MORE ECUMENICAL LOVE AND TOLERANCE!!

Mr. and Mrs. Dowson and family outside their church.

Mr James Dowson described to the English Churchman how he and his wife were attacked when an ecumenical procession on Good Friday was proceeding from the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Chapel to the Church of the Holy Name, Seafar, Glasgow (Scottish Episcopalian) past the front of his own church, the Reformed Evangelical Mission in Fleming road, Cumbernauld. Mr Dowson accompanied by his wife and another woman and six children aged 2-10 years were standing in front of his church. Bible in hand, he protested against ecumenism. Some of the 50 marchers - Roman Catholic and Episcopalian - turned on the protesters. A marcher is said to have seized Mr Dowson by the throat. His wife rushed to his assistance and was sent flying with the cross. Both Mr and Mrs Dowson were now on the floor with their three children screaming. An onlooker told the Sunday Mail "The cross was really big and heavy like two railway sleepers nailed together. When she went down a lot of the marchers walked off in disgust".

Mr Dowson has written a circular letter to the local churches asking for their support. He says, "I am strongly against ecumenism but I would never, never resort to violence ..." more disturbing for us was when we contacted Father Pat Osborn of the Sacred Heart Chapel ... he rasped at us, 'quote' - 'You all deserved it' ".

NUN CONVICTED OF RAPING GIRL AGED 10

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Michael Devine in Dublin

An order of nuns today said they were devasted by the crime of a former member of their community, convicted of raping a young girl in her care.

Nora Watt (51) formerly Sister Dominic of the Sisters of Mercy, will be sentenced next month.

She was convicted by a 10-2 majority verdict by a jury of eight men and four women after five hours of deliberation. Her, co-accused, Paul McCabe (50) a homeless man who had a room at the care centre in Cappoquin, Co Waterford, where Watt was in charge, was also found guilty of raping the girl. Both were remanded on bail pending sentencing.

The offences took place between January 1987 and December 1988 when the girl was 10 years old. The victim, who broke down in tears as the verdict was announced, claimed that the nun held her by the ankles and looked on as the man raped her. She also told the court that the ex-nun used to get into her bed, caress her private parts,and kiss her.

Another resident of the care centre, a woman who is now 26 years old, said she witnessed the rape. Watt said in evidence that she never had any sexual contact with any of the children in the home.

After the verdict, the Sisters of Mercy issued a statement of apology to the victim and urged anyone else who had been abused while in the Order's care to come forward.

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"There is no city under the sun which has so clear a title to Catholic blood guiltiness as Rome. The guilt of the blood shed under the heathen emperors has not been removed under the popes, but hugely multiplied. Nor is Rome accountable only for that which has been shed in the city but for that shed in all the earth. For at Rome under the pope, as well as under heathen emperors, were the blood orders and edicts given, and where ever the blood of holy men was shed, there were the grand rejoicing for it. And what immense quantities of blood has been shed by her agents. Charles IX of France in his letter to Gregory XIII boasts that in and not long after the massacres of Paris, he had destroyed seventy thousand Huguenots. Some have computed that from the year 1518 to 1548, fifteen millions of Protestants have perished by war and inquisition! This may be overcharged, but certainly the number of them in those thirty years, as well as since, is almost incredible. To these we may add innumerable martyrs in ancient, middle, and late ages, in Bohemia, Germany, Holland, France, England, Ireland, and many other parts of Europe, Africa and Asia." - Notes on the New Testament.