecution of Pell

♦ The Pell reckoning: Ray Hadley challenges Andrew Bolt to take it outside

♦ It is not possible to divorce George Pell's acquittal from the Catholic church's history of child abuse. Francis Sullivan

♦ ABC to re-edit and restore George Pell episode of Revelation as News Corp goes on attack

♦ Why the ABC's reporting of the George Pell case wasn't a witch-hunt

♦ This is a mighty triumph for George Pell. Now prepare for a storm of rage from the cardinal's supporters. David Marr


"The only basis for long term healing is truth and the only basis for justice is truth, because justice means truth for all." (Like that one George)

Cardinal George Pell has used an Easter opinion piece to argue "God-fearers" are better able to
deal with evil and suffering than atheists, pointing to his own experience of "13 months in jail for a crime I didn't commit".

Pell was released from prison on Tuesday after Australia's high court quashed five convictions for
child sexual abuse, over allegations he assaulted two choirboys at a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s.

In a piece published in the Australian, Pell wrote that everyone suffered, prompting the questions
"Why is there so much evil and suffering? And why did this happen to me?"

But he said that "a fundamental difference between God-fearers and secularists today is
found in the approach to suffering". Pell used his imprisonment to further the point.

"I have just spent 13 months in jail for a crime I didn't commit, one disappointment after another," he wrote.

"I knew God was with me, but I didn't know what He was up to, although I realised He has left all of us free,"
Pell wrote. "But with every blow it was a consolation to know I could offer it to God for some good purpose
like turning the mass of suffering into spiritual energy."
♦ The Guardian news story

Police investigating George Pell over fresh child sexual abuse allegation – report

News Corp says acquitted cardinal faces new claims over alleged incident in the 1970s when he was a priest in Ballarat
Cardinal George Pell is being investigated by police over a new allegation of child sexual abuse, according to News Corp reports.

Pell was released from jail last Tuesday after the high court acquitted him on five historical child sexual abuse charges.
Pell, 78, spent more than 400 days in jail after being convicted by a jury in December 2018.
The high court acquitted Pell after finding the jury should have held a reasonable doubt as to his guilt.

Pell has given an exclusive interview to his longtime friend and supporter from Sky News, Andrew Bolt, which is due to air on Tuesday night.

On Tuesday the Herald-Sun reported that Pell was being investigated by police over an incident in the 1970s,
when Pell was a priest in the Victorian town of Ballarat. The report did not suggest the allegation was true,
and Pell has always vehemently denied all allegations of sexual abuse against him.
♦ The Guardian report



"The only basis for long term healing is truth and the only basis for justice is truth, because justice means truth for all." (Like that one George)
♦ The Guardian news story
The High Court has overturned the conviction of George Pell on child sex abuse charges.
He will go free today (Tues. 7 April 2020).
The defenders are saying it proves he is innocent which is wrong, the High Court said the jury got it wrong, i.e. a not guilty verdict, not an innocent verdict.

1. Will he be re-tried?
2. Wil there be new charges?
3. Will he go to Rome and not come back this time?
4. He is still a priest and a Cardinal
5. Will the Pope put him out to pasture?
6. A high profile QC must think his money was well spent.
7. Overturning a jury conviction is unusual.
8. Does it mean believing the victim has taken a blow?
9. There are about 10 civil suits coming. These will probably name the Archdiocese/Diocese as defendants also. How they respond will be interesting.
10. Professor Greg "money is crude" Craven of the ACU blames the police and media for trying to stitch up an innocent man.
    After his intemperate outbust on ABC radio he has been forced to resign his position.
11. Predictably, Andrew Bolt and Gerard Henderson echoed the conspiracy theory.
12. Victorian Opposition leader Michael O'Brien (educated at Marcellin (catholic) College) chimes in. Asking Victoria's police, prosecutors and courts to publicly explain the decisions that led to the conviction of Cardinal George Pell.
    ♦ The Age story

Pell is now in a Homebush (Sydney), monastery. Perhaps he should have been stopped and fined in Victoria for non-essential travel.


"Opportunity"
Makes you wonder if the prosecution in the trial did a good enough job of showing Pell had opportunity.
A friend of mine said yesterday a friend of her's was alone with Pell after a Sunday mass.

