ABUSE SIGHTINGS
In Dublin, 700 Pages on the Church's Sins
Priests were blatant, notorious abusers, but were allowed to continue without punishment or censure.
By Sarah Lyall
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/world/europe/27ireland.html?
LONDON
The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin, according to a scathing report released Thursday.
The cover-ups spanned the tenures of four Dublin archbishops and continued through to the mid-1990s and beyond, even after the church was beginning to admit to its failings and had professed that it was confronting abuse by its priests.
But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page report, prepared by a group appointed by the Irish government and called the Commission of Investigation Into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
For the Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/world/europe/27ireland.html?
Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
In Dublin, 700 Pages on the Church's Sins
Priests were blatant, notorious abusers, but were allowed to continue without punishment or censure.
By Sarah Lyall
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/world/europe/27ireland.html?
LONDON
The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin, according to a scathing report released Thursday.
The cover-ups spanned the tenures of four Dublin archbishops and continued through to the mid-1990s and beyond, even after the church was beginning to admit to its failings and had professed that it was confronting abuse by its priests.
But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page report, prepared by a group appointed by the Irish government and called the Commission of Investigation Into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
For the Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/world/europe/27ireland.html?
Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
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