Justice versus Conscience

Liam Allan, a 22-year-old criminology student falsely accused, is a metaphor for a justice system that nearly failed

Is this still a church?

“What I wear is all I have.
We lost our home,
I’m livin’ from a bag.”

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Is this still a church?
– To obey orders blindly doesn’t absolve responsibility.
‘Only obeying orders’
was a common defense in Nuremberg trials.

Wat ik draag is alles wat ik heb.
We zijn ons huis verloren,
alles wat we hebben zit in een tas.

“Ik sta ‘s ochtends op verscheurd tussen een verlangen om de wereld te verbeteren en een verlangen om van de wereld te genieten. Dit maakt het moeilijk om de dag te plannen.”

Is this still a society?

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Is this still justice?

Are you still human?

Emotional Impact

Deceptive Justice

Bart De Pauw

The making of

Deliberate Wrongdoing

Central Park Jogger Case

The glow of life

1 Henry Thomas audition för E.T. “Ok kid, you got the job”.

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UniversalPicsSweden

10 okt 2012

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial släpps på Blu-ray för första gången 31 oktober. I restaurerat skick med nytt bonusmaterial.

2 Bars & Melody – Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer act | Britain’s Got Talent 2014

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Simon finally gets around to pushing his Golden Buzzer for a youthful musical duo. Bars & Melody combine cuteness and originality, charming our audience with their skills.

Simon surprises all at the end.

Bars & Melody – Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer act | Britain’s Got Talent 2014.

I listened to every word.

Duo Rap and original anti-bullying song surprise.

Their very first audition

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Britain’s Got Talent S08E05 Bars & Melody Duo Rap an original anti-bullying song Simon surprise

Bars & Melody – Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer act | Britain’s Got Talent 2014

The life reality of a child

3 This Emotional Audition Will Melt Your Heart!

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Top Viral Talent

Isaac Waddington – Britain’s Got Talent Audition

4 Singer-songwriter Reuben Gray does his dad proud | Auditions Week 2 | Britain’s Got Talent 2017

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22 apr. 2017

Britain’s Got Talent

Singer-songwriter Reuben Gray thought his biggest fan, his dad, was unable to make his Audition but got the surprise of his life when he emerged in the crowd to witness him performing original song, Lifeline, for the Judges.

5 Zal ze haar jeugdliefde herkennen?

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La Vie

5 sep 2020 BORDEAUX

Ze hebben elkaar niet meer gezien sinds ze elf waren, maar hij is haar nooit vergeten.

00:00 Ik ben op zoek naar mijn oude jeugdliefde
4:10 Briefbezorging aan Danielle
8:20 Openbaar advies
9:44 Het gordijn openen
13:20 Als er iets tussen ons gebeurt
15:33 Zal ze het gordijn openen?

Het officiële kanaal van Only the truth matter:

/ y a que la vérité qui compte

6 Ze verdween uit zijn leven, maar niet uit zijn hart (nagesynchroniseerd in het Engels)

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Y a que la vérité qui compte

In première gegaan op 29 jun 2022 STRASBOURG

Zal het omgekeerde waar zijn?

A young man meets the 19-year-old kidney donor who saved his life

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Good Morning America

29 jul 2019

“He basically gave me life,” the kidney recipient said. “Everything I do, everything I will do, I owe to him.”

It will happen on a cold day in Hell

Paula Vennells served as the CEO of the British Post Office from 2012 to 2019. She is also ordained as a minister in the Church of England and has held various positions within the Anglican Church, including serving as a lay member of the General Synod, which is the legislative body of the Church of England. Vennells has been involved in various aspects of church leadership alongside her corporate career.

However, it’s worth noting that her tenure at the Post Office was marked by controversy surrounding the handling of a faulty accounting system that resulted in hundreds of sub-postmasters being wrongly accused of theft and false accounting.

5 Church ‘Should Have Inquired More’ About Paula Vennells

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TalkTV

23 feb 2024 LONDON

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has acknowledged that the Church of England did not adequately question the involvement of Paula Vennells, former Post Office boss and Anglican priest, in Church bodies amid the Horizon scandal.

In response to a written question to the General Synod, Welby admitted that more inquiries should have been made about Vennells’ positions on an ethical investment committee in 2019 and 2020, given the revelations about the Horizon scandal.

He refrained from confirming or denying whether Vennells was interviewed for the position of bishop of London, citing confidentiality.

Kevin O’Sullivan and Alex Phillips speak with political commentator Tatton Spiller.

6 Should The Archbishops Be Held Accountable?

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Rev Dan

30 jan 2024 Rev Dan’s Podcast

There are calls for the Archbishops to be held to account for inviting Paula Vennels to help the Church of England four times!

What is right and wrong, for it is well understood nowadays,
that to do wrong because you are obeying is not to escape responsibility.

