WeR0206 - Please Read about the Catholic Church and the Servants of the Paraclete:
The clinic, often referred to as Stroud, is run by an American order, the Servants of the Paraclete, established in New Mexico in the 1940s. The order opened Our Lady of Victory, its only British centre, in the 1960s. The clinic offers "therapy in a spiritual context".
It is believed that up to 30 residents stay there, usually for a year to 18 months. They tend to be referred by their bishops or other senior clergy.
Michael Hill, the priest jailed for five years in 1997 for indecent assaults on children, was once there but left after three months. He was appointed chaplain at Gatwick in the 1980s by Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, now Archbishop of Westminster but then bishop of Arundel and Brighton, despite complaints that he had been a risk to children.
A sample of priests who sent there:
Between 1995 and 1999, 21 Catholic priests were convicted of sexual offences against children. Reported sex cases include:
1996: Durham priest Adrian McLeish jailed for six years after admitting 12 charges of child abuse
1997: Michael Hill, a former Gatwick chaplain, jailed for five years for indecent assault and gross indecency over a 19-year period
1998: Eric Taylor jailed for seven years for abusing boys in his care at the Father Hudson Society's home in Warwickshire, between 1957 and 1965
1998: John Lloyd , press officer to the Archbishop of Cardiff, jailed for eight years for indecent assaults against children
2000: Joe Jordan , a Cardiff priest, jailed for eight years for sexually abusing boys
2000: Investigation at a leading Catholic school, the London Oratory . Pupils alleged they were abused by David Martin , a priest who died of a suspected Aids-related illness in 1998
2000: Robert Deadman , a Cistercian monk who offered spiritual healing to women, convicted of indecently assaulting four women. The jury heard he carried out attacks in the confessional
2001: Allegations of torture, beatings and sexual molestation at St Ninian's school in Stirlingshire