This commitment is based on our Christian belief in the dignity and uniqueness of every person and in the recognition that each one of us is made in the image and likeness of God. I'm afraid you have the wrong end of the stick here. DE LA SALLE BROTHERS. To reprise, when it existed, the SCOE/DLS assured me there would be a public apology for the horrific corporal punishments delivered by Brother Laurence Hughes previously head of the DLS. sheffco March 18, 2004 in Sheffield History & Expats, I was passed the address for this site - -. But as Old Boy Pete pointed out to me the ties and the badges seem different. Brother Laurence Hughes, head of the De La Salle Brothers in Great Britain and Ireland, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he would have expected other members of staff to have known. The local Ipswich paper were investigating him for a while quite recently. Too big a subject other than to note he was always whining, Uriah Heep style, I always tried to do the best for you boys.. It's pure catharsis. Heres my TWEETS on the subject of the RLSS. 1969 - 1972. The brothers' final year I moved to De La Salle from St. Joseph's primary in 1969, the final year under the De La Salle brothers. One of the first to emphasize classroom teaching over individual instruction, he was named Patron of Teachers in 1950. Some of this site is still salvageable from the Wayback Machine for those who are interested. The change to Cardinal Newmam was a change for the better and whilst I personally have no complaints about the brothers, I do wonder what OFSTED would have made of them. And how it can be triggered today by relatively minor incidents. Their call follows the suspension of the current provincial of the Order following a complaint by one former pupil of St Josephs College, Ipswich. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Please contact Anne Hayes (nee McGinty) for more information and to confirm if you would like to attend: annehayes1960@gmail.com. We were situated on the top floor in an interesting little room. Mills has revealed that he based the character of Judge Dredd, a terrifying, authoritarian figure who acted as judge, jury and executioner in the futuristic Mega City, on the monks of his schooldays who terrorised pupils. We are passionate about our ministry of. We could smell it both before and after she had visited the classroom. 1962? The claim was a test case as there were pending some 150 additional cases where abuse was alleged at the hands of brothers at that school. (More in an earlier blog). Firstly, James had one or more nervous breakdowns following his ferocious sexual assault on a boy at St Js Ipswich in around 65, which caused him to leave the school in a hurry and after an interval end up at Beulah Hill. But the Truth must run where it will. I would submit that this is the right and moral thing for you to do. But nothings changed and their time is up. Catholic Safeguarding knew I would be wasting my time by reporting historic crimes to Hydrant, but they let me go ahead. It would be ridiculous to get bogged down in such bureaucracy, which the RLSS are currently attempting. All it really needs is the RLSS to send the DLS a list of interested survivors and agreed times. After laying low in Jersey, part of the De La Salle brothers rat line- where brothers could escape to France if the police closed in on them, he was at Beulah Hill from maybe 1962. Ranging from I hear what youre saying to Im so sorry to hear how much pain this has caused you. Or Im so sorry that is your recollection of your school days., Immediately, I can see the DLS, or its lawyers, or the RLS saying But but but but but but but but but but, cant, cant cant cant. Or, even worse, Thats a really great idea, Pat. Advertising works - you're reading this! He went nuts. Currently, the DLS have not confirmed their promised apology for the behaviour of their head Brother Laurence Hughes, now demoted because of his physical cruelty to children, as highlighted on this site. In addition to the founding of schools in 22 cities by the time of his death in 1719, De La Salle contributed significantly to the entire field of education through his writings and innovative methodology. Of course the real culprits are the De La Salles who would seem to be more formidable opponents than the Cistercians and who are treating survivors with absolute contempt. But I wanted to see what the 'new broom' RLSS Safeguarding was like. My guess is its the Catholic insurance company who are saying, Dont say anything. Richard (Dickie, to us all at that time), you played guitar and I still recall your Chuck Berry numbers. It doesnt get us anywhere as Ive previously described because they are not the DLS. Because they are a new organization I believed I should give them the benefit of the doubt and also in the interests of due diligence. I don't believe it provided anythink useful in respect of direction or life skills and I'm baffled as to why some people choose to join De la Salle affiliated organisations. You dont own meYou dont tell me what to doDont tell me what to say, Dont try to change me in any wayYou dont own me, I dont tell you what to sayI dont tell you what to doSo just let me be myselfThats all I ask of youIm free and I love to be freeTo live my life the way I wantTo say and do whatever I please. Please reflect on that before you continue to sing the praises of a questionable organization that is still operating today and still has its hand out for more funding to continue its holy work in the Global South. An olive branch is being offered them: a