Prestige of clergy helped hide abuse

Cornwall Standard Freeholder Friday, August 31, 2007 – 08:00 Terri Saunders Local News – The prestige bestowed upon a priest once contributed to a culture of silence surrounding child sexual abuse, the Cornwall Public Inquiry heard Thursday. Rev. Tom Doyle … Continue reading

Commentary on From Pain to Hope

Our tongue-tied bishops’ politically-correct response to clerical homosexual predators [The Orator Vol. 10 No. 1, Jan-March 1999] In the late 1980s, a spate of sexual abuse charges was levelled against a number of Newfoundland’s diocesan clergy; these were accompanied by … Continue reading

Commentary on From Pain to Hope

Our tongue-tied bishops’ politically-correct response to clerical homosexual predators The Orator Vol. 10 No. 1, Jan-March 1999 In the late 1980s, a spate of sexual abuse charges was levelled against a number of Newfoundland’s diocesan clergy; these were accompanied by … Continue reading

Thibault: Father Claude Thibault

Claude Thibault Claude G. Thibault Father Claude Thibault is a Roman Catholic priest ordained in 1986 for the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall.  Father Thibault was sexually abused in the late 70s by Father Gilles Deslaurier.    Born 09 June 1960 in Cornwall, … Continue reading

The Diocese

Under construction The Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall _______________________________________ March 2017:  Should the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall merge with the  Archdiocese of Ottawa? October 2017:  Alexandria-Cornwall Diocese to merge with Ottawa Archdiocese? __________________________________ SOUTHDOWN  (Viewed by many as Canada’s prima ‘treatment’ … Continue reading