Clerical Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church of England and Wales: A Commentary of child safeguarding (\u3cem\u3eCumberlege Commission, 2007\u3c/em\u3e)

This commentary conducts a review of the child protection management mechanisms developed within the Catholic Church of England and Wales in light of the recommendations made by the Cumberlege Commission (2007). The commentary examines the performance of these mechanisms in order to identify shortcomings and suggest improvements and specifically analyses the response of ecclesiastical administrative authorities to the principle of ‘paramountcy of child safety’ as guaranteed in the Children Act 1989/2004 and Human Rights Act 1998. The commentary concludes that despite the Cumberlege Commission, child protection mechanisms continue to be set within (i) a centuries old clerical mind-set, (ii) closed institutional hierarchical governance, (iii) a secretive clerical culture and (iv) the complicated organisational management structure of the Roman Catholic Church

First Catholic Church of England and Wales safeguarding structure to protect children from Clerical Sexual Abuse: A Commentary on Nolan (2001) till Cumberlege (2007)

The current commentary analyses the Nolan Report (2001) and the Annual Reports (2001-2007) of the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and vulnerable Adults (COPCA) formed as a result of the Nolan Report (2001). The commentary determines how wilfully the Catholic Church of England and Wales responded to the Nolan recommendations. This paper explores the success of this first child-safeguarding model (2001 - 2007) in relation to the deficiencies and structural modifications suggested by the Cumberlege Commission (2007). In conclusion, the commentary identifies a range of shortcomings and difficulties in the establishment of a uniform and secure child protection mechanism within the Catholic Church of England and Wales

A Review of Organizational Laws and Management Policies of the Roman Catholic Church to Address Clerical Child Sexual Abuse in the 20th Century

During the early 1980’s and 1990’s, clerical child sexual abuse (cCSA) in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) gained public attention, escalating into a major scandal by the beginning of the 21st century. The Vatican’s response and ignorance expressed globally created the impression that the RCC had encountered the problem of cCSA for the first time, only recently; in the 20th century. The ecclesiastical authorities sought to justify their strategies of non-reporting of abuse to secular authorities, silencing victims, and transferring abusing priests to other locations, as a result of being surprised and confused by a phenomenon, they had been unaware of. The ‘Nolan Report’ commented that the RCC’s ignorance of pedophilia compounded by a desire to save the reputation of the Church, and a Christian instinct to forgive, led to failures to recognize the extent of abuse, scrutinize candidates for priesthood, and appropriately convey suspicion or proof of alleged misconduct. This paper examines the organizational laws and management policies developed by the RCC in the 20th century to address reported cCSA and highlights the perception of ignorance of the ecclesiastical authorities regarding pedophilia and deviant sexual behaviors amongst clerics as incredulous, in light of historical evidence. Such evidence includes knowledge, awareness, and development of organizational laws and internal institutional management strategies at the highest level of ecclesiastical governance, a continuously developed culture of secrecy, and an organized effort to avoid intervention of secular authorities

A Critical Autoethnography of a Post-Brown Principal’s Effort to Develop African American Students’ Academic Identity and Achievement Orientation

African American male students in the post-Brown era are experiencing both social and academic failure in comparison to African American females and their non-Black peers. African American male students are a student demographic not receiving the most effective forms of school/classroom climate and culture, instruction, school discipline, and teacher-student interactions. As a result, many African American males are not developing a strong identification with school and the motivation necessary to engage in rigorous coursework. The failure to develop academic identity and achievement orientation in African American male students can lead to disengagement with the school in elementary years, higher school dropout rates, lower rates of college enrollment, higher rates of joblessness and poverty, and higher rates of incarceration. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of principal leadership on the development of academic identity and achievement orientation of African American males. This qualitative study represents a first-person narrative of the complexities, interpretations, analysis, and reflections of a post-Brown African American principal developing African American male students’ academic identity and achievement orientation using leadership philosophies and practices derived from a study of principal leadership of all-Black schools during the post-Brown era. The method of research for this qualitative study was autoethnography with the author being both researcher and subject. The major finding from this autoethnography is that principal matters. By designing a child-centered learning environment characterized by high academic and social expectations; effective teaching, including culturally relevant pedagogy; and parent engagement and community partnerships, African American males can develop academic identity and achievement orientation. Principals can be change agents and positively impact school cultures in ways that support African American male students in developing a positive identification of academic pursuits, and with demonstrating ownership of their learning outcomes.Ed.D.College of Education, Health & Human ServicesUniversity of Michigan-Dearbornhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156401/1/Faisal Dissertation with Dedication_Revisions__8-26_2020.pdfDescription of Faisal Dissertation with Dedication_Revisions__8-26_2020.pdf : Dissertatio

Another D in MUDPILES? A Review of Diet-Associated Nondiabetic Ketoacidosis.

Ketogenic diet or very-low-carbohydrate diet gained widespread popularity in the 1990s due to their favorable effects on weight loss and diabetes among others with good short-term safety data. People on ketogenic diets exist in a state of dietary ketosis in which the body production of ketone is equal to consumption and no harmful effects of ketonemia occur. However, in face of stress, the harmless dietary ketosis can lead to profound acid-base disturbances due to massive overproduction of ketone bodies that overwhelms the acid buffer system of the body. A handful of case reports have been published on this topic calling the safety of ketogenic diet into question. In this article, we chronicle a unique case of ketogenic (Atkins) diet-associated ketoacidosis, and we present a comprehensive literature review on the etiology of ketoacidosis

Primary angiosarcoma of breast

Primary breast sarcomas, except for phyllodes tumour, are very rare entities, accounting for \u3c 0.1% of all malignant neoplasms. Angiosarcoma of breast is infrequent malignancy and differential diagnosis from other sarcomatous and angiomatous breast tumours holds importance. Two cases of primary angiosarcoma of breast were encountered. One involved a 32 years lady who was treated by wide local excision and six cycles of chemotherapy. The other occurred in a 54 years old lady who was treated with mastectomy, did not receive any radiation or chemotherapy and was later lost to follow-up. Neither of the patient had history of previous breast surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy