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Wed 05 May 2009'Shameful catalogue of cruelty'
RELIGIOUS ORDERS' REACTION:Great wrong and hurt were caused to some of the most vulnerable children in Irish society, the Catholic Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady said in a statement this evening.
The statement follows the publication of the long-awaited report by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse which found sexual abuse was “endemic” in some institutions and children were exposed to “daily terror” over decades of abuse in Church-run homes.
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