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Boston group releases names of Irish priests it accuses of sexual abuse
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From The Boston Globe (via Steve White).
By revealing the names, the group said it hopes to highlight the issue of immigrant Irish priests who are known pedophiles and whose histories of alleged abuse have long been “outsourced’’ to the United States.
It said news from Ireland serves as a painful reminder to survivors.
BishopAccountability.org has a database of 3,000 names of accused priests and said roughly a third are linked to Ireland, which is reeling from revelations of a decades-long coverup of abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. Four Irish bishops resigned this month as news unfolded.
In a statement yesterday, the Boston Archdiocese said it remains committed to doing “everything in our power to protect children from the threat of sexual abuse.’’
“Bishops [in Ireland], just like bishops here, have been moving accused priests around, even though they know they are dangerous,’’ said Terence McKiernan of BishopAccountability.org. “Unfortunately the places where they put them include our own backyard. So the Irish crisis, basically, has become our crisis, too.’’
Standing before the Cathedral of the Holy Cross yesterday, members and supporters of the group said the Irish scandal is deeply linked to the US abuse crisis because priests trained in Irish seminaries are systematically sent to serve in America, including clergy with long histories of abuse.
They also called on Prime Minister Brian Cowen of Ireland to recognize his country’s responsibility to inform the American public of all child-molesting clergy from Irish dioceses and religious orders who have immigrated to US dioceses.
Never do these ‘quote a big lump of text and leave it at that’ posts but am making an exception.
Telling, isn’t it, that Austria aside, all of the major Catholic Church child sex scandals that spring to mind come from places with large Irish Immigrant populations? I’m thinking of Boston and Sydney in particular.
this is the fuller article from http://www.bishop-accountability.org/irish_priests_in_us/ with all the names
they created a database of public and court accused celrical abusers
see their methods
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/db_overview.htm
along with this book on the irish involvement http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Tragedy-Priests-Cripple-Catholic/dp/0979027985/ Investigative reporter Joe Rigert’s search for the roots of the Catholic sex-abuse scandals led him to Ireland, where he found that rigid sexual repression in both society and the priesthood has had the opposite of its intended effect, fostering bizarre and criminal sexual expression.
According to the commentators the Irish were/are a nation of perverts, child-abusers and sex addicts, fact or fiction??