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Wed 12 Dec 2009Bishops 'humbly ask for forgiveness'
The State's bishops have said they "humbly ask for forgiveness" for the sexual abuse of children in the Dublin archdiocese as outlined in the report of the Murphy commission.
Following the first day of its winter meeting at Maynooth, Co Kildare today, the members of the Irish Bishops' Conference said they were "deeply shocked by the scale and depravity of abuse" as described in the report.
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