In light of todays report into abuse in the Catholic Church, I feel deeply saddened that the church which campaigned for childrens rights in the formative years of youth work then turned and abused its position of trust with children.
I feel ashamed that a Christian Church has so horribly let down a generation of young people - THIS is why the youth work sector in Churches needs to keep striving towards professionalism.
The only decent thing the Catholic Church can do is disband the Christian Brothers as a religious sect and hand over the names of those abusers to be prosecuted.
The victims are the ones who need to be listened to here - this is a Gospel imperative. If the Church doesn't listen and act, then who will...?
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