"Is it not more important to determine why these men are assaulting mainly teenagers and young adult males?
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This one was dealt with at the beginning and has been reiterated over and over again - including by Joe
That was what was available, these were the people the clerics had access to.
It had nothing to do with the sex of these victims - the boys and the girls were equally abused - the priests were given access mainly to the boys - the Nuns took charge of the young women
The aabuses were not just sexual; they were physical
The cruelty of of the Industrial Schools like Ferns, run by Priests was the first to hit the headlines - others emerged later
Patrick Galvin's autobiographical 'Raggy Boy' trilogy covered this fully - sex was never the main issue - just the inordinate wielding of power.
The Magdalene Laundries ran from the 18th century to the 1990s - for the correction of "fallen women"
When are you going to stop trying to make it one of your homophobic rants?
Physical cruelty dominated all of these institutions.
Ken Loach's son, Jim, lifted the lid off Britain's dirty linen box with his, 'Sunshine and Oranges' when he exposed the secret deportation of English Children to Australia to be put to work there - again, brutality rather than sex.
Please take your obsessive hatred of a form of life that is now accepted for what it is - natural
Get help
"maybe you'd actually be able to carry on an intelligent discussion."
If you actually ansered the points I am making rather than pretending I am talking about something else, maybe then we can have an intelligent discussion.
As far as I am concerned, blaming the victim and the country they came from (Ireland, The "Irish" church" and "the Irish people" is sick - you have done this.
The Churches and the Vatican were fully complicit in these crimes - that is what I am claiming has wielded the massive damage to your religion - not "a few bad apples" as you originally claimed way back
Jim Carroll