‘The church brutalised Ireland. People have a right to protest the pope’s visit’…

Ireland’s political leaders are calling protests against Pope Francis’s visit ‘petty’. Have they forgotten the decades of abuse?

^ as ever with The Guardian - sources, events and information are linked to in the article itself.

On the topic of the Catholic Church blaming the victims for abuse:-

‘The Catholic church must stop blaming victims: children cannot consent to sex’…

‘