"the Church as an entity is not"
The Church hierarchy is guilty of at least complicity to conceal what happened and in some cases to facilitate the continuation of the abuses by passing abusive priests on to parishes where their activities were not known - this latter became an international issue when some abusers ran out of parishes to where they could be passed on to in Ireland and were shipped off abroad
Why do you people continue to deny facts that have long been established in the country where they took place and have done enormous damage to the reputation of the church?
You can deny these facts until they pour out of your ears, but these are what is gradually destroying what remains of the reputation of the church - not ant-Catholic bigots
Even leading members of the hierarchy, such as the Bishop of Dublin, Diarmud Martin have admitted that that the continuing mishandling of these crimes have damaged the church and need addressing urgently
It would be interesting to know exactly where you7 disagree with this general consensus, instead of throwing up irrelevant objections that bear no relation to reality
(Articulate enough, I hope!)
Jim Carroll