Seems to me, that most here are more interested in what motivates the Catholic Church, than what motivated the bastards who actually committed these disgusting crimes.


I think the church is not doing itself any favours at this point by responding the way it does.

The official line hastily distanced itself from the uttering of Msgr Maurice Dooley this but as the man spoke on radio to many people he was the face of the problem, the face of a church favouring a legalistic 'there's nothing we did wrong' approach over a more compassionate one. How can you not wonder about what motivates people like that?