catholic church Covered Up Child Abuse in Ireland, Panel Find....

[spanone]

what shred of moral high ground does this 'religion' have to talk about anything

DUBLIN (AP) -- Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests to protect the church's reputation, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year investigation.

Abuse victims welcomed the report on the Dublin Archdiocese's mishandling of abuse complaints against its parish priests from 1975 to 2004. It followed a parallel report published in May into five decades of rape, beatings and other cruelty committed by Catholic orders of nuns and brothers nationwide in church-run schools, children's workhouses and orphanages from the 1930s to mid-1990s.

The government said the Dublin investigation ''shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese.''

''The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again,'' the government said, also apologizing for the state's failure to hold church authorities accountable to the law.

The 720-page report -- delivered to the government in July but released Thursday after extensive legal vetting -- analyzes the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/26/world/AP-EU-Ireland-Catholic-Abuse.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[secondwind]

1. I hate nuns and priests....whether they abuse or not, it is hard to differentiate sometimes, so

I JUST HATE THEM ALL..

[spanone]

2. i was raised in the catholic chuch till i was 16.....when i could i left.

i was not abused physically, but the guilt and money pleading ran me off....money, money, money...

[dimpol]

3. pretenders

That's disgusting

[Angry Dragon]

4. This just proves that the church is more interested in saving

the church than souls. In my mind they lose all credibility and then that transfers over to anything else they may promote.

They lose all rights to talk about abortion, gay rights, birth control, etc. When they promote themselves as the true church and then try to destroy people they are not living their faith as their god directed so they are heretics themselves. The ones that try to cover it up are worse then the evil doers themselves. If this is the type of god they promote, one of lies, beating, sex with weaker people, killing, ignorance, arrogance, then why would one want a god like that??

I have no time for a church like this, a church that is more interested in protecting itself than protecting people and souls. It would be my wish for ALL Roman Catholic Church leaders to go to hell for the pain and suffering that they have brought into the world with their ignorance and arrogance.

[Peregrine Took]

5. An institution will do anything to preserve itself.

That's why religion has no business being an institution. I don't think its what Christ ever intended.

[RKP5637]

6. I've never met people that "really" like the catholic church except the severely brainwashed and

those on the take. Any good the catholic church does is far exceeded by the evil they do.