English Benedictine Congregation

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Loretto School apologises for giving reference to sexual predator

BBC News 27 May 2021

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard it also published a "gushing memorial" article on him in the school magazine ... Meanwhile, Lady Smith, chairing the inquiry, said she will reluctantly delay publishing her findings relating to schools linked to the English Benedictine Congregation.

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Private school apologises for giving good reference to sex abuser

Metro UK 27 May 2021

... Abuse Inquiry heard on Thursday ... Kate and Wills race each other on beach as they return to where they first met ... Meanwhile, Lady Smith, chairing the inquiry, said she will reluctantly delay publishing her findings relating to schools linked to the English Benedictine Congregation.

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School apologises for giving good job reference to sexual predator teacher

Belfast Telegraph 27 May 2021

Elsewhere, Lady Smith, chairing the inquiry, said she will delay publishing her findings relating to schools linked to the English Benedictine Congregation including Carlekemp in North Berwick and Fort Augustus Abbey in the Highlands ... Information for those wishing to attend the Boarding School hearings can be found on the Inquiry website.

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Paedophile priests acted ‘like mafia’ abusing schoolboys, as Vatican refused to give crucial evidence

Yahoo Daily News 25 Oct 2019

The IICSA report, investigating the Roman Catholic Church with the English Benedictine Congregation as a case study,  said that there was a "sadistic and predatory" culture marked by “excessive corporal punishment” at the school in the 1970s when some of the abuse began.

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Children abused for decades at 'sadistic' London school, inquiry finds

The Guardian 24 Oct 2019

... in west London, part of the English Benedictine Congregation, were perpetrators of abuse over a 30-year period.

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Religious order says abuse ‘robbed’ pupils of their childhoods

Belfast Telegraph 01 Oct 2019

Paul Reid, representing the English Benedictine Congregation, said it had “taken too long” for the pupils affected to be heard and believed ... It has been investigating schools linked to the English Benedictine Congregation, particularly Carlekemp in North Berwick and Fort Augustus Abbey in the Highlands.

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Cardinal John Henry Newman: Canonisation imminent for ‘greatest of English prose writers’

The Irish Times 24 Sep 2019

James Joyce declared, through the lips of Stephen Dedalus, that Newman was 'the greatest of English prose writers' ... At the Second Vatican Council, Abbot Christopher Butler (abbot-president of the English Benedictine Congregation) said that he “felt Newman’s spirit brooding over the council”.

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Lawrence of Arabia made pupil realise priest was sadomasochist, inquiry told

Belfast Telegraph 25 Jul 2019

Mr Donovan said ... “He was slackjawed and drooling ... He added ... “I said something to the effect that made him understand that I knew what he was, I understood and I was also in a similar position – go easy on it, which he did.” ... Fort Augustus Abbey was run by religious order the English Benedictine Congregation ... Press Association . .

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Smell of toast gives former pupil `nice feeling´ about abusive priest

This is Money 24 Jul 2019

A former boarding school pupil has told how he “can’t explain” why the smell of toast makes him feel affectionate towards a priest who would strip and beat him ... “I would have to take my clothes off and asked to bend over, my hands were on the chair or the desk ... The witness added ... He said ... Both schools were run by the English Benedictine Congregation ... .

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