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Blessed Sunday - buona domenica - feliz domingo - bon dimanche - einen gesegneten Sonntag - bom domingo do Senhor!
Holy Trinity Church
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Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@justbegemma
Int’l Multi Award Winning Author, Humanitarian & Global Speaker. Founder @pathwaysnl & @acts_canada, President @endclergyabuse. (they/them)
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Katılım Ekim 2017
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Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ retweetledi
The role of Irish immigrants for the presence and practice of Catholic faith in Newfoundland 🇨🇦
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So honoured to have you here, @hans_zollner. Such a meaningful series of events. I’m still taking in the enormity of it all. As both a survivor and an advocate, my heart has been broken many times as a result of this crisis, but just as often been held. ❤️🩹
Thanks for the critical work you and your team at @iadcpug continue to do. I’m looking forward to building on what we’ve started here during your visit to my beloved city and province. 🙏
#Safeguarding #GroundZero #StJohns #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
Hans Zollner SJ@hans_zollner
Impressions and thoughts about my recent meetings, conferences and workshops in Canada. #SafeguardingOurCommitment
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@hans_zollner Thank you! It was a transformative week, made even more special by your presence. 💪🙏
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Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ retweetledi
Thanks for organizing all of this @justbegemma
It's important to get the message out.
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Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@justbegemma
At #GroundZero in St. John’s, @hans_zollner speaks with @CdnPressNews in front of the #MountCashel memorial. The two posts behind him, remnants of the original entrance, stand like gravestones. So much was buried here before brave survivors spoke out and changed everything. I ended my month long 938k walk across Newfoundland at this site in summer 2015 to pay homage to those men - my heroes! 1/4 @pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @iadcpug, @Pontifex #Safeguarding #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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Grateful to Bailey Howard @NTVNewsNL for the thoughtful piece highlighting @hans_zollner’s visit to St. John’s.
It was a busy and impactful week, and every effort to spread the word helped make it a success. 4/4
@pathwaysnl @ENDCLERGYABUSE @iadcpug
#Safeguarding #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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@CBCNL @hans_zollner @pathwaysnl @ENDCLERGYABUSE @iadcpug In studio @VOCMNEWS in St. John’s
with @hans_zollner. Thanks also to Tim Powers for having me back on his radio show while Hans was in town to talk about our events. 3/4
@pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @iadcpug
#Safeguarding #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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At #GroundZero in St. John’s, @hans_zollner speaks with @CdnPressNews in front of the #MountCashel memorial. The two posts behind him, remnants of the original entrance, stand like gravestones. So much was buried here before brave survivors spoke out and changed everything. I ended my month long 938k walk across Newfoundland at this site in summer 2015 to pay homage to those men - my heroes! 1/4
@pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @iadcpug, @Pontifex
#Safeguarding #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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Thank you @iadcpug and @hans_zollner for this recognition. The horrific abuse of children and vulnerable individuals by priests, nuns, and brothers in #NewfoundlandAndLabrador reverberated globally when the brave survivors of #MountCashel came forward over 4 decades ago. The Hughes Inquiry and Winter Commission findings remain foundational and relevant today. Education and collaboration are essential to preventing abuse, and we look forward to continuing this crucial work together.
@pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @Pontifex
#Safeguarding #GroundZero 🇨🇦
Institute of Anthropology (IADC)@iadcpug
Father @hans_zollner reflects on his recent trip to Canada, where he had the opportunity to meet with survivors and safeguarders. The country - particularly Newfoundland - is the “ground zero” of news about sexual and physical abuse in the Catholic Church.
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The work that Hans and his team do @iadcpug inspired me. I’m grateful for the support that brought this course to life, especially Drs. Patricia Dold, Michelle Rebidoux, and Barry Stevenson @memorialhss. Dr. Rebidoux has been exceptional in guiding students through the material. Great work all!
