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1. Once again we have a smoke and mirrors approach to this issue! Some honesty would be interesting.

   Posted By: Rosemary Keenan

2. The Church and the whole humanity should be sorry for such a state of affairs. Child abuse by anybody should be condemned. We are in need of conversion. Let pray for one another and help one another in this.

   Posted By: Thomas Kocherry cssr. India

3. The repsonse of the Irish people to the Murphy report is seismic judging from the media coverage and outrage expressed in the letters to the editor
   It is clear that the church in Ireland will never be the same.
   It is not clear however how much of a church will be left in the aftermath.
   The silence from Rome is deafening: akin to a stunned rabbit facing the headlights. It does not know what to say or what to do; but they still feel compelled however to tell the world about right and wrong.
   Here's my advice to Pope Benedict: get out of your papal apartments; hold a presss conference, get on your knees and beg forgiveness
   As head of the CDF, Joseph Ratzinger knew all about these happenings: what did he do about it?
   How about declaring a year of penance on the part of the church: how about having cardinals, bishops, priests parade in sack-cloth and ashes for a year instead of their finery.
   How about an examination on the part of the church into the root causes of such scandalous behaviour with nothing that is non-essential to the faith escaping review (yes that means celibacy) Will we ever see it?

   Posted By: Elias Nasser

4. The Pope and the Bishops are all "sorry". Can those who "knew" about the abuse please resign and confess? Then there is a chance it may not happen again.

   Posted By: Laurie Sheehan

5. 'He said he did not respond to the commission because he was asked for comments on extracts which related to a time before he took over as papal nuncio in April 2008." Since the document was about 1975 to 2004, I was not in a position to comment on proceedings," he said.'
   Of course, he could have responded to them saying precisely that, instead of ignoring them altogether.

   Posted By: Michael

6. The RC Church needs a good prune, beginning with the Vatican. I won't hold my breath for, I believe, the gentlemen in the Vatican believe that Jesus can only operate through them and that he does and believes whatever they do and believe.

   Posted By: Cobber

7. So when will the child abusers be tried and put in jail?
   Why is there no talk of criminal punishment? Are these holier than thou's beyong reproach?

   Posted By: noyb

8. Thank goodness Cathnews has been big enough to allow comments on the Irish abuse. The catasrophic findings of the Murphy Report released recently is absolutely overwhelming. As Catholics ashes and sack cloth of Lent should be the order of the day not the joyous season of Advent. One can barely imagine the pain of the wonderful Irish mother that has always been portrayed throughout history, receiving all her children as a gift of God. This needs to go down in history as the Irish holocaust and those responsable treated as war criminals.
   I'm sure my Jewish friends would find no offence in me using the expression most identified with the sufferings and loss of their own generations of families. Elie Wiesel once said, "We will never forget you," may we to say the same.

   Posted By: L Newington

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