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[Fight for Human Rights] Activist Spotlight: Justice For Magdalene Survivors: We hope to bring a loud global voice and pressure to bear on Prime Minister Cowen (and members of his government) to stop waffling and provide clear leadership on this issue. We want him to legislate/pass our draft redress proposal and provide justice for these women, as the government did for survivors of residential institution abuse under the terms of the 2002 Redress Act.

[The Honest Courtesan] Mary Magdalene: this idea was popularized in 1982 by the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which suggested that the Catholic Church had suppressed the knowledge of Jesus’ marriage not only to support the doctrine of priestly celibacy, but also to prevent his blood descendants by Mary from challenging the authority of the Pope.  Those familiar with The Da Vinci Code will of course recognize this premise, which was borrowed from the earlier nonfiction work.  A few Neopagan writers have even proposed that Mary Magdalene may have been a temple prostitute for one of the mystery religions such as the very popular Isis cult; they suggest this could not only be the source of the seemingly contradictory harlot and holy woman traditions, but also explain her name (“exalted tower” could equal “temple”, thus “Mary Magdalene” = “Mary of the Temple”).

[Women's eNews] Young Women's Leadership Group Is Growing Strong | Womens eNews: by Anita Diamant, a 1997 novel about gender, family and history, members of the Cedar Falls, Iowa, chapter were watching a screening of the 2002 movie "The Magdalene Sisters." This film is about young women whose alleged sexual transgressions result in being exiled to the Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

[Abuse Tracker] Abuse Tracker: August 2010 Archives: Burke Brogan was one of the first people in Ireland to highlight the plight of the women in the Magdalen Laundries when her play Eclipsed was first produced in 1992. She was part of a group who, in consultations with Galway City Council, erected the statue in March of last year.

[dotCommonweal] dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Virtue Theory and the Irish Abuse Cases: I am grateful that to the other religious women here in the United States and abroad who are willing to put themselves on the line, who picket in front of cathedrals, in front of hotels where bishops meet like the USCCB in the U.S., in courtrooms in support of victim/survivors of sexual abuse by anyone but especially by clergy or religious belongine to our own church, but most especially those priests and religious who are willing to testify for legislative change, thus separating themselves from those who so personify the Clericalism that is still very much alive and well in the church.

[Politics in the Zeros] Christine Buckley. Interviews with Irish clergy abuse survivor: I'm joined by Christine Buckley, Director of the Aislan Centre for Victims of Child Abuse, for those that suffered in the Magdalene laundries. Christine has been on our program many times as an advocate, having experienced so much .

[Off My Knees, A Blog by Michael Baumann] Father Thomas Doyle on the Irish Child Abuse Report « Off My Knees ...: The standard responses are totally unacceptable because they are devious and irrelevant. Those who still hold to the institutional Church as their source of emotional security may well bray about anti-Catholicism, media sensationalism and exaggeration of what they claim to be an aberration.

[Thinking Anglicans] Thinking Anglicans: Civil Partnerships in Ireland: A corollary shift dimension then follows, relocating the main believer arena of stress or struggle or vexed yet shared discernment. Citizen life is no longer the automatic pilot core arena in which such traditional believers seek to be superior, special, protected from having to deal ethically and common sensically with diversity in modern social life.

[Voice from the Desert] Voice from the Desert » Blog Archive » Sinead O'Connor No Longer ...: Anyway, I had left the church informally over 10 years before SNL aired (for myriad *other reasons* including theology, dogma, doctrine, misogyny, and the abuse at the hands of the Monsters of Mercy that I did remember and never forgot), the memory surfaced in 1991-1992, then Sinead did her thing in October of that year. Sinead had been sentenced to a life of slavery in a Magdalen laundry.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Stiglitz on Primetime: - As an economist I don’t believe most of the doom and gloom we are hearing from the profession, just like I didn’t buy into the hysteria 3 years ago and buy shares in anglo or AIB. Ireland will be fine and any projections from the depths of a depression are likely to be as inaccurate as ESRI medium term review 2008

[dotCommonweal] dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Weighing Weigel's case against The ...: Weigel writes, “For the narrative that has been constructed is often less about the protection of the young (for whom the Catholic Church is, by empirical measure, the safest environment for young people in America today) than it is about taking the Church down””and, eventually, out, both financially and as a credible voice in the public debate over public policy. For if the Church is a global criminal conspiracy of sexual abusers and their protectors, then the Catholic Church has no claim to a place at the table of public moral argument.”

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