Comments on: Listening to survivor testimonies painful https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/02/01/listening-to-survivor-testimonies-painful/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: Ria https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/02/01/listening-to-survivor-testimonies-painful/#comment-65204 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:17:38 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=22628#comment-65204 “Dr Figueroa said there is a need to train priests and religious, as well as lay people, on how to respond to traumatised victims.”
Great practical idea and there will be resources and experts on trauma who can help the Catholic church in this.

]]> By: Martha Mapasure https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/02/01/listening-to-survivor-testimonies-painful/#comment-65119 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:37:10 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=22628#comment-65119 Thank you for addressing this, important for healing.

]]> By: Brian Cherrie https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/02/01/listening-to-survivor-testimonies-painful/#comment-64695 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:23:55 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=22628#comment-64695 It is painful to listen to survivors explain how they were raped as children by clergy, how disgusting, and the only way we will ever stop it is to make them pay. When you have such large wealthy global religions as the . Catholic Church, Salvation Army, Anglican, etc, etc churches responsible for such actions is absolutely disgraceful. The cover-ups, the deceitfulness etc, etc it begs to be believed and it has been happening for decades. I sometimes worry that it is that entrenched into these not for profit organizations that I wonder if they can ever stop it. Why are these organizations not stripped of their charity status and refused more government funding? Why are these organizations still permitted to exist, pretending to be caring for the communities which support them? How can people and govrnments turn a blind eye to what has happened. It smacks in the face of what christianity is supposed to represent.

army, Anglica etc, etc churches

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