Cempaka Belanda: Extent of church sexual abuse revealed

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, March 15, 2010

Extent of church sexual abuse revealed

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 15 March 2010 - 4:36pm, by Robert Chesal

(Photo: St Agatha)

Detailed information in the possession of Radio Netherlands Worldwide and NRC Handelsblad shows that priests, monks and nuns were involved in sexual and physical abuse at Catholic boarding schools and seminaries across the Netherlands. RNW has also received reactions from emigrants who say they were abused at Dutch Catholic institutions.

Our revelations at the end of February about child sex abuse at the Don Rua monastery in ’s-Heerenberg triggered reactions from 128 former students of various Catholic boarding schools and seminaries. A first insight into the nature and scope of the abuse on a national level can be distilled from their reactions.

A total of 137 priests, monks and nuns are accused of abuse. The alleged culprits were, or are, members of 32 different orders and congregations. Most of them worked at boarding schools and seminaries in the provinces of North Brabant, Limburg and Gelderland. A small number were active in parishes or in youth work.

Distrust

Interviews conducted with a large number of victims show that the abuse was systematically covered up. As a result of recent media attention, the Dutch bishops have requested former minister Wim Deetman to investigate abuse in the Dutch Catholic church.

Many victims say they have little trust in Hulp en Recht (Assistance and Justice) the church commission charged with investigating abuse cases and providing support to the victims. Some of the 450 people who submitted their complaints to Hulp en Recht say they subsequently mailed their stories to either RNW or NRC Handelsblad because they believed Hulp en Recht would not take adequate action.

Peak period

The inventory drawn up by RNW shows that the abuse peaked during the 1950s (43 reports) and the 1960s (62 reports). The substantially lower number of reports pertaining to earlier years may be due to the fact that many victims have since died. The number of reports decreases rapidly after 1960, probably because many boarding schools were then closed.

Abuse led to emigration

Among the victims are nine Dutch emigrants. So far, RNW has received reports from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany(3), Spain, Sri Lanka and Uganda.

One of the emigrants says the abuse is what made him leave the Netherlands. Richard Wolterman from Australia attended the Hageveld boarding school and seminary in Heemstede from 1968 until 1974. The institution fell under the responsibility of the Haarlem-Amsterdam diocese. Mr Wolterman complains about "inappropriate sexual touching and boundary crossings" by at least three staff members. And he says he was not the only one. "A secretive culture of fear" held sway there, he says. "The experience of abuse in such an isolated setting makes you shut up and numb to your own pain. I have not been able to communicate with people without fear up unto age 32 (...) Leaving Holland was one of my ways of coping I guess."

Gerard Weel, a former teacher of Dutch and Religious Education at Hageveld, finds it impossible to relate to this description. “In that period, we tried to deal with sexuality in a more natural way. No cramped attitudes or secretiveness. There was a lay teacher of French who fell in love with one of the boys and they later went to live together, but the affair did not start until the boy turned 17 or 18. It was no secret”.

Hotbeds

One of the schools often mentioned in the reports is the Canisius College in Nijmegen, then run by Jesuits. The order has also been discredited in Germany because of abuse at the Canisius grammar school in Berlin. The Saint Louis institution in Amersfoort, run by the Brothers of Maastricht is mentioned by six former students.

However, the majority of abuse reports involve the Don Bosco Salesians and the Brothers of Love. The large number of reports can be partly explained by the recent publicity regarding the orders’ boarding schools in ‘s-Heerenberg and Eindhoven.

Internal investigation

Former director P (under Dutch law press reports can only mention a suspect’s initials), who was responsible for the supervision of teacher staff in 's-Heerenberg, is identified by four former students as one of the abusers. The abuse reports from 's-Heerenberg cover a ten-year period. So far, two Salesians have confessed to the abuse in the media. One priest was sent to a convent in Babberich after an internal investigation conducted in ‘s-Heerenberg in 1967.

Monks were also dismissed from the Eikenburg in Eindhoven. Two were admitted to a psychiatric institution, and a third was transferred. Despite the serious nature of the facts, the police were never alerted.

Parents guilty of complicity

The large number of reactions received by RNW shows that most of these incidents were covered up. In many cases, parents were complicit in these cover-ups because they feared a scandal. Priests and monks where held in high regard, and students who reported abuse were often punished, either at home or at the boarding school. Frank, a former student, ran away from a boarding school 13 times. “After the last time my father took me back saying that if I ran away one more time, I would never be allowed to come home again”.

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