Comments on: No Child’s Behind Left – Nova Scotia Bishop Lahey’s Alleged Child Abuse http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/16/no-childs-behind-left/ Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:22:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Travis Martin http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/16/no-childs-behind-left/comment-page-1/#comment-3558 Travis Martin Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:43:08 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1016#comment-3558 Hi Paula, thanks for the name change. When I lived there I always just called it St. Margie's and should have checked. Your ammendment is appreciated. I am glad that someone with such a different world view and one in particular so close to my crtique can see to the heart of the matter. As for Socratic method - I think only lawyers and first year philosophy profs use that - to everyone else it just raises questions and challenges that have to be answered. If you do plan to psread this far and wide, feel free, but please make the needed ammendment. Cheers Hi Paula, thanks for the name change. When I lived there I always just called it St. Margie’s and should have checked. Your ammendment is appreciated. I am glad that someone with such a different world view and one in particular so close to my crtique can see to the heart of the matter. As for Socratic method – I think only lawyers and first year philosophy profs use that – to everyone else it just raises questions and challenges that have to be answered. If you do plan to psread this far and wide, feel free, but please make the needed ammendment.

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]]> By: Paula MacQuarrie http://informedvote.ca/2009/10/16/no-childs-behind-left/comment-page-1/#comment-3552 Paula MacQuarrie Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:40:02 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1016#comment-3552 Quite a statement this letter is! Thank you. I will share this article far and wide. I too am amazed by the people who do not speak. This says more about a kind of fearful dazzlement we have about religion and our reticence to own up to the fact that we know so little about it. It also speaks to the political side on the part of the hierarchy and those who jump on its bandwagon. We need to remind them that they are not as inconspicuous as they think they are. You have that x-ray vision!. Why isn't it blatantly obvious to this large body of "Catholics" that the effect of this tragedy of abuse is often death by suicide, and the other alternative, living in isolation with a confusion of shame, helplessness, hopelessness that approaches suicide daily. Would any mother or father want this for their dear sons or daughters? It needs to be rooted out, not just prayed for. We are so used to relying on church advice (albeit it more difficuly to find these days with the staff shortage), that we are afraid to speak up for ourselves, even when our own are hurt. We are happy enough to have a trancendent moment each Sunday and forget that this trancendent moment should change us on a continuous basis in how we deal with what is happening in "our" world. Have we become mere puppets in the hands of a hierarchy of post-menopausal men, who only raise their angry heads when we dare to have dialogue that the magesterium (teaching body of the church) forbids. Did the hierarchy ever hear of the Socratic method of dialogue? Paula MacQuarrie Member of CNWE (Catholic Network for Women's Equality) Fredericton, New Brunswick The hospital is St. Martha' Regional Hospital, not Margaret ... a minor thing, just for your information. Quite a statement this letter is! Thank you. I will share this article far and wide. I too am amazed by the people who do not speak. This says more about a kind of fearful dazzlement we have about religion and our reticence to own up to the fact that we know so little about it. It also speaks to the political side on the part of the hierarchy and those who jump on its bandwagon. We need to remind them that they are not as inconspicuous as they think they are. You have that x-ray vision!. Why isn’t it blatantly obvious to this large body of “Catholics” that the effect of this tragedy of abuse is often death by suicide, and the other alternative, living in isolation with a confusion of shame, helplessness, hopelessness that approaches suicide daily. Would any mother or father want this for their dear sons or daughters? It needs to be rooted out, not just prayed for. We are so used to relying on church advice (albeit it more difficuly to find these days with the staff shortage), that we are afraid to speak up for ourselves, even when our own are hurt. We are happy enough to have a trancendent moment each Sunday and forget that this trancendent moment should change us on a continuous basis in how we deal with what is happening in “our” world. Have we become mere puppets in the hands of a hierarchy of post-menopausal men, who only raise their angry heads when we dare to have dialogue that the magesterium (teaching body of the church) forbids. Did the hierarchy ever hear of the Socratic method of dialogue?

Paula MacQuarrie
Member of CNWE (Catholic Network for Women’s Equality)
Fredericton, New Brunswick

The hospital is St. Martha’ Regional Hospital, not Margaret … a minor thing, just for your information.

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