Child Molesters and Churchmen

Ferd
Wed, 01 Feb 1995 09:00:00 +0000
Catholic church, Education, Religion, National, Newspaper, Analysis, Andrew Blackmore

When the case of Father Brendan Smyth, the paedophile priest, came out, the whole country was revolted. But while the politicians attempted to score political points off each other, many important questions were not asked. Here was an unrepentant child molester, carrying out sexual assaults on hundreds of children over a period of forty years, with the full knowledge of the Catholic Church. What sort of twisted religious "morals" could justify the Church protecting such a man, for so long? Anarchists have always opposed clerical control of education.