“Despite two decades of horrific revelations of systematic cover-up of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy, the Catholic Church remains a central part of Irish life.”
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, like most of my peers, I had a thoroughly Catholic upbringing. From birth to death the Church was an integral part of our lives. I was educated by nuns in a Catholic convent, went to First Fridays, feasts of St Blaize and Brigid, benedictions and novenas.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/should-an-institution-that-presided-over-child-abuse-control-most-schools-1.3853571
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/should-an-institution-that-presided-over-child-abuse-control-most-schools-1.3853571
