Catholic & Loving it! blog - James Preece - 17.6.2011
http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2011/06/four-hundred-days-of-exile.html#comments
Fr Dermot Fenlon has now been exiled from his home in Birmingham for four hundred days.
It's okay though, because he's an old man, so it doesn't matter.
When clerical power authority is used to abuse children sexually we have "safeguarding", but when it is abused to evict an old man from his home we have nothing.
3 Oratorians were ordered to "spend time in prayer" at 3 separate monasteries hundreds of miles apart and indefinitely. Of the 3, Fr. Dermot Fenlon (described by the Oratory's own spokesman as "entireley guiltless of any wrong doing whatsoever") remains silenced and in exile. This blog is an archive of publications about the scandal at Newman's Oratory. It aims to bring out the facts, of the great injustice suffered by the 3, particularly the cruel treatment of Fr. Dermot Fenlon.