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Patricia Debney

@PatriciaDebney

Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re Child Sexual Abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Patricia Debney(@PatriciaDebney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Feeling empowered and listened to as a survivor of involved with LOUDfence here. Thank you The Tablet and Brendan Walsh for giving me the opportunity to respond to this important report. It is crucial that we look deeply into all cultural systems across society, including…

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Durham University(@durham_uni) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New research by Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University finds aspects of Catholic culture were implicated in how clerical child sexual abuse happened.

Four-year study listened to the voices of victim-survivors of abuse and others affected across the Catholic community.

Read more πŸ‘‰ brnw.ch/21wJjmo

New research by @CCSDham finds aspects of Catholic culture were implicated in how clerical child sexual abuse happened. Four-year study listened to the voices of victim-survivors of abuse and others affected across the Catholic community. Read more πŸ‘‰ brnw.ch/21wJjmo
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Antonia Sobocki(@ASobocki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place we first started and truly know it for the first time - T.S.Eliot
Now you know the wounds our church carries, what are you prepared to do about it? - LOUDfence

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive at the place we first started and truly know it for the first time - T.S.Eliot Now you know the wounds our church carries, what are you prepared to do about it? - LOUDfence
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Patricia Debney(@PatriciaDebney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So pleased to have an article up on The Tablet blog, with Alana Harris , about LOUDfence, , , and There’s a commissioned poem here too, by yours truly. Grateful to be part of this vital movement. πŸ’ͺ

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Nate Postlethwait(@nate_postlethwt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don’t underestimate the value of sitting quietly with someone when they’re in pain. Let them talk. Listen to hear. There is profound healing in someone experiencing your care by offering your presence and withholding your advice.

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Patricia Debney(@PatriciaDebney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The impact of prostration - highlighting the suffering of abuse victim survivors both within and beyond faith institutions - is a truly powerful one. In Cardiff this moved me so deeply. Grateful that yesterday’s LOUDfence service in Buxton also embodied this powerful reflection.…

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Antonia Sobocki(@ASobocki) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rose CC I know someone somewhere has to pray for abusers, but asking a person whose role is to advocate for victims is a boundary issue. Abusers don't get prayers from me. I am here for all the people who have been directly and indirectly harmed but their choices. I'll pray for victims.

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Patricia Debney(@PatriciaDebney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This article out today abt the LOUDfence we held 7 April in Wheeling, WV. There is hope, & a centring of survivors in the Church & elsewhere. We are being heard. Thank you & ⁦Antonia Sobocki⁩ for all you bring to our lives. thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID…

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Peter Collins(@PeterCo27756774) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Absolutely tragic, he’s a wonderful person and he would be such an amazing gifted priest. I’m holding him in my prayers,

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