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CLIFTON DIOCESE..Key members of diocesn safeguarding (3) have just resigned from the diocesan board. The account in the Capsule is rather confused but the problem seems to have been that friends of a certain priest who was convicted of downloading porn and later accused but not convicted of breaching his sex offenses order, these friends had complained that the safeguarding officer had treated the priest unfairly and the first diocesan procedure found against the safeguarding officer but on appeal a second enquiry found in favour of the officer. She resigned and two other members resigned saying the diocese itself had not supported the safeguarding officer ! This is the problem as ever, how does a diocesan office support both the safeguarding officer AND the priest at the same time? One realises that full investigation has to be made into accusations but I have know several cases where clearly innocent priests, cleared by the police, have been kept waiting for months afterwards....and the longer this goes on for an innocent priest the more difficult it is for him to resume ministry. Both Bishop Ward and Fr Michael Hollings died shortly after being cleared and returning to ministry. Surely the procedures needed could be speeded up.? Furthermore, does downloading porn mean that the person downloading it is a real sex offender ? Hardly the same as a real abuse of another ?
DEATHS Fr Gregory Winterton of the Oratory at Birmingham died recently and spent most of his priestly life promoting the cause of Blessed Newman and at a great age had the satifacting of meeting the Holy Father when he visited the Oratory last year. Several tributes have already appeared.
The Capsule also reports the death ofo Margaret Feeny who spent a large part of her life in helping agencies involved in helping the hungry and in particular work for the Africa Centre. When she called a meeting in 1962 of existing agencies, the gathering led to the start of CAFOD. Earlier she had been a member of the Sword of the Spirit movement during the war and was connected with Catholic Institute of International Affairs which she handed over to Mildred Neville. I just wondered if I had smelt a little rat, may be nothing, but both CIIR and CAFOD have certain trends which traditional Catholics do not like...but the Capsule does ??? The CIIR is now called PROGRESSIO and I know nothing at all about it. Could someone enlighten me please ?