'Very early,in my priestly ministry, the scandal of “Fr” Brendan Smyth became public and the havoc he wrought in children’s lives.
I began to speak out and challenge the Catholic Church on its treatment, outreach
and response, to victims of clerical sexual abuse.
Initially, I did not identify myself as a victim of this evil; but I was a victim and I was suffering terribly since childhood.
I was abused by a babysitter when I was four, five years old. Later, I was
'This is SDLP MLA,Sinead McLaughlin, saying that pro life people need to “get a life”. Her contempt for the electorate is evident and is by no means confined to her.
This is the attitude that prevails among much of the SDLP as
currently constituted. As McLaughlin boasts, the SDLP Youth is strongly pro abortion-“choice”.
There needs to be a very definite rejection, by the entire pro life constituency, on May 5th, of the likes of Sinead McLaughlin, also of the SDLP and other pro-