Allegations. Only one has been tested.
1. at Phillip island
2. at St. Patricks's Cathedral
3 at the Ballarat pool
4. at Swan Hill
5 at the Ballarat orphanage



Fr. Arturo Sosa says

"Don’t think of the coronavirus pandemic as a nightmare,” but rather see it as a wake-up call to “the virus of injustice in the world, a virus that was there before Covid-19,"

The global coronavirus outbreak is "a spiritual and intellectual challenge.” But, he said, “the worst virus is not Covid-19 but the injustice that does not let so very many people live a dignified human life."

"..the ways to make it an occasion to advance toward a more just and humane world."

when we look for God today "we will find him in those who are suffering in the pandemic. God is there."

"We want to live this time as an opportunity."
Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus ♦ www.americamagazine.org

← Reality this way             Fr. Sosa over here somewhere →



Catholic Bishop of Broome, Chris Saunders investigation

Seven News reported on Wednesday that Western Australia police had been investigating claims of sexual misconduct made against the bishop since October 2018.
♦ The Guardian: Catholic Bishop of Broome, Chris Saunders, stands aside

Words from the Top

In the third REVELATION episode Archbishop Mark Coleridge features saying nice things.
Back in February 2019 he said to the Bishops Conference at the Vatican: "We will not go unpunished. In abuse and its concealment, the powerful [of the church] show themselves not men of heaven but men of Earth," he said during the sermon.
"At times, however, we have seen victims and survivors as the enemy, but we have not loved them, we have not blessed them. In that sense, we have been our own worst enemy."

A complaint against Coleridge relates to a 2006 meeting with a Canberra woman who had offered information about child sexual abuse within his then archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
It is alleged he called the woman a "gossip" and acted aggressively towards her.
The woman told the ABC in Feb. 2019 the Archbishop had dismissed her complaint at that time.
The church has engaged a consultant, Kate Halloran of Halloran Morrissey, to examine the matter.
After 14 months nothing has been heard from Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn about the investigation.
♦ www.abc.net.au       ♦ www.theguardian.com

Makes one wonder about the Stephen Elder workplace complaint investigation as well.
20 December 2018 Catholic Education Melbourne and Catholic Education Commission of Victoria executive director Stephen Elder will step down for a "period of rest and renewal". the church hired external consultants Korda Mentha to investigate a workplace complaint.
♦ Story here


REVELATION - three-part series Tuesday 17 March ABC TV

Tonight's episode Thursday 2nd April 2020. Was a searing indictment of George Pell.
The High Court is giving its decision on Pell's appeal next week.
Whichever way it goes, you wonder if new charges will laid.

♦ Two new accusers say George Pell abused them when they were boys in the 1970s
As a boy growing up in a Ballarat orphanage in the 1970s, Bernie told the ABC's Revelation program that he was abused on multiple occasions by George Pell, then a priest in the diocese of Ballarat.

REVELATION was very good tonight (Tuesday 31 March)
They still all lie, deny, cover-up and try to excuse themselves.

"Abuse was not a failure of the system. It was the system."
Echoing Marilyn Warren: "there was a serious pattern of deviant criminal behaviour being perpetrated across the Society (of Jesus)"
From Tuesday 17 March on the ABC, award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson presents Revelation, a ground-breaking documentary series on the criminal priests and brothers of the Catholic Church, their crimes laid bare for the first time in their own words.
Revelation is a three-part documentary series airing weekly from Tuesday 17 March at 8:30pm on ABC TV and iview.
♦ ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson on making Revelation and coming face to face
with two of the Catholic Church’s worst serial paedophiles

The Society of Jesus Australia STILL holds the position that it is up to the victim and the police to seek the truth and justice.
This quote from Archbishop Mark Coleridge
"At times, however, we have seen victims and survivors as the enemy, ..."
sums up the Society of Jesus' response to claims, except it is "At all times.."

What has the Society of Jesus done about these living alleged offenders?
Brenton Lewis ex-s.j., Richard Galbraith ex-s.j, Brian O’Reilly , Glen Terrence Walls, Patrick O'Sullivan s.j., James McInerny s.j. , Paul McMahon ex-s.j., Boarder Master A., Geoff Pearson ex-s.j., Peter Meyer.
These are the ones not under police investigation.