Now we know price of church brainwashing

FIRST Ferns, then Ryan and now the Murphy report all show the depth of corruption in the Catholic Church and the depth of deference to this corruption was shown in the Dáil by our Taoiseach when he fell over himself verbally while bending the knee to the Holy See.

Instead he should have recalled the Irish ambassador to the Vatican and sent the Papal Nuncio home. In contrast, Mary O’Rourke, to her eternal credit, stood for the Republic.

It amazes me that many people are amazed at the extent of our deference to the church. When children are brainwashed from the age of four that religion is sacrosanct and cannot be questioned, the foundations of deference are laid. Parents teach their children this deference by word and example. Our primary schools, under the iron hand of the Vatican, inculcate this “ethos”.