Comments on: Safeguarding “direction of travel” is not a destination

By: jameshardy

jameshardy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:34:32 +0000

WILLI case is covered in around 20 posts by Mike Garde (see Dialogue Ireland website).

Rev William James Stewart case is well worthy of study.

Thank God, for how the actions of Mike Garde forced the removal of WILLI from Norwich diocese.

Opinion – 4 March 2026 | Thinking Anglicans — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:00:18 +0000

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jameshardy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:36:04 +0000

Medicine had its Shipman moment. UK death reporting and GMC practice had to change. We saw pretty rapid results.

With Anglicanism, across the UK and Ireland, we see the opposite.

PRIEST SHEPHERD FRIEND is the ending on a notorious clerical abuser’s tombstone by the Archbishop of Armagh’s Cathedral seat.

Does the Irish equivalent of the Archbishop of Canterbury have absolutely no sense of shame?

A senior cleric contacted me last year, and alleged how the Archbishop celebrated the abuser in a press statement!

This was before newspapers-BBC-courts exposed a hidden scandal with the late ‘Reverend Canon Dr William George Neely’.