High clergy hid abuse by priests, Irish find
‘Children left to suffer,’ archbishop says
Posted: November 27, 2009 at 5:42 a.m.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin talks Thursday in Dublin about a government-ordered investigation detailing how some church leaders have sheltered child-abusing priests from the law.
Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law, and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland’s government concluded Thursday.
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