Monday, November 19, 2007
IT'S NOT OVER YET
A Catholic priest, who for over 20 years has been a leading advocate of the rights of people sexually abused by clergy, has warned the worst is not over where the issue is concerned.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," US Dominican priest Fr Tom Doyle has said. A canon lawyer and former US air force chaplain, in 1985 he helped draft a report on clerical child sex abuse for America's Catholic bishops. He is a regular visitor to Ireland.
"It [clerical child sex abuse] may not be front-page news, but the nightmare is still going on. We are only starting to see the extent of clergy abuse in non-English speaking countries.
"We'll continue to see victims come forward because the sickness is far deeper and wider than anyone can imagine."
Speaking in an interview with Realitymagazine, he said "the hierarchy have never faced it head on and done something effective to find out why clergy sexual abuse has been so much a part of clerical culture. It's been hidden and denied, but it's there and has been for centuries."
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