Jim

One of the sideshows to all this that has gone relatively unnoticed is the somewhat unseemly quabble that is going on between the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland as to who should receive the largest slice of government (public) funding in order to continue educating Irish children - bizarre or what!!!
Jim Carroll


That's a misleading and somewhat tendentious oversimplification of a complex situation which has marginal relevance in this context.

Joe

I'm not sure why you seem surprised that individual generosity and caring behaviour could coexist with abuse in the context of religious organisations. Of course it did - I could tell you tales of both! Nonethless, the prevailing culture in 20C. working class Dublin was of clerical domination of the lives of those people - overwhelmingly so until the mid '70's. I'm making no commment on the middle class or rural situations simply to emphasise that I speak from direct experience.


Regards