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3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
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Tuesday 20 May 2014

Former Bishop Defends Sisters of Nazareth's Shocking Child Abuse

A former Catholic bishop has said nuns at the centre of the UK's largest ever public inquiry into institutional child abuse were taken for granted. That's hardly an excuse for their dreadful, hateful treatment of the children in their care.

Edward Daly, 81, expressed admiration for a religious order caring for thousands of troubled children amid the violence and "abominable" poverty of 1960s Northern Ireland.

The Sisters of Nazareth have apologised for "shocking and harrowing" physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect at two residential homes in Londonderry.

Bishop Daly said in 36 years of ministry he only heard one complaint, from a woman separated from her brothers as a child and sent from a home to Australia, but had no involvement in running the centres.
Sister Brenda McCall from the Sisters of
Nazareth arrives at Banbridge Courthouse

He said: "They were doing work that needed to be done, that nobody else was doing." And all for the glory of G... wait a minute.

The treatment of young people, orphaned or taken away from their unmarried mothers, in houses run by nuns, brothers or the state is a key concern of an investigation chaired by retired High Court judge Sir Anthony Hart which is being held in Banbridge, Co Down, and was ordered by the powersharing devolved government at Stormont.

It is considering cases between 1922, the foundation of Northern Ireland, and 1995.

Bishop Daly was still a priest when he famously intervened while British paratroopers shot dead 13 innocent civil rights protesters in Derry on Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He waved his bloodied white handkerchief as he tried to lead one victim to safety. The photograph became one of the images of the conflict.

Two years later he was ordained bishop and was to remain so for the rest of the Troubles.

He told the inquiry, Derry, around the time of the outbreak of the IRA and loyalist conflict in 1969, amid Catholic protests for civil rights like one man one vote, was a place of great suffering.

"It was a culture shock, I had never before experienced poverty of that nature, housing was such abominable standard, overcrowding and all the attendant things that went with that, it was quite shocking frankly."

The former bishop said there was violence every day except Christmas Day for 18 months.

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