I have just been watching the film by Jason Berry of Marciel Maciel, a Mexican Catholic priest, who formed the religious orders of Legion Of Christ for men and Regnum Christie for women. Both orders have massive support in the Americas and since the 1940s Maciel had been fund raising and building seminaries there for fledgling priests. Numbering among his… (more…)
In the summer of 1963 after my short interview with Monsignor Duggan, Rector of St. Bede’s College and supreme factotum of life as we knew it, when he consigned me to the scrapheap of infidels, I was working for Jim Connor converting two large Victorian houses on Laindon Road in Manchester into a home for wayward girls as they so… (more…)
Yesterday I watched an American documentary about clerical child abuse in California between 1970 and 1990. It was the most distressing 120 minutes I have ever watched. It was on the channel More 4, last Tuesday night. We recorded it and have it saved and I understand that you cannot pull it off the internet but you can certainly buy… (more…)
Search as I might, I cannot find any reference to Monsignor Thomas Duggan, Rector of St. Bede’s College in Manchester, from the early 1950s until the late 1960s. As I have said in my blog on 31 March 2010, a blog I dedicated to this ” honourable” man, he seems to have been airbrushed from history. Google in Monsignor Thomas… (more…)