‘Only obeying orders’ was the main defense presented by many of the defendants
in the Nuremberg war trials when the senior members of the Nazi government,
the Armed Forces, and secret police were put on trial for war crimes.

‘Only obeying orders’ is the excuse that people bring
when they have done something that they do not, in their heart of hearts,
feel was intrinsically right, but where they felt disempowered.
The story of Daniel 6 is very clear as to its subject.

Transcript at minute 8

By Guest Speaker Most Reverend Justin Welby

7 Who Runs Our Lives? | Justin Welby

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HTB Church

17 jul 2018

‘We are the servants of the Lord, as Jesus’ mother said, “Let it be unto me as the Lord decrees”. But the reality is that even if we say that, on the whole our daily practice is slightly different.’

Guest speaker Most Reverend Justin Welby continues our series in the book of Daniel, looking at who holds the ultimate authority over our world.

At minute 8: What is right and what is wrong?

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8 Lady Diana – Candle in the wind (Goodbye Englands rose) – Elton John – Lyrics in text

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15 feb. 2014

Missmariasiya

In the loving memory of Lady Diana Song: Candle in the wind (Goodbye Englands rose)

By: Elton John

Lyrics..

Goodbye England’s rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
You called out to our country
And you whispered to those in pain
Now you belong to heaven
And the stars spell out your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here
Along England’s greenest hills
Your candle’s burned out long before
Your legend ever will

Loveliness we’ve lost
These empty days without your smile
This torch we’ll always carry
For our nation’s golden child
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express
The joy you brought us through the years

Goodbye England’s rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart
Goodbye England’s rose
From a country lost without your soul
Who’ll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you’ll ever know

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in
And you footsteps will always fall here
Along England’s greenest hills
Your candle’s burned out long before
Your legend ever will

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Trow me a Lifeline

Cfr. Singer-songwriter Reuben Gray (video 4)

The First Nation Residential Schools in Canada

For a period of more than 150 years, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation children were taken from their families and communities to attend schools which were often located far from their homes. More than 150,000 children attended Indian Residential Schools. Many never returned.

There were numerous reports of physical punishment, sexual abuse, malnutrition, and inadequate healthcare in these schools. The harsh living conditions, abuse, and neglect in residential schools resulted in significant trauma and impacted the mental, emotional, and physical health of the survivors.

The darker side of Residential Schools

9 Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentaries

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Al Jazeera English

14 jun 2017

Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentary

In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant “Canadian” culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or forcibly removed from their homes

Residential schools were part of an extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.

Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, was “picked up” and taken to the school along with four other children as they walked along a public road to visit his grandmother.

I’m ashamed to say I’m Canadian because of what my government has done.

Ron Short, former RCMP officer

“They didn’t put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that,” he explains. “It was in the routine of the place.

“You didn’t speak anything but English. You went to the white man’s school. You went to the white man’s church. You wore white mens’ clothes. All those were built in. It wasn’t a classroom-type lecture. It was ingrained in the system.”

In 2008, the Canadian government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which finally enabled survivors to give their testimonies on life in the residential schools. Abuse – mental, physical and sexual – was rife and, although research and statistics vary, it is estimated that 6,000 children died in these schools. Some evidence puts the casualties at three times that number.

After its formation, the TRC travelled around Canada for six years, gathering testimony from thousands who bore witness to the tragedies of the residential schools. Numerous “Aboriginal healing” programmes were put in place to help those affected to move on with their lives.

The Mother and Baby Homes Ireland

What are ‘mother and baby homes’? Throughout the mid-1900s, ‘mother and baby homes’ emerged across Ireland to provide refuge for unwed mothers and their babies who were left without adequate support or family.

The Mother and Baby Homes Ireland

10 The Forgotten Maggies Official Documentary (52 min) Magdalene Laundries

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Steven O’ Riordan

1 apr 2016

Directed and Produced by Steven O’Riordan, The Forgotten Maggies follows the lives of several Magdalene women who left the institutions in Ireland and tried to obtain Redress for the abuse they suffered. It focuses on the human rights aspect surrounding the Magdalene Laundries, including an exploration of the High Park exhumation in Dublin, where 155 Magdalene women were exhumed in 1993.

The documentary was launched at the Galway Film Festival in 2009 and had its international premiere at The Cantor Film Centre in New York the same year. It was broadcast on Irish TV for the first time in 2011 and is the only Irish-made film on the subject matter.

The Irish Times said that “The Forgotten Maggies was an opportunity to “rectify” in some small way, the wrong that was visited upon these women over many years”, with the Irish Independent saying, “It took the persistence of documentary maker Steven O’Riordan and his team to secure justice.” The Forgotten Maggies gave the women political recognition, clearing the way for an official state apology to the survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries in 2013.

It was filmed in Ireland and the UK from 2006-2009, including Carlow, Wexford, Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Limerick, London and Bournemouth.

