As a victim of institutionalized in the post war Germany, I now face nearly every day the liars, hypocrites who would like to white wash the past and blame the victims, while holding on to their self-righteous phony self.
The war was over but the Nazi imprint was still alive, and we felt it every day. We were not good worthy at the same time we were called useless eaters, no good for nothing and had to work 6 days a week for 10 hours without pay, – like in slave camps. The only difference – they prayed and we have to pray.

Sure there will be always the ones who take advantage of a situation. But, let me ask: how can they respect anything when nobody respected them?
Let’s put it one more time in a few clear sentences:
it is the adult who abuses the child;
it is the coward who blames victims and
it is society who is blind to humanity.

As long as denial and ignorance triumphs,
a lay can lead and tear down a whole country and destroy a whole generation.
Sieglinde

Its like the way a child who has been SYSTEMICALLY abused and violated – whether psychologically and/or physcially = naturally adapts to his or her normalised way of being in the world. One just adapts to his/her given childhood environment, because one has no choice in the matter.

The reality is, MOST Irish people (in 2009) have yet to recover from their own personal experience of Holy Catholic Ireland, i.e., their own personal legacy of the effects of what ROME did to us – as individuals!

Not too many Irish adults are capable of doing that, i.e., separating themselves from their mad “catholicised” parents, primary guardians – which is understandable – but, thatis what they will have to do, if they are ever going to move on with their lives (i.e., evolve as humans) and leave the Catholic Church behind them!