Ferns Report an important step in work to prevent child sexual abuse

“This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

Winston Churchill's wartime quote is of some relevance, maybe, to Irish society and the Irish Catholic Church in the wake of the publication of the Ferns Report.

What is in the report is profoundly distressing to anyone concerned with the welfare of children or with the mission of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

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