way of getting at least some of the poison out for some Survivors, and I would recommend they take it. Neither have they carried out their promised enquiry into the unheard of complaints on this site. The claim was a test case as there were pending some 150 additional cases where abuse was alleged at the hands of brothers at that school. Even the Tablet had to acknowledge this was untoward. The 700 student K-12 school becomes the newest member of DENA's family of ministries. I understand that LH no longer holds any leadership or safeguarding rolewithin DLS. They were going to have her released on Christmas Eve when shed learnt her lesson and promised to behave herself in future. Especially when there is evidence its organised sexual abuse. Pat has also written two semi-aubiographical dark comedies . In my view, because you are tethered by your paymasters, you should remove the De La Salles from your list of clients because their current immoral behaviour in line with their criminal past is giving your RLSS a very bad name. At the moment, the RLSS the DLSs Safeguarder is acting as a punch bag for their paymasters the De La Salles. The DLS according to the RLSS have not been very communicative with them either. A series of court cases in recent years have exposed sexual abuse by Christian Brothers staff. This has given me a chance to apologise for the disappearance of the above De La Salle College (Sheffield) ex pupils website that I created and updated. The De La Salle Brothers have dedicated their lives to the mission to meet the education and welfare needs of young people, the Brothers focus on enhancing the lives of young people around the world but especially the poor. Which tells us a great deal. I dont recall anything unusual or horrendous. campus safety meeting. The perception amongst Survivors is that the RLSS are being paid to take the heat for the crimes of the De La Salles. Most of them wouldn't have passed their teacher training had they not been members of a religious order. It was great when it changed to Cardinal Newman for my last 2 years, being treated as a young adult by normal teachers. Bro Aidan taught French and lived in the cottage by the tennis courts with Bro Cuthman. Perhaps its optional. I attended De La Salle between 1967-72 and I have to say I hated it. Unfortunately because it was hosted by an ISP that required dialling in every so often to keep it active this led to me losing all the info and I hadn't taken regular back-ups. Despite the positive result at Caldey Island, after my personal experience with the SCOE, the RLSS and the DLS, I see nothing to disagree with here, not least because Safeguarding organizations have very limited power. We believe we meet God in the messiness of life: there is no other place to meet God. Hi I`m new today (site was recommended to me by Bushbaby). Bro Cuthman aka Fluff taught Classics and Latin. Ive felt out-manouvered by Police Hydrant and Catholic Safeguarding. I met him several times in the late 80s whilst on visits to Rome. The former pupil claimant contended that the SED owed him a non-delegable duty which entitled him to . I was also President of the SJC Railway Society and the Brothers in particular Bro Damian (Director) allowed me to organise regular weekend trips to eg National Railway Museum York or Bressingham etc. This man has been convicted of abusing more children than anybody else in Ireland. So they will carry on as before but with increasing media and social media pressure sooner or later their full history will be revealed to the public. James was obviously much worse at Beulah Hill because two accounts there describe how he ground chalk into the palm of his hand as a kind of stigmata. And they controlled the financial purse string to my fee-paying education at St Josephs College, Ipswich, and thus my destiny. Brother Richard Allen aka Egg Head a previous Assistant General of the DLS Order based at The Generalate in Rome. A former principal of De La Salle High School and a subordinate are accused of sexually molesting one of the Uptown school's students in the 1980s, according to a new lawsuit filed last month. The words of Lesley Gore were a life-saver. Angry, sad, reproachful, etc. The premises which first housed De La Salle were situated in Cospicua at 96, Strada Buongiorno. Heres what the SCOE actually said to me on 15th July last year. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The award-winning peoples history of our city. So if you were able to find those tweets and retweet them, they would reach a wider audience and show the Catholic Church and its organisations for the shameful entities they really are. Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charitys capital or to invest part of its income. Nowadays, De La Salle College incorporates a Primary School, a Secondary School and a Sixth form with over 1300 students. Or they see it as an initiation rite, like a frat club. The De La Salle religious figures ran a property in Kircubbin, Co Down, south. https://twitter.com/Smartcairns11/status/1590654903328051200. Well, Brothers Solomon, Kevin and James were just the tip of the abuser iceberg. I retired in 2021. It was not uncommon, in class, for us to be the target of projectiles such as sticks of chalk, rubbers etc, aimed from the teachers desk. The late Brother Solomon left the order and later returned to St Josephs where he was known as Mike Mercado, who also had a brief singing career when he was known as The Swinging Monk. Bro Lawrence taught several subjects including English & RE he didnt have any House Master Duties. It may or may not be recorded. Bro Owen 1st Year House Master still at SJC in the mid 1980s. Aidan didnt have any House Master Duties. Some, but probably not all, were Knights of St Columba. more like the Talibans. 