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JRR Tolkien's Son Part of UK Inquiry Into Catholic Church Mishandling Child Sex Abuse Allegations
The top Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.K. is set to face pressing questions over the way the church has handled child sex abuse allegations, including over the clergy son of JRR Tolkien.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, is set to be questioned this week by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, The Telegraph reported.
The investigation will look into how major British institutions tackled sex abuse claims, with the Catholic Church attracting major controversy for relocating abusing priests in dioceses around the world.
Nichols' former Archdiocese of Birmingham is set to be examined, including how it handled allegations of abuse against Father John Tolkien, the son of famous author JRR Tolkien, who wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fantasy novels.
Senior church officials are being blamed for allowing Fr. Tolkien, who died in 2003, to continue working as a priest despite an alleged victim coming forward against him years earlier.
The man, Christopher Carrie, accused the priest of sexually abusing him twice in November 1956, when he was 11-years-old.
As BBC News reported back in 2003, the Archdiocese of Birmingham awarded Carrie £15,000, or nearly $20,000 USD, in an out-of-court settlement.
Fr. Tolkien had denied the allegations, and a police investigation launched against him in 2001 was discontinued, as the Crown Prosecution Service found him to be too ill to be charged. The priest died two years later at the age of 85.
Carrie, a father of two, said at the time that the church needs to answer for protecting Fr Tolkein.
"Although Father John Tolkien is now dead, and cannot harm any more children, that does not exempt the church from responsibility or liability.
"I am satisfied that the settlement is substantial enough to recompense me for some of the wrongs committed," he continued.
"More importantly, I hope the coverage given to the case may encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward."
Carrie further revealed that church officials had promised him in 1993 that Fr. Tolkien was set to shortly retire as a priest, but he continued actively officiating in church services at least until the mid 1990s.
The scandals rocking the Catholic Church have been felt worldwide, including in the U.S. A Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed in August how 301 priests abused over 1,000 children over the past several decades, with church hierarchy shielding the perpetrators.
"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing. They hid it all," said at a press conference Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Pope Francis has scheduled a major four-day conference on the clerical sexual abuse crisis with his top bishops in Rome for February 2018. The meeting, believed to be the first of its kind, comes following the pontiff's condemnation of the clergy who have been committing abuse, and vow that the Catholic Church will do better.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/11/britains-senior-catholic-faces-questions-churchs-handling-child/
England's most senior Catholic clergyman faces embarrassment this week when he appears before an inquiry to answer claims he ignored child sex abuse allegations against his priests, including the son of JRR Tolkien.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, is to give evidence in person to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which is investigating how a number of key institutions in Britain handled sex abuse claims.
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NOMOCHOMO ago
Damn it. Now I have to side-eye JRR Tolkien too?
Hobbits look like children, and are often mistaken for kids in the books.... They're constantly being recruited by Gandalf, an old-ass wizard.
The ring keeps them from aging.
Anybody think Tolkien Mythology might have been a proto-MK-Ultra style normalizing of close relationships between unrelated young and old?
think- ago
I think this is quite a stretch, @NOMOCHOMO. This is about his son, not Tolkien himself.
NOMOCHOMO ago
The apple doesn't fall from the tree. Abuse is often generational.
I'm not saying he is guilty, but if the son is a pedophile, the father should also be scrutinized.
think- ago
Yes, often it is, but the son was educated in Oxford instituations where pedophilia is rampant, and also might have been abused by a priest. We don't know, so I'd be careful to throw Tolkien Sr. under the bus.
NOMOCHOMO ago
JRR Tolkien was also educated at Oxford. So the same could apply to him.
Side-Eying isn't "throwing him under the bus" it's looking at with suspicion
Angelis_Solaris ago
Well you can stop side-eyeing him as there is no way on this earth or in eternity that that man could have ever been a pedophile.
NOMOCHOMO ago
I personally doubt he was, but there is no reason to exclude anybody from our investigations.
truthdemon ago
Soumds like a story a bunch of power hungry group would sell to the goyim...to avoid them looking to control power.. ..tolkein admitted tue stories were based on historical fact .. The hobbits could be a metapjor for the goyim.or sheep...or literally children ..Harry potter is very likely an allegoru of the educarion and programming of deep.state agents in UK grammer and public schools... Grammer comes.from the word magic schools Uk public schools are known to encourage pedophilia.. I have a family friends son in a famous london school...who know who the pedo teachers r ...scary environment ... A lot of the public officers in foreign office ...and othrr important public offices are picked up from these public schools.. .. The teaching is poor to say the least ..is a waste of a parents money..all it does is set up a network to be used later.. A harry potter club..of a brainwashed group of know it alls.. I never see these folks in top science and engineering universities..wouldnt last a week.. ..but u find them in droves in oxford and cambrige ..littluns of the deep state
Angelis_Solaris ago
Sigh I know I say stupid things but here's what I really mean. We should assume his son is innocent until proven guilty. And we should assume he is innocent since no evidence against it has ever been provided. He's the one who helped convert C.S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity, let us not forget. He was a devout Christian himself. There is a left-leaning man named Michael Drought who studied Tolkien immensely, reviewed thousands upon thousands of his personal writings and letters. If he was a pedophile surely it would be indicated in his writings. Listen to the "Of Sorcerers and Men" lecture by Michael Drought for a better understanding of who Tolkien was and why he did what he did.
NOMOCHOMO ago
Thanks for clarifying. I agree about presumed innocence, but as a legal concept only.
Btw: presume is used when you suppose based on probability (it requires some evidence) while assume is used when you suppose without any evidence
I'm not presuming or assuming guilt either, I'm just asking the question.
I definitely will listen to the lecture, thanks for the reccomendation
Angelis_Solaris ago
Ah I see. I stand behind innocent until proven guilty as a philosophical concept perhaps, though I'll probably have to give it more thought now. I never really considered the issue in depth before. Anyway, the lectures go into great detail, mostly about Tolkien's works of fiction but also his life and some of his motivations for his writings.