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Sat 05 May 2009Bishop says report reveals church's 'shameful betrayal of sacred trust'
CONFERENCE SPEECH:THE CHURCH’s failure to protect those in its care, as highlighted in the report on child abuse at State-run institutions, was a “shameful betrayal of a sacred trust”, a conference on the role of the Catholic Church in primary education heard yesterday.
Bishop of Kilmore Leo O’Reilly was speaking at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick at a conference on Catholic Primary Education in Contemporary Ireland: Facing New Horizons.
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