December 15, 2009
Withhold Church Donations, says US Clerical Abuse Survivor
IRELAND -- A prominent survivor of clerical sex abuse in the United States has urged Irish Catholics to withhold their financial contributions from the church. Barbara Blaine broke off a family holiday to hand out a statement outside the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin yesterday afternoon. In it she called for Catholics to contribute to organisations that help children rather than to the church itself. Ms Blaine went public on the abuse she suffered as a teenager in Toledo, Ohio, at the hands of a priest who was a family friend, Rev. Chet Warren.Click Here For The Full Story......