Last week, the Catholic Church in Ireland was unceremoniously catapulted into the news headlines by yet another report that detailed its shameful involvement in child abuse. A report last May1 had shocked the world by detailing the scale of such abuse-over the past few decades, more than 30 000 children were raped, beaten, and molested by priests and nuns in Catholic-church-run schools and orphanages. On Nov 26, the publication of another report2 showed how Catholic Bishops in Dublin repeatedly ignored the perpetrators' despicable actions so as not to damage the Church's reputation. As if the collusion of Bishops was not bad enough, senior police officers were also complicit in these crimes by handing any complaints of abuse on to the Archdiocese instead of investigating them further. And the victims of the abuse are to be dishonoured once again, as no one involved in the corrupt cover-up will be prosecuted.
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