To show you how thumbs weigh on the semantic balance, the site is termed a graveyard - yet it's unconsecrated. The Archbishop accepts they'll have to rebury them in consecrated ground...not that it makes much difference to them or their mothers, I suspect. That ground is consecrated by their suffering, by the testimony they bear against their murderers, holy mothers or not.

And it's not just Ireland, Joe, I had to intervene to protect my daughter in Belgium. For that I was denounced as a heretic Protestant from the pulpit, as an irresponsible single father - my wife had died of cancer. It may be worse in Ireland, but the sense of immunity in the priesthood is everywhere, in Scotland we had a prime case, in the US, in France. This is endemic and must stop. As it isn't being stopped there can only be one solution, and that is to call a spade a spade and end this so-called Church. My reason for it is that in almost any organisation, a new boss has a year to clean and shape it to his mould. It's now well over a year since Pope Francis took over and not a blind thing has changed. This is a typical example. If he had a proper grip there's no way the priest who made those sweep-it-under-the-carpet-again would or could have done it.

It's not hatred of the Church or its fellows, but utter and complete disbelief that it's capable of changing. And if it cannot change itself, then it has become a dead weight in the faith however you conceive it. How long will anyone believe the statements of intent when the reality is something different?