I think the game is up for Archbishop Martin's attempts to turn the religious orders into a bad church for toxic abuse. It only works if people don't realise it is happening. But this morning on Joe Duffy's TV programme on RTE1 the cat came out of the bag. Joe began with a bland "the bishops have come out of this controversy well", his tongue firmly in his cheek. Fr Tony Flannery paused but a moment before laying in to their attempts at scape-goating religious orders. I thought he would ...
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