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Wed 03 Mar 2010'It's like getting into debt and asking the priest to pay for what you'd done wrong'

THERE WAS shock yesterday among parishioners in Co Wexford at the request by the Bishop of Ferns Denis Brennan for their help to pay compensation and legal bills resulting from clerical child sex abuse claims.

Many people in Enniscorthy said the money should come from the sale of church assets rather than the pockets of parishioners.