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政府と18の宗教団体（修道会？ ordersが英語表記。中世史をやっていると脊髄反応で「修道会」としてしまうのだが）が半々で被害者への補償をすることをConference of Religious of Ireland（アイルランドの宗教会議）のJustice（判事？　裁判官？）のショーン・ヒーリー神父（カトリックにおける尊称がよく分からない。タイトルはFather）が主張。また、加害者はちゃんと起訴されて刑務所に入れろとも言っている。蔵相は加害者団体は金を出すだけでその使い道については口を出すな、それは政府が決める、とのこと。首相はちゃんと出すようにと宗教団体に要請。ダブリン大司教はダブリン司教区（大司教管区？）で支援してもいいとしている。
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-will-decide-how-extra-funds-for-abused-are-spent-1753166.html

ちょっとよく分からないのだが、今年また下院選挙？　どちらにしても今年大々的に選挙がある模様で、これも事態解決によく働くかもしれない。前回の選挙で勝ちはしたが与党は前大統領の黒いうわさのせい（実際これで勝利して数ヶ月後に辞任したわけだし）で特に都心部でかなり負けていたから、人気取りであろうとなんであろうと、世論に従った動きをする、ことを期待。

補償というのはadditional（追加）、という形容詞が付いているのだが、2002年の時点で時の教育相がサインをした補償に更に追加して、ということのようだ。司法長官に、この時点での決定を協議し直すことが法的に可能かどうか内閣が確認中。どうでもよいが例のアハーン元首相が「教会金無いから無理じゃね？」と言っている模様。そういう問題じゃないだろうか頭湧いてんじゃないのか？　与党の首を更に絞める気なんだろうか、それとも単に冷静に現状を把握した意見なんだろうか。国は10億ユーロの追加補償を決めたようだが、一方で教会側は１億2800万ユーロしか払っていない。政府はすでに１億4000万ユーロを払っているのにだ。そこで上記の記事のような話になっているわけか。例えばダブリン大司教とか。

Angry laity won't pay for the religious who preyed

Now is the time for ordinary Catholics and good priests to make their voices heard by demanding a national Church assembly
怒りの平信徒(laity)は食い物にした教団（修道士？）にお金を払うことはしないだろう
いまこそ一般のカトリック信徒と善良な聖職者たちがアイルランドの教会集会を求めて声を上げるべき時だ

これが一般的な信徒さんの態度、と取っていいのだろうか。ここまでが記事の見出、以下が本文。長いが少なくとも始めの部分が非常に興味深いので、折々訳してみるか。金と、アイルランドという国と、教皇及び教皇庁の関係。現代の話とは思えない。13世紀のヨーロッパを見てるみたいだよ、アイルランド。
訳に多少なりとも悪意がにじみ出てしまっていることは避けられない自分。

近年まで平信徒の役割とは「祈り、払い、従う」ことだとはよく言われていたことだ。ローマにおられる教皇と、自らの邸宅におられる司教と、自らの館におられる修道会にふさわしい、服従した国家では。
この三つの命令のうち、経済的賦課金をローマに支払うことはアイルランドカトリック教会の近年の歴史で最も検証することの無かった点である。
しかしこの金の流れは教皇庁の金庫を満たしてきたことが明らかとなってきている。
かつての長い貧困に苦しんできた国家において、そこから国民は群れをなして移住し、多くの家族はその生活を移住者からの送金に頼ってきたが、このような金のかなりが毎年のペテロ献金の形で、すでにすばらしくお金持ちなヴァティカンに、アイルランドに残った人たちがその忠実な信仰に留まっていることによって払われてきた。
それに対して、教皇は、あるいは教皇庁の手下たち、すなわちヴァティカンの役人（？）たちはアイルランドのカトリック教徒たちの寛大さを教皇がどれほどお喜びかを伝える手紙を送ることによって司教たちを褒め称えるだけであった。

Until recent times it was famously said that the role of the laity was "to pray, pay and obey", a state of submission that suited the Pope in Rome, the bishops in their palaces and the religious orders in their mansions.

Of these three commands, paying financial dues to Rome has been the least examined aspect of the recent history of the Irish Catholic Church.

But it has proved to be a money trail that has filled many a papal coffer.

In the long early decades of an impoverished State, from which its people were emigrating in droves, and many a family dependent on their survival for remittances from emigrants, the bulk of this money was sent by the remaining loyal faithful at home to an already fabulously rich Vatican in the form of the annual Peter's Pence collections.

