Irish Church accused of abuse cover-up

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A damning report into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse.

The report investigated how Church and state authorities handled allegations of child abuse against 46 priests.

It found that the Church placed its own reputation above the protection of children in its care.

It also said that state authorities facilitated the cover-up by allowing the Church to operate outside the law.

Reacting to the report, the current Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said "no words of apology would ever be sufficient" and offered "to each and every survivor, my apology, my sorrow and my shame for what happened to them".

He added that the "many good priests of the archdiocese" shared his sense of shame.

The "Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin" covered a period from 1975 to 2004.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8381119.stm

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That is a deep shame to hear that the Church has covered this kind of horrible thing up. I'm Roman Catholic myself; but it's just terrible how these things continue to happen. Very few priests are actually like this; but the few that are cause so much damage because they are transfered from perish to perish. It's disgusting and horrific.
I am very good friends with a priest; he would never, ever do anything as horrific as some of these priests have done. It's terrible that such awful people seem to represent all priests, when it isn't the case.