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Discipline was instilled and inflicted in equal measure. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Also at the time I intended to become a Jesuit Priest so maybe that protected me from abuse. The RLSS invited me to a (Zoom) meeting. It was also stated, as you can see, that it would be a prominent apology, rather than the earlier example of a DLS apology on a separate and general matter. Beginning in the late 1600s, John Baptist De La Salle transformed education in France by . Catholics, abusers or not, always seem to seek control over children. Privacy Statement - opens in a new window, Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College debating team. I have a detailed testimony which makes a convincing case for this. We all wore the school uniform and our shoes and appearance were inspected each morning. I think you owned a mini when we were in the 6th form the only person in our year to own a car in the late 70s. Two things are now established beyond reasonable doubt which many of you may not be aware of. But over the years he constantly refers to the DLS well-stocked wines at St Js Ipswich. For example, a science fantasy series where the High Priest of the Archeologists, who bury all forms of progress, has banned technology, and has an especial hatred for Web3. The Board of Trustees ensures that the Catholic and Lasallian principles . Then the DLS or RLSS sends the survivor a Zoom link. By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. Our College was founded in 1855 when six De La Salle brothers came over from France to set up the first De La Salle school at the 'Redemptorist St Mary's Church Elementary school' in Clapham Old Town. Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. There was also to my knowledge no innuendo of any form of sexual abuse by either the Brothers or Lay Teachers. These were guys who hid from society because they couldn't get a girlfriend. My name is Sen Michael Lea I was a Border at SJC Oakhill then at Birkfield from 1975 to 1980. Mr Thuell taught History and British Constitution. It is ranked #801-1000 in QS World University Rankings 2023. Catholic news The rest were devout holy men and excellent teachers, according to many Old Boys who were not harmed. Beulah Hill has actually more allegations of Solomon being a violent animal and sexual abuser than Ipswich. They stopped paying my school fees and so I left at age fifteen and became a messenger boy for R and W Paul in Ipswich. An order of Catholic Brothers has apologised for abusing boys at its residential care home in Northern Ireland. No one has taken the trouble to find out how and why or if it stopped. See if it works. 1974. Thus, for all their good intentions, they are perpetuating an unjust system. Victor, Wilfred, Alpheus, Gabriel, Kevin etc. In the United States and Canada, the De La Salle Christian Brothers and Lasallian Partners serve more than 100,000 people through a network of seven colleges/universities, 51 secondary schools (four are Cristo Rey), and 21 middle and elementary schools (11 are San Miguel). Well, of course you didnt because you werent at risk! Theres plenty more where he came from.. So this problem is not going to go away for decades to come. The first day of school was November 3, 1903. And other parents who are reading about St Josephs Ipswich and Beulah Hill here for the first time. BROTHER LAURENCE HUGHES THE MISSING APOLOGY, LIST OF BROTHERS AT ST JOSEPHS COLLEGE IPSWICH 1974 1980, We werent taught. Holroyd Science Center Atrium. The Brother Director and founder of De la Salle College was Bro. POSTS ON THIS FORUM ARE NOT ACTIVELY MONITORED. 5. De La Salle University is one of the top private universities in Manila, Philippines. St. Miguel Arul Thendral (Formation House) Its what I clearly remember as a kid. I made some great friends who sadly I haven`t seen since I left in `72 but I really don`t have one good memory about the school itself.The only thing I enjoyed was playing for the school football team every Saturday at Beauchiff for 3 years until I had an altercation with a certain Sports master . The RLSS must know its wrong, but theyre in financial thrall to the DLS so they keep their mouths shut. . 211 talking about this. De La Salle was canonised in 1900 and declared Patron Saint of Teachers in 1950. and is the patron saint of teachers. We survivors are not collateral damage, much as I think some Catholics would like us to be and just shut up and leave these holy men alone. That makes the DLS a criminal organization and its impossible to identify, with any certainty, who was good and who was evil. Warning: Its hypocrisy may be triggering for some survivors. Statement: Carmelite Order, which runs Terenure College, It was a grave failure that he was not stopped, and for this, we are truly sorry. Thank you for your feedback. I see no such humanity in the DLS or the RLSS.. A prayer and education site of the De La Salle Brothers in Great Britain. La Salle Union Dunleavy Room. By And so far you are losing and the De La Salles are winning. The De La Salle Order has confirmed that Brother Laurence Hughes, 90, who once taught at St Joseph's College, has been suspended following an allegation of abuse, police informed and a. Only the blatant ones, a very few of whom were caught. 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