"then it is an abomination to interfere with a demonstration that interrupts worship"
And it is not an abomination for somebody who name has been linked with child abuse to take Easter Mass - funny thing religion!
"The pope met with sexual abuse victims in the U.S."
The Pope has all but ignored the abused in Ireland - his actions regarding this has been limited to calling a conference on damage limitation (to the church)
"Jim, you're obsessed."
Am I Joe; are the people who are clamouring that your church be made to answer for their crimes? Is the fact that the church's behaviour on this matter is criticised on almost a daily basis in our national press an obsession.
Is the fact that the church is having to hang on to the right to educate children by the fingernails due to obsession.
Is the fact that lifelong Catholics here are now looking sideways at clergymen over a certain age and asking themselves "I wonder if he was at it with the children".
I would rather regard it as an obsession to continue making excuses for a religion that has allowed large-scale and long-term child abuse (which has in the past included blaming the victims families).
Why do you think that 32% of the population of Ireland no longer trust the word of the church to any degree? Add the don't knows to that figure and you have an organisation in massive decline here.
But it's none of my business - it's your church.
Yes Joe, life does go on - even the lives that have been ruined and tainted by the actions of the church and the future lives that will be effected by the knock-on nature of abuse - or don't you believe abuse begets abuse?
Jim Carroll