In return, the Holy Father, or his minions in the Curia, the Vatican's civil service, would flatter bishops by sending them parchments telling them how grateful the Holy Father was for the generosity of Irish Catholics.

Bishops would purr, priests would boast and the docile lay folk in the pews would feel proud of their special place in the affections of the reigning pontiff.

This delusion of Ireland having a special relationship with the Holy See was shattered when an Irish ambassador in Washington reported back to the Government in Dublin the shocking news that he had visited the ailing Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing, who told him that "Rome does not give a damn about Ireland -- it does not have money."

This one-way money trail from Ireland to Rome is not going to be reversed today if the Dail unites in a solemn appeal to Rome to bail out the religious orders by picking up the additional tab, and helping pay for a bill that will exceed by far the €128m cap on their contribution specified under the infamous 2002 indemnity deal.

With that final bill heading for over €1bn in compensation to clerical abuse victims, it is wishful thinking on the part of the Greens leader, John Gormley, that Pope Benedict will send a cheque in the post via the apostolic nuncio resident in Dublin. No Michaelangelo painting is going to be sold to help compensate the former inmates of Goldenbridge, Artane or Daingean.

The solution to an Irish financial problem will have to come from within Ireland. So far the Government is reluctant to renegotiate the 2002 deal because it can only be revised if the 18 religious orders consent to "revisit" a legal pact that has been to their undoubted benefit. But public fury is mounting against the declared position of the religious orders.

Tensions have also surfaced in a starkly divided response between the bishops and the orders.

In emergency session yesterday at Maynooth College, Cardinal Sean Brady waded into the dispute, following similar strong-worded advocacies regarding the moral duty of the religious orders to pay more from the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor, and Fr Tim Bartlett, Cardinal Brady's chief aide, as well as from John Gormley.

The outcome of this battle will be crucial in determining the willingness of both the Government and the State to clean up the murky underbellies of a country which claims to be a democracy, but which even today fails to put in place adequate measures to protect children.

Clearly, a fierce turf war is being fought behind the closed doors of Maynooth between the Catholic Bishops Conference and the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI).

Last night, the first engagement between the two feuding ecclesiastical bodies signalled a possible breakthrough in this unseemly wrangle with the unannounced arrival at Maynooth of Sister Marianne O'Connell, director general of CORI.

This is a bit like a major summit being held by the diocesan bishops, as the Church's governing politbureau, and Sr O'Connell, who is playing the part of a UN general assembly of religious -- answerable only to Rome, and not to the bishops.

Sr O'Connell came to Maynooth directly from CORI's private meeting on the southside of Dublin with a package of "options" outside of a non-renegotiable indemnity deal.

But Sr O'Connell may not have a good poker hand to play, as the Christian Brothers and many other religious bodies have put their schools and colleges into trusts, and do not appear to have cash resources. Orders like the Jesuits and the Holy Ghosts are not party to the indemnity.

One partial solution may be the offering of scholarships to the children of abuse victims, and resources for counselling -- as suggested by Cardinal Brady and Archbishop Martin.

On the other hand, the religious orders may continue to play hard ball with the bishops and demand that they put their hands where their mouths have been in recent days -- by raiding their episcopal exchequers or by selling diocesan land and fine buildings.

Another view taking hold of an angry public is a plague on both your houses.

Rather than looking to Rome or Maynooth for a solution to cure this ungodly mess, now is the time for ordinary Catholics and good priests to make their voices heard by demanding the convening of a national Church assembly on accountable, transparent and democratic lines.

A lay revolt against the old habit of pay, pray and obey may be stirring.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/angry-laity-wont-pay-for-the-religious-who-preyed-1750511.html

この問題とは関係ないが、こうやってがんばっている修道会もあるのだ。

Vincent de Paul spending €1 million per week

The Vincent de Paul are spending over €1 million a week responding to appeals from families in financial difficulty, it was revealed this afternoon

Most are looking for help with food and energy bills.（以下略）
http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/vincent-de-paul-spending-euro1-million-per-week-1753062.html

聖バンザン・ド・ポール修道会（、でいいのうだろうか）は経済的困難に陥った人たちの援助のために週に100マンユー路を費やしている、と。アイルランドの経済状況の悪化が見て取れる・・・。