The NSS has submitted a 50 page report to the Social Rights Committee of the Council of Europe severely critical of the Irish government’s subservience to the Catholic Church over many decades in respect of child abuse.
The report was prepared by the NSS’s Executive Director, Keith Porteous Wood, who commented: “The very first lines of the Irish constitution read: In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred. These preliminary words are the very antithesis of secularism. I argue that this complete absence of secularism was the principal factor resulting in Ireland having the highest per capita incidence of clerical child abuse yet discovered.” Read more …
