20-07-2022, 01:56 PM
Now reading A history of loneliness, John Boyne. About the disintegration of the hold Catholicism has had on Ireland, & the damage done by predator priests.
Very well written if a little harrowing in places when it deals with the widespread misogyny & the child abuse.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/o...lacerating.
" Ireland is rotten. Rotten to the core. I'm sorry, but you priests destroyed it." These words are spoken by a young man who was sexually attacked in his childhood by an Irish priest, a friend of the family. They go to the heart of this novel's passionate denunciation of the role played by the Catholic church in the scandal over child abuse by the clergy. It is a study of the corrupting effects of power in an Ireland that came close to being a theocracy. Sexuality was strictly governed; contraception, abortion and divorce were forbidden; and yet the abuse of children went unpunished and was deliberately concealed by the church hierarchy for fear of damage to the institution."
Very well written if a little harrowing in places when it deals with the widespread misogyny & the child abuse.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/o...lacerating.
" Ireland is rotten. Rotten to the core. I'm sorry, but you priests destroyed it." These words are spoken by a young man who was sexually attacked in his childhood by an Irish priest, a friend of the family. They go to the heart of this novel's passionate denunciation of the role played by the Catholic church in the scandal over child abuse by the clergy. It is a study of the corrupting effects of power in an Ireland that came close to being a theocracy. Sexuality was strictly governed; contraception, abortion and divorce were forbidden; and yet the abuse of children went unpunished and was deliberately concealed by the church hierarchy for fear of damage to the institution."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)