Abuse scandals are destroying the Church

Cardinal Seán Brady, the Primate of the Catholic Church in Ireland who forced two victims of abuse to take a vow of silence in the 1970s, wants to remain in office despite demands for his resignation. The daily the Irish Examiner is harshly critical that senior representatives of the Church have justified his behaviour: "These revelations and the response to them will deepen the sense of betrayal felt by so many good people clinging to their faith despite decades of clerical scandals. It's ironic that the secularism so reviled by the church did not destroy the faith of so many, rather it was destroyed by a institution incapable of reform or understanding that it had obligations other than those to itself. Secularism exposed the evil protected by the church but the church is destroying itself."

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