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Victims of a former school welfare officer who was convicted of sexual assault have told BBC News NI their school did not do enough to prevent the abuse.

So reads the headline on today’s BBC Northern Ireland website.

It is not the first time a headline of similar import has appeared in the press of recent years. This time it is a reference to events in Lagan College, the much hailed ecumenical answer to every problem in the world of education!

Man-made ‘havens’ provide no safety for children since ‘sinful man’ is the problem in all the world’s difficulties!

It is only as we order our affairs in accordance with the Word of God that we may experience that spoken of by David.

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,” Psalm 23:1-4.

Here is the text of the report that appears on the BBC news site.

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Victims of a former school welfare officer who was convicted of sexual assault have told BBC News NI their school did not do enough to prevent the abuse.

Neil Beckett groomed the schoolgirls and used his position as a welfare officer at Lagan College in Belfast to access vulnerable young women.

He was found guilty on 17 counts and jailed in December. (more…)

Rome is unchanging in its corruptions and perversions.

Spiritually, utterly blind ecumenical writer, Alf McCreary, writes under the headline: ‘The Catholic Church seems to have made a wise choice in Pope Leo XIV’

What a fool the man is and all those who likewise have hailed the arrival of the new pope.

To the day that system is destroyed by Christ, it will remain – “The great whore . . .  with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication,” Revelation 17:1-2.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
10th May 2025

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POPE LEO XIV ‘ACCUSED OF MISHANDLING SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRIESTS IN CHURCHES’

Campaigners have called on the Vatican to ‘conduct a thorough investigation’ into Robert Prevost’s handling of the claims

Bill Bowkett
‘The Standard’
21 hours ago

The new pope has been accused of mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse in his churches in the United States and Peru.

Robert Prevost 69, who will be known as Leo XIV, is said to have failed to properly investigate multiple allegations made against priests. (more…)

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the new pontiff

He tells cardinals in the Sistine Chapel that he hopes his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the “dark nights of this world”

This is one of the headlines that a blinded and beguiled press used to trumpet the arrival of the new occupant to the office in the ‘Roman Catholic Church’, whereby he is henceforth blasphemously named, ‘The Vicar of Jesus Christ’!

For centuries, the occupant of this office has been deemed by Bible-believers as ‘that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God,’ (Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25, Section 6).

That is the proper view of the man who now calls himself ‘Pope Leo XIV’.

The many titles the pope embraces and the claims he makes of himself and his office totally vindicate the use of the Confession of Faith’s definition of him.

He was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost and he is the first North American to be elected pope. Donald Trump, in keeping with his usual fatuous mouthings, called it a ‘great honour’!

Equally deluded is the leader of the Church of Ireland. He is reported in the Belfast Newsletter as declaring that he is ‘rejoicing’ over election of new pope!

But then he is but part and parcel, along with the new pope, of that evil amalgam which is the beginnings of that which will emerge soon as:

‘MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’! (Revelation 17:5)

His opening gambit is in keeping with Rome’s blind arrogance and bloated self-glorification. He states that he hopes that the Catholic Church can bring light to the “dark nights of this world”! (more…)