The lead of an AP item published in the Washington Post today. More evidence for my contention that pedophily is endemic rather than exceptional within the Catholic Church.


Wide Abuse Disclosed in Dublin Church
Associated Press
Thursday, March 9, 2006; Page A13


DUBLIN, March 8 -- The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, rocked for a decade by sex scandals, on Wednesday made its biggest admission to date: 102 of its Dublin priests past and present, or 3.6 percent of the total since 1940, are suspected of abusing children.

The disclosure came a week before the government is to convene a probe into how church and state authorities conspired, by negligence and design, to cover up decades of child abuse within the Dublin priesthood.