its a wonder that the vatican walls haven't crumbled yet

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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/the-catholic-clergyrsquos-most-unforgiveable-sin-betrayal-1690570.html


The Catholic clergy’s most unforgiveable sin... betrayal


The Ryan Report showed that thousands of children were abused, raped, assaulted and terrorised over a period of three decades in institutions run by the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland.

Another report into the activities of deviant priests in the Dublin Archdiocese is to be published soon.

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The perpetrators were priests, nuns and Christian Brothers. It seems that every institution run by the church had a number of vile brutes among its throng who preyed on the children.

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Given the scale of the abuses, one wonders how they could have gone undetected so long. The shameful fact is that they were known about. The Church knew that it had thugs and paedophiles in its ranks. It moved them about when there was any chance of detection or scandal.


That, for me as a Catholic, is the most unforgivable sin of all. The Church betrayed the children in its care, it betrayed the congregations who followed the faith and it betrayed all the caring decent priests, nuns and brothers who were not party to any abuses.
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and the next country to step forward and reveal the abuse and ruined lives is?

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1. the vatican's problems will not go away, this story will grow and grow

as the vatican's walls crumble and fall.