11 Tuam Weeshuis: Kinderen van schaamte

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Best Documentary

6 apr 2024 IRLANDE

Tuam, een naam die heel Ierland in het voorjaar van 2014 traumatiseerde toen een onvoorstelbaar verhaal aan het licht kwam. Op het voormalige terrein van een tehuis voor alleenstaande moeders werd een verborgen massagraf ontdekt met de stoffelijke resten van zo’n 800 kinderen, een hel op aarde waar kinderen stierven door mishandeling, en op schandelijke wijze in het geheim werden begraven en vergeten. Regie: Saskia Webner, Nicolas Glimois

12 Het schandaal van de vergeten kinderen van Tuam (Children of Sin)

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imineo Documentaires

26 mrt 2024

Het schandaal brak in mei 2014 uit, na de ontdekking van een historicus. Er wordt aangenomen dat 800 kinderen clandestien begraven liggen in Tuam, een klein stadje in West-Ierland. De skeletten liggen in een septic tank op het voormalige terrein van een tehuis voor alleenstaande moeders.
Tot de jaren negentig kende het land tientallen van dit soort detentiecentra, gerund door katholieke religieuze ordes. Waaraan stierven deze buitenechtelijke baby’s, die als de vrucht van de zonde worden beschouwd? Waarom werden ze ter adoptie verkocht? Wie profiteerde van dit horrorsysteem? Deze documentaire volgt de reis van deze moeders-dochters.

Regie: Saskia Weber, Nicolas Glimois

13 Ireland’s stolen children fight for justice | DW Documentary

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DW Documentary

24 okt 2023

Getting pregnant out of wedlock was long seen as a disgrace in Catholic Ireland. By 1998, more than 50,000 women had had their babies taken away and given up for adoption. Many of these children are now trying to trace their birth mothers.

They are also fighting for their plight to be recognized at last. Contraception and abortion were long banned, sex before marriage taboo, and sex education was practically non-existent. If a woman, nevertheless, fell pregnant, she was generally treated as the “guilty” party even if she had been raped. Whoever was unable or unwilling to have an illegal abortion abroad had no further say over the matter. The priest was informed and he decided whether the woman would be thrown out on the street, or sent to one of the 18 Catholic mother and baby homes.
Paul Redmond was born in one of those homes. He describes himself and others in a similar situation as “survivors” of a scandal that is still rocking Ireland. The 59-year-old keeps on returning to the place where he was born, which now lies empty. He says that many babies were left lying in their beds there and their nappies were rarely changed. Children with a disability or another skin color were particularly neglected, according to Redmond.
The consequences of this neglect were terrible. In the town of Tuam in western Ireland, local historian Catherine Corless discovered that the bodies of almost 800 babies and children had been concealed in a mass grave on the site of the former home. She prompted a national investigation into the scandal and went on to campaign for the exhumation of the infants’ remains.
That is also something close to Anna Corrigan’s heart. She discovered that she had two brothers who were born in the home in Tuam. A death certificate exists for her brother John, but it’s unclear what happened to William. Exhumation and DNA tests could bring clarity. Anna is still searching for clues. She hasn’t given up hope that her brother William might still be alive.

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The Crisis in the Catholic Church

14 This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church

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4 mei 2012

15 Belgian priest claims child abuse was ‘a game’

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15 apr. 2011

Channel 4 News

The former Bishop of Bruges has told a French TV crew that the abuse of his 5 year old nephew was like ‘a game’ and admitted that he abused a second relative. Under Belgian law he cannot be charged because too much time has elapsed since the crime.

16 Belgique : abus sexuels dans l’Eglise, Roger Vangheluwe destitué par le pape François – RTBF Info

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RTBF Info

22 mrt 2024

Le pape François a accédé à la demande de renvoyer de l’état clérical l’ancien évêque de Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, a annoncé jeudi par voie de communiqué la Nonciature apostolique.

Informé de sa destitution, Roger Vangheluwe a demandé de pouvoir résider dans un lieu de retraite, “sans plus aucun contact avec le monde extérieur, afin de se dédier à la prière et à la pénitence”.

Un sujet diffusé le 21/03/2024

17 Belgique : abus sexuels dans l’Eglise, Roger Vangheluwe destitué par le pape François – RTBF Info

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TV5MONDE

16 apr 2011

L’actualité vue par les partenaires de TV5MONDE : TSR, RTBF, France télévisions et Radio Canada. Diffusion dans le journal de 6 heures (heure française). le 15 avril 2011. www.tv5monde.com

18 Gelovige over Godvergeten: “Er is een verschil tussen instituut Kerk en praktiseren van geloof”

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VRT NWS

17 sep 2023

Jullie hebben allemaal het recht om jullie mening te geven, maar heb respect voor elkaar. Reacties waarin je scheldt of iemand persoonlijk aanvalt, worden verwijderd.

Letter to the Pope