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Tue 06 Jun 2009Bringing good from the darkness of church's child abuse scandal
RITE AND REASON:I WAS GREETED at breakfast with a curt, “I heard about Ireland on the news”. He said no more. I suppose a condemnation would be rather meaningless. I said nothing. They are all Catholic in this residence, after all, and they know the Catholic Church is more than the people that make it up.
Many, I’m sure, will jump on the bandwagon at home and start attacking the faith and the church’s teaching as the cause of so much evil, but here in France, the question was delivered to me in a much more pointed fashion.
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