Gutless government and religious hypocrites as guilty as the abusers

MANY people felt a deep sense of betrayal over the disclosure that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a son, but in the last analysis what was betrayed was their own sense of innocence.

He became one of the victims of a system that preyed on ignorance.

For generations too many Irish people shirked the responsibility to inform their own consciences and think for themselves. They preferred to follow blindly the dictates of the hierarchy with an unquestioning loyalty. Bishops were treated as if they were infallible on matters religious, social and even political.