"Now, tell me the nationality of all those who signed. Irish, right?"
Please don't reduce this to nationalities Joe - Ireland is a Catholic country - these things happened by edict of the Catholic church
The people of Ireland are not to blame for this any more than the English people are to blame for the crimes committed by their government or their establishment
That is an appalling cop-out
The church were experts in mind control - you are blaming those subjected to that process
I remind you of the South American rape of a child who was then refused a life saving abortion by the church - Irish Catholicism ?
Or the Pope who turned his back on the Italian Jews being shipped off to Auschwitz
Or the Churchmen who conspired in the murder of Archbishop Romero - or those who gave their support to Pinochet, or the Catholic Doctors in Italy who are refusing to carry out legal pregnancy terminations on needy women......
The present Pope has refused to bring about conclusion for the victims of clerical rape by releasing locked-away information that would help do so - I don't think we have an Irish Pope yet - do we?
That is truely saddening - Evil Irish Catholicism - it has the ring of desperation about it.
Incidentally - one of those "Irish" bishops was actually British - do you include British Catholicism in your blame
Jim Carroll