Part two of Mount Cashel series, new motocross among stories in The Weekend Telegram Print edition

saelcove

- July 22, 2012 at 11:33:46

When money is involved they come out of the woodwork

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Enough Already

- July 21, 2012 at 14:02:42

Give it a rest. Let the people who were involved in Mount Cashel, both the survivors of abuse and the thousands that lived there without anything wrong happening, move on. Stop opening the wounds.

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  patrick williams

  - July 21, 2012 at 18:36:18

  The person writing give it a rest might change his attitude if he were to read The Irish Gulag an expose of the Catholic church in Ireland and almost one hundred years of abuse of children boys and girls, priests, nuns and Christian brothers. Or the abuses in Western Australia or O'Dea and Briscoe orphanages in Washington State we are talking about tens of thousands not just a few hundred. The same goes for an earlier comment by a Mr. McGrath it is only by continually exposing these brutes that we are able to out more of the priests still carrying on with this evil in Newfoundland. I'm no longer a practising catholic but I do not wish others not to celebrate their belief just that if someone uses that pulpit for abusing others then that person should be exposed and if the hierarchy within the church itself protects these people then they should be exposed as criminals right up to and including cardinals and the pope.If he is God's representative here on earth and has the ear of God would you not expect him to know what goes on in his business much like Penn State and assistant coach now convicted sexual child abuser Sandusky.

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  Kevin Williams

  - July 22, 2012 at 17:38:03

  Ever since the release July 12 of the Freeh report, which detailed the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse of young boys, the investigations of those crimes and the actions and inactions of various members of the hierarchy at Penn State relating to those crimes, there has been great outrage expressed in the various media as there should be. As I read the comments from the columnists and in the letters to the editor and listen to the TV anchors and the talk radio, however, I find myself wondering: Where is the outrage toward the Catholic Church for actions very similar to those that occurred at Penn State? Why aren't those bishops, archbishops and other leaders in the church who facilitated ongoing assaults on children by simply transferring known pedophile priests from one parish to another being punished? What is the difference between what those church leaders did and what the three Penn State administrators and coach Joe Paterno did? It is time for the authorities to initiate serious investigative and, where applicable, appropriate legal action against the leadership people in the Catholic Church who are responsible for the horrific crimes that have been committed against so many young people. A little of that public outrage that was unleashed in the Penn State/Sandusky affair might help get the authorities moving on this one as well. This is a problem world wide and will only be stopped or reduced when the hierarchy of the Church does jail time.

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  Brian O'Grady - Enough Already II

  - July 23, 2012 at 23:23:09

  Is "Enough Already" playing with a full deck, I don't think he or she is. The survivors of that awful period in Nfld. history, don't want us, as fellow Nflders, to forget that horrific time in their lives. The wounds will never be healed, don't you get it those wounds have left a scar on them that will be with them until they die. I still feel for those guys(post Hughes inquiry) who used to sit by me in class at St. Pius X in the early 1970's not knowing the torment sexually and mentally they were going through. For God's sake I hope all Nflders never forget these atrocities.