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Laicisation Or Licensed Freedom, That Is The Question For The Salford Diocese.

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 I refer the reader back to my posting of May 21st this year entitled Does Charity Begin At Home where I discussed the merits of the Catholic charity, Caritas, and its total naivety in allowing the recently released clerical paedophile, William Green, to live so close to his old happy hunting ground of St Bede’s College on Alexandra Road in Manchester.

I have now been informed that on his early release from his six year prison sentence in February of this year, his sovereign master Brainless, the Bishop of Salford, gave him over to Caritas Diocese of Salford, a charity used to housing asylum seekers, the homeless and those without benefits who would normally have to live on the streets.  Mr Mark Wiggins, the Caritas CEO, in consultation with Angela Shannon, the Caritas Property Manager decided to house him in a hostel owned by the Hogben Family Trust but utilised by Caritas in Moss Side at 17 Beveridge Street, off Upper Lloyd Street, M14 7NN.

Beveridge Street unfortunately is only yards off Princess Road and about a kilometre across Alexandra Park from St Bede’s College, a park where we as pupils used to congregate every dinner time.  Beveridge Street is less than a kilometre from William Hulme School and within spitting distance of about eight other educational  establishments for young children.  As daft as I am and if I was in charge of Caritas, I would no more think of placing William Green in that neighbourhood as I would think of housing a thief in a bank.   Green although living in sparse conditions was coddled by Caritas staff having his own meals on wheels service bringing him food from Cornerstone, a charitable adjunct of Caritas.  Other residents had to go to Cornerstone and queue up if they needed sustenance.  He was also provided with a new television set to save him watching  the set in the communal area of the hostel.  He lived an unsupervised life, able to come and go as he pleased with only registered visits of a probation officer keeping check on him.

At the hostel Green originally kept himself aloof of the others spending most of his time in his attic apartment but he was introduced to the residents as Mr Green.  Probably indicating that Caritas thought him laicised although the Diocese of Salford think differently.  This whole area of dealing with convicted priests is fraught with controversy.  Lord Nolan in his report of 2002 said that convicted priests with a sentence of over 12 months should be automatically laicised and the Bishops of England and Wales agreed but they have now gone back on that agreement and decided to keep these people within the flock.  That kind of thinking does not work in principle because these men are left to wander freely without any constraints but it does allow them to live a reasonably comfortable life with money provided to them from the collections at Sunday mass

When confronted with the fears of Green’s fellow residents who thought that the hostel was not the best location for a paedophile, the Property Manager, Ms Shannon told them not to be stupid as he would not offend again as his probation conditions forbade this sort of behaviour.  This onus has not stopped many a paedophile in the past and it is hard to think it would put off a determined  William Green.  Ms. Shannon finished up her admonishment of the residents saying that if they did not like the arrangement they could leave but eventually offered two of them hotel accommodation which one of them refused.  This man was told a couple of days later that he had to leave and all the locks in the hostel were changed – he had been evicted.  So much for Christian charity.

My informant now homeless tells me he was determined to make a fuss over this deliberate act of injustice and contacted a top-dog in the field of the care of children who had written at length on the Church’s reaction to convicted priests and their acts of non-laicisation.  This top-dog contacted the Caritas CEO, Mark Wiggins, who wrote back on three separate occasions denying that Green was living in the area or even that he was under the Caritas banner, shortly after this Green was moved on.  Wiggins the crafty sod stated categorically that Green was not living in a Caritas owned property, which indeed he was not as Beveridge Street is owned by the Hogben Family Trust.  Our top-dog also contacted Greater Manchester Police and the Probation Service who told him that he had moved out of one area into another but would not say where, perhaps back to his half way house at Walmsley Road in Bury or possibly to somewhere in Blackley that he said he preferred or perhaps the devious bastards have sent him back to Beveridge Street now that the heat has gone out of the situation.

Dawn Lundergren, the coordinator of the Safeguarding Commission was contacted, she said she would look into the matter but in true Safeguarding Commission style never came back.  When it comes to investigating these matters in the Catholic Church you are met with blank faces and negativity.  There is no openness and transparency about the way the Church deals with its dirty washing.

It is a shame really for Caritas to be involved in this argument because without doubt it is a most Christian-like organisation and the volunteers at the bottom who keep the charity on the road must be of the highest sort.  The trouble is when you start to climb the salaried ladder of its hierarchy you are faced with the same lies and deceit you begin to expect from the clergy.  It is this layer of duplicitousness and untruth that is ruining the present day Church.  I have copies of Mr Wiggins letters to our top-dog and you would wonder why he needs to tell such blatant lies, he must be like the rest of the ecclesiastical morass, a person of low intellect.

So Mr Green is living in some other Caritas hostel, presumably in the Salford Diocese now known only to, GMP and Caritas and presumably the Probation Services.   It is not ideal but I suppose it will have to do until the next whistle blower comes on the scene.    Would it not be better for the Salford Diocese to cut the ropes that tie, laicise him, let him free to sink or swim for that is what happens to us lay folk if we stray from the righteous path.  I am sure Green wants to be free.  That hostel existence must not be good, he must be in his pits, so why not leave him there to stew.

Certainly let nobody have pity on him, charity should not be offered.  If you have to think good thoughts then only think of Green’ victims and the suffering of their pitiful lives which is still going on 20 and 30 years after the abuse they suffered as children and which they will continue to suffer from for the rest of their lives.  And God blast Mr Low Intellect Wiggins and his acolyte Shannon and all the rest of the duplicitous nonsense creatures who call themselves the Salford Diocese.


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