Hans also met with faculty from @MemorialU’s Dept. of Religion & Culture and Queen’s Theological College to explore future collaboration. Education is essential to naming, confronting, and preventing clergy abuse. Photos included. 3/3
@pathwaysnl @ENDCLERGYABUSE
#Safeguarding #GroundZero #MountCashel #Belvedere #EducationMatters #NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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The idea for the course came after Hans invited me to guest lecture at the Pontifical Gregorian University’s @iadcpug. What my province endured, and the findings of the Winter Commission and Hughes Inquiry,
warrant academic engagement at both local and global levels.
As a clergy abuse survivor with a background in Religious Studies and graduate research in Gender Studies on institutional religious abuse, this work is deeply personal. 2/3
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@hans_zollner getting ready to guest lecture in the new university course co-created by Dr. Michelle Rebidoux and I on the sex abuse crisis in the Church. Obviously a few of his articles made it to the syllabi. 👌
Launched this semester and offered at Queen’s Theological College (3656Q/3556Q) and @MemorialU (RELS 3660), the course is a first for a Canadian university. So proud! 1/3
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@hans_zollner and I had a great time hanging out at St. Bonaventure’s College in St. John’s with Grades 10–12 students and their teachers. Next level engagement. Way to rock it, gang! 🤘
When young people have access to knowledge and open conversation, they gain the tools to transform difficult histories into stronger, safer foundations for the future. Empowering youth is how we plant the seeds of lasting change. 🌱
@pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @Pontifex
#Safeguarding #GroundZero #YouthEmpowerment
#NewfoundlandAndLabrador 🇨🇦
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@gardnerstuart39 I completely understand that. Everyone has their own time and way of deciding if or when they share their experience.
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@justbegemma For some they wish to keep it private as something that has happened to them they sort this privacy in their own time if even if they want to tell another.
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I think this important no matter how difficult it is for some people to attend such a service. It must take some thought to organise a service like this sensitively.
Gemma M. Hickey 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@justbegemma
We held a poignant ecumenical reflection service in St. John’s at the chapel of Queen’s Theological College for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Clergy from multiple denominations participated in solidarity without vestments. A counsellor was present for support. I shared a reflective poem on Psalm 9:9–10 and my friend @hans_zollner offered a powerful homily on the same verse. 1/4
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I absolutely do. As someone who is both a survivor and one of the organizers of these events, I know that not everyone is able to participate in spaces like this. That’s understandable. For some, attending is helpful. For others, just knowing that these things are happening can matter in its own way.
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@justbegemma I think it may be even helpful for people who have sadly had experience of such abuse but for their own reasons don't want to participate but knowing something is being done on a spiritual level if you see what I mean.
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Moving forward will require the steady work of rebuilding trust, one honest act at a time, and the choice to stay at the table together. I know what it feels like to be left out. My table will not be set for a few. It’s wide enough for disagreement, repair, and return. All are welcome wherever I am.
With gratitude to the faculty at Queen’s Theological College, to my friends pictured: Dr. Patricia Dold, Dr. Michelle Rebidoux, and @hans_zollner; to everyone who attended and participated in this service. Your presence counts. Let’s keep showing up for one another! 4/4
@pathwaysnl, @ENDCLERGYABUSE, @Pontifex
#Safeguarding #GroundZero #MountCashel #Belvedere #SurvivorVoices #ClergyAccountability #Community #Partnerships #Hope ❤️🩹
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We wrote intentions for the future and lit candles for survivors we have lost, especially those whose lives were tragically cut short. Seeing Will Hiscock, a lawyer for survivors, and Archbishop Hundt light a candle together was the salve my heart didn’t know it needed. I am so proud of us!
#NewfoundlandAndLabrador continues to live with the consequences of clergy sexual abuse, including the ongoing bankruptcy process. I’m pictured here with Will and Bob Buckingham, another lawyer for survivors in St. John’s, at the reception following the service. 3/4
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We held a poignant ecumenical reflection service in St. John’s at the chapel of Queen’s Theological College for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Clergy from multiple denominations participated in solidarity without vestments. A counsellor was present for support. I shared a reflective poem on Psalm 9:9–10 and my friend @hans_zollner offered a powerful homily on the same verse. 1/4
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