Experts: Bishops Covered Up Priests’ Child Abuse (ap)

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Worshippers attend mass at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, Thursday Nov. 26, 2009, after an expert commission reported following a three-year probe into previously secret church records, that The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims. Abuse victims said they welcomed publication of the probe into the mishandling of 1975-2004 child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics. But they said government and church leaders still had far to go to compensate for past wrongs.(AP Photo/Niall Carson-pa)AP – Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests in order to protect the church’s reputation, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year investigation.

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