Vatican’s wealth should be used to pay for claims

IT seems the clergy, for all the fantastic work they have done for education in this country, are incapable of learning.

After belatedly taking up the path of contrition, reconciliation and repentance, they have chosen to gallop en masse into the wilds again in the weeks since they returned from their much-publicised trip to Rome.

The Pope didn’t see fit to apologise to victims and ordinary Catholics; indeed there was no reference whatsoever in his statement to his Church’s role in covering up the brutal and depraved regime which ruined thousands of children’s lives.