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isabella R's List: Roman Catholic Abuse....no words no words no word can describe or ATONE...
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Church relationship with Irish society has itself been abusive - The Irish Times - Sat, Nov 28, 2009
Church relationship with Irish society has itself been abusive\nRelated »\n\n * Pressure mounts on bishops named in abuse report to resign | 28/11/2009\n\nIn this section »\n\n * Deficit is unsustainable but cuts must be seen to be fair\n * Polarisation penetrating US culture\n * Government should stand down shortly\n * Ministers and backbenchers braced for budget backlash\n * 'Mental reservation' and the church's version of truth\n * This Week They Said\n\nFINTAN O'TOOLE\n\nOPINION: The Roman Catholic Church's great achievement in Ireland has been to so disable our capacity to think about right and wrong that parents of abused children apologised for the abusing priest\n\nIN HIS pastoral letter of February 1979, Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Ryan drew attention to the "corruption of the young". And he was quite specific about the forces that were responsible for it. He attacked "the modern era of enlightenment and permissiveness", and stated that "the new frankness and openness in regard to sexual matters had not made people more healthy in mind and body, but less healthy".\n\nThe corollary of Archbishop Ryan's complaint was, of course, that a lack of frankness and openness in sexual matters would make for a healthier society, and would protect the young from corruption. Like the three other holders of the office scrutinised in the Murphy report, Ryan certainly practised the first part of what he preached. He was a great enemy of openness and frankness, and a great practitioner of the arts of evasion and cover-up. It was the second part of the formula - the protection of the young - that gave him trouble.\n\nIn 1981, for example, Ryan sent a Father X as curate to Clogher Road church in the Dublin Corporation housing estate of Crumlin. He knew that this man was a dangerous and manipulative paedophile who was set on attacking children, as Ryan himself noted, "from six to 16". He knew that X cultivated parents who involved themselves in school or parish activities so as to gain access to their ch
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