R.J.'s Talkback Plebe Radio (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} luciusmalfoy) wrote,@ 2009-07-08 13:24:00 |
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The Ryan Report
I'm going to read the Ryan Report. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may20
I don't actually want to because, well, I don't actually want to, because reading this isn't my idea of a good fucking time, thanks. But I think that I should. And I've been kind of putting it off for a while. :/
Australians are very passionate about the fact that they, personally, are sorry for the things their ancestors did when it came to wiping out the native aboriginal people. I guess this is sort of along the same lines. The fact is my family has such a long and high-level association with the Catholic church (on both sides, obviously, but I'm talking about the Irish element primarily here); at many times they were financially provided for by the church in terms of having housing, land, etc; and of course we had many high-level clerics who were relatives of mine - I don't think there's been a generation until my mothers that didn't have at least two members of the generation become either nuns, priests, mother superiors, deans, bishops, etc etc etc.
As you know I've also worked within the Catholic industry myself, with people of all levels including international/Vatican clerics. And, y'know. That Pope dude. I've also had work on Catholicism, fiction and non fiction, published around the place. While I'm religiously a Satanist; and spiritually an atheist, I self-identify as Catholic.
What this long ramble all boils down to is the fact that at some point I need to face the fact that the history of my family was supported and financed by an institution that was bouyed by the bodies of abused children and CONTINUES to fuck about and this seems as good a time as any to recognise this. In the way I figure Australians, or other countries who've fucked up people/races/things, do.
I'm going to read the Ryan Report. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may20
I don't actually want to because, well, I don't actually want to, because reading this isn't my idea of a good fucking time, thanks. But I think that I should. And I've been kind of putting it off for a while. :/
Australians are very passionate about the fact that they, personally, are sorry for the things their ancestors did when it came to wiping out the native aboriginal people. I guess this is sort of along the same lines. The fact is my family has such a long and high-level association with the Catholic church (on both sides, obviously, but I'm talking about the Irish element primarily here); at many times they were financially provided for by the church in terms of having housing, land, etc; and of course we had many high-level clerics who were relatives of mine - I don't think there's been a generation until my mothers that didn't have at least two members of the generation become either nuns, priests, mother superiors, deans, bishops, etc etc etc.
As you know I've also worked within the Catholic industry myself, with people of all levels including international/Vatican clerics. And, y'know. That Pope dude. I've also had work on Catholicism, fiction and non fiction, published around the place. While I'm religiously a Satanist; and spiritually an atheist, I self-identify as Catholic.
What this long ramble all boils down to is the fact that at some point I need to face the fact that the history of my family was supported and financed by an institution that was bouyed by the bodies of abused children and CONTINUES to fuck about and this seems as good a time as any to recognise this. In the way I figure Australians, or other countries who've fucked up people/races/things, do.
