After several long months of waiting, I am pleased to see that Bishop Terence Brain of Salford has finally issued an "apology" about the horrifying abuse reported as being perpetrated against children by Mgr Thomas Duggan ("Bishop apologises for abuse at Manchester school", The Tablet, 17 March). However, I note that it has taken the diocese and the bishop an extraordinarily long time to make any public announcement about these events.
Fr Barry O'Sullivan has been the Child Protection /Safeguarding Coordinator in the diocese of Salford since 2001 and admits to hearing "stories" about Mgr Duggan, since 1987. So why has the diocese waited until 2011, before acknowledging the pain and distress suffered by those affected?
Philip Gilligan, Rochdale
2 comments:
Archbishop Kelly should be questioned about this and other matters elsewhere in Salford Diocese at the time
He was both at St Bede's and then Bishop of Salford
McCavity's cat comes to mind -not there when accounts are to be settled
The first compliants about Duggan go back to 1950 and continued ever since. So the catholic church has being protecting their system for 61 years up to now.
Remember the Soviets kept their appalling crimes secret for more than 70 years.
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