Readers' Blog: Pope Francis blaming the Devil isn’t credible

In recent days the Pope has been suggesting that Catholics pray for the whole month of October to tackle Satan, who his holiness thinks is responsible for the scourge of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Just to make things a little more interesting, Bishop Cullinane of Waterford and Lismore is reportedly planning an exorcism response to reiki and everyday evil in his diocese — it must be nearly Halloween.

I’m perplexed. What next? Ghostbuster units to be set up across the country to tackle such things. Let me say this to Bishop Cullinane and Pope Francis — the evidence is crystal clear the only people responsible for the cancer of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church are the clerical/religious perpetrators of such heinous abuse and the members of the church hierarchy who were and are complicit in the facilitation of such atrocious abuse and its concealment!