It often starts as a voice in
the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for
truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse
in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and
confronting the clergy to face its demons.
Ireland was the first in Europe
to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile
priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of
suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the
Continent — nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland
of Pope Benedict XVI. more>>>>>>>>
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