https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1005/1250791-france-catholic-church/

I was brought to France between 11-12 by a pedophile religious vocations director. He was a former headmaster of many De La Salle schools in the Dublin and Wicklow regions. He got access to me through my national school in Longford, about a year and a half after a violent family tragedy involving my brother and father which the Longford Leader described my house as the 'House of Fear' in 1976, after my brother's not guilty acquittal-unanimous verdict.

I was just gone nine years old at the time of this incident, the year previously in 1975, when my older brother Eamonn was protecting me and my mother from the blows of my father.

My brother died a sad premature death at 58 in 2017.

My father Peter even up to the time of his premature death in his mid-to late 40s had shown such a penchant for a toxic pattern of violence and yes rape in our home over decades.

He ran amok and caused absolute mayhem in my home until this tragedy in 75.

And then arrived shortly after, into my catholic school, a holy man from a French religious order.

I thought he was my rescuer at 11, a man who filled my young head with the wildest transcendent thought, 'that I was handpicked by God to save the world.'

I was on fire with excitement with that kind of magic purpose in my spine. I had no idea or suspicion that this man was in fact a pedophile, when he directly sexually abused in the Longford Arms after months of pre-determined grooming and mind games and thought control.

Up to that point of meeting this prematurely ageing man at 67, I had always sought refuge in the church, as did my mum, for solace and space, from harm's way; to light candles, to go to mass; to go to confession; to serve as a boy server; to attend benediction; to pray the rosary; to sing at charismatic renewal groups and choirs; to attend nine day novenas.

So the vocations director was largely stepping up this social engineering template, already well woven in my ritualised head from my earlier socialisation from the 1960s/1970s.

Jumping ahead, in 2017, the French order De La Salle came under the spotlight for the very first time in Ireland - north and south of Ireland, and the findings and audits were damning leading to censure - the latter a meaningless concept.

They got way and have since moved their fiscal HQ operations to Rome, the main architects of their global fund management of ethos capital live there.

CBIS Global is such a significant fund set up the De La Salle Brothers in the US from the early 1980s and now enjoys worldwide reach with significant assets that it manages with its well-heeled partners.

The De La Salle Order have a feared reputation when it comes to dealing with their legacy across the world.

In ROI Ireland alone, in the 2017 audit 76 of their number had claims against them out of a total of 232 recorded, primarily sexual and physical violence against young minors.

They still memorialise and eulogise and even defend the egregious ones.

The Christian Brothers blame the De La Salle Order for the shift in their methods of teaching toward harsh corporal punishment in the early 19th century prior to Catholic Emancipation. The former refer to a meeting with the French order where they were informed on how to control unruly and disobedient youth.

And combined, both these orders really did stream kids into categories. But that wasn't just them that did that.

The mid 19th Century in Ireland saw a major influx of French Religious orders, largely because the French were truly done with these order after the French revolution, launching a full front assault on their age-old clerical powers from the ancien regime.

Even prior to this, "during the anti-clericalism of the Enlightenment, as evident in Voltaire's gibe "Ecrasez L'infame" (destroy the infamy, i.e. the Catholic Church and in Diderot's macabre proposition that liberty would not come to Europe until the last king was strangled by the entrails of the last priest" (cited by Thomas Albert Howard 2017)

By the way, I do not support any kind of violence against the clerical estate.

I will conclude by saying nearly everywhere the De La Salle Order went and roamed, nearly 18%-22% of their numbers were recorded as pretty much psychopathic by institutional inquiries (US/AUS/CANADA/UK/NI/ROI).

I honestly do not know how an organisation can get away with so much crime and be so arid and toxic to deal with directly.

Again its the state (the taxpayer) that is left picking up the tab for redress though the taxpayer and state have been equally defensive and legalistic and rote like in dealing with these crimes, making an absolute mockery of Article 3 and Article 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights by virtue of our EU membership.

Even the Grand Chamber in Strasburg has come up so short in grasping the kettle of the state/church fusion from our recent history, creating separations of thought re authority where none actually existed in the monolith (eg. over 90% control of our primary educational landscape), making distinctions on who prior cases were taken against.

Lastly, our bishop in Longford from 1967-81 and during his tenure from the the 80s-to 90s in Down and Conor, was so in favour of De La Salle order and his oversight of them was so biased and feckless. That is not just my finding, rather it was the finding of an esteemed QC judge in Northern Ireland in 2017.

And our Bishop Daly was wedded to Archbishop McQuaid who during the latter's tenure of Dublin removed all blocks to the French De La Salle Order getting a foothold in Dublin. Read Prof Tom Inglis (2012) harrowing account of what this meant for him in his schooling, among many others.

Regarding how I got to France, at 11-12, this treat was the precursor of grooming and our local Bishop, Cahal B. Daly whose own father was trained up by the De La Salle Brothers in Waterford to be a teacher and his son who went on to be the Primate of All-Ireland and a Cardinal was very favourably disposed to the French Teaching Order, just like Archbishop McQuaid in Dublin.

I went with the Vocations Director for the Order who went on to sexually exploit me after we visited the birth place of our Bishop's Cahal favourite saint St Therese of Lisieux in France, prior to my entry to their junior noviciate in Castletown Portlaoise which was to serve as my secondary education as well.

Some legacy https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057533