Sex abuse report shames Irish Catholic Church
The Catholic Church in Ireland covered up widespread allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests for four decades, a damning official report released on Thursday said. Four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to enforce the law, the three-year investigation into the Dublin Archdiocese, the country's largest, found. "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, and the preservation of its assets," the report said. It added: "All other considerations, including the welfare...
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