Posted on 02/24/2008 6:06:43 AM PST by Gamecock
The ex-lover of a former spokesman for the Catholic Church was rushed into an abortion by the man and his mother, the High Court was told yesterday.
Moyra Bremner, a writer, said she was "horrified" to return from a holiday to India in 1989 and hear that her daughter, Siobhan, then aged 26, who had become pregnant by Austen Ivereigh, had gone through with the abortion.
"I felt even more horrified when I heard that Austen and his mother had taken her. I felt that they had rushed her into it," Mrs Bremner said.
She added that she had "absolutely no part" in her daughter's decision, did not know where the operation was taking place and did not pay towards it.
Mr Ivereigh, 41, who later became head of public affairs for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, claims that Siobhan Vitelli, a divorcee who was then a fellow graduate student at Oxford, had the abortion against his wishes at Mrs Bremner's insistence.
He is suing over an article in the Daily Mail in June 2006 which, he says, falsely presented him as a cad and a hypocrite, and cost him his £46,000-a-year job.
He strongly disputes claims by Mrs Vitelli and another woman, who cannot be named, that he failed to support them when they became pregnant and put them in a position where they felt they had no choice but to abort.
Associated Newspapers denies libel, and says the story is true.
Mrs Bremner said she had repeatedly tried to get Mr Ivereigh to make a firm commitment to provide for the child.
"I also wanted to know he was prepared to make an emotional commitment. My children had been without a father and I didn't want to see that happen to my grandchild," she said.
"Every time I asked him a straight question, he came up with an evasive answer." She said Mr Ivereigh's mother, Della, was also evasive. "I felt her main concern was the well-being of her son and that he should be able to carry on his masters and have the career he wanted."
The hearing continues.
Ping
I'm lost why this a ping-the-swarm story.
The swarm wasn’t pinged. Just a few observers.
It seems to me that if an article of one's faith is that the Pope is the anti-christ du jour and the Church is the ho' of Babble-on, it's going to be reassuring to wallow in any muck which might possibly be construed as supporting those notions.
You gotta get your kicks where you can. Some folks can't enjoy life if they're not putting others down -- for their own good and that of the lurkers, of course ...
What I say to you I say to all:
Just because some of us see eye-to-eye on doctrinal views, can't we be pinged to other interesting topics? There isn't anything here that is detrimental to the Catholic Church. It looks as though they fired the bum. And a Google will bring up websites of Catholics who believe in abortion contrary to the official teachings of Roman.
Don't be so suspicious.
Perhaps an article that confuses us less about the facts in controversy.
>> There isn’t anything here that is detrimental to the Catholic Church. It looks as though they fired the bum. And a Google will bring up websites of Catholics who believe in abortion contrary to the official teachings of Roman. <<
I was curious if you were reading something into this story, but I asked, rather than making an accusation. As for me, I don’t get it (why it’s interesting), but I don’t need to.
Anyway, dangus, best regards to you, my fellow unelected.:)
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