" I did say MORE likely to occur."
Sorry Rog - 'twas but a joke - I tend to need to lighten these discussions for myself in order to return to them - I find some of them extremely harrowing.
I personally have never been comfortable with the idea of discussing with people whose names I don't know - somehow, addressing replies to names which seem downright discourteous doesn't seem right.
On the other hand, to make a rule for guests on one type of posting seems discriminating to those who, for one reason or another, don't wish to be identified, doesn't seem the way to go.
I don't think you have killed this thread - far from it.
Here in Ireland there is a bit of a lull in the proceedings - it has disappeared from the letter pages of the newspapers for the present, but no doubt, it will be back.
Ireland has been in the process of reading the entrails of its state and religious-run organisations for over a decade now, and no doubt, will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Further issues are lurking in the shadows; the testing of untried drugs on the children in some of these institutions, the conditions in nursing homes and homes for the elderly and in mental homes being among them.
It has never been an attack on religion - if it had it would have been a severe case of self-harm as it is Catholics who have been in the forefront of the campaigns.
It is, hopefully, the long-overdue and much-needed cleaning out of an Augean stable - more power to that
Jim Carroll