Archbishop’s warning - Honesty is still the best panacea

THE Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Most Rev Diarmuid Martin has, for some time now, been preparing us for the report of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation into clerical sex abuse.

In what must herald a litany of the most appalling kinds of abuse the Archbishop has warned that the report, which will be published in the summer, “will shock us all”.

When you consider what we have been exposed to, the truly dreadful behaviour of paedophiles Brendan Smyth and Sean Fortune and so many more instances of sexual or violent abuse, the report must reveal truly harrowing behaviour.