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Tue 12 Dec 2009Most priest abusers had free rein in schools
ANALYSIS:SINCE ITS publication, it is clear that the Murphy report has accentuated a fundamental shift in the relationship between the Irish people and the Roman Catholic Church, writes MARY RAFTERY
The intimacy of trust which for over a century defined that relationship is nowhere more evident than in the unquestioning access which people allowed priests have to their children. Priests, together with the schools in which they played such a big part, were the other half of the partnership which provided moral foundation to the vast majority of the nation’s children.
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