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View Post: dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Dublin clergy-abuse report released.
10 hours ago by Grant Gallicho  
While most of us were gorging ourselves yesterday, Ireland was busy digesting a government report on their own clergy sexual-abuse scandal. Its verdict? Over a period of thirty years, diocesan authorities systematically covered up ...
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View Post: Cranmer: Mass child sex abuse: 'the structures and rules of the ...
20 hours ago by Archbishop Cranmer  
Remember these four faces, for these are they who handled allegations of child abuse against 46 priests. Not one; not a singular rogue of depraved morality, but FORTY SIX priests who were known to be sexually abusing the children in ...
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View Post: Deep Thoughts: Catholic sexual abuse in Ireland
10 hours ago by Mojoey  
The commission found that three archbishops of Dublin — John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) — did not tell police about clerical abuse cases, instead opting to avoid public scandals by ...
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View Post: Sexual abuse: church now needs money…
16 hours ago by noreply@blogger.com (Alessandro)  
1993 – Pope writes to US bishops – “I share your sadness and disappointment” – but points out that the child sex abuse problem concerns only a small group of priests. His spokesman, Dr Navarro-Valls, sums up the Vatican attitude: “One ...
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View Post: Ireland's Archbishops 'Covered Up Abuse to Protect Church's ...
9 hours ago by Ralph Bernardo  
The damning verdict on the conduct of church and secular authorities followed a three-year investigation into allegations of child abuse by priests in Dublin going back to the 1960s. Investigators who were given access to 60000 previous ...
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View Post: Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Report: Irish Catholic Church Kept ...
10 hours ago by editor@truthdig.com  
2009/11/27 - According to a newly released report commissioned by the Irish government, the Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic authorities in Ireland kept hundreds of complaints concerning the sexual abuse of children by members ...
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View Post: Church in Dublin "obsessively" hid child abuse - CathNews
26 Nov 2009
"The Dublin Archdiocese's pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid-1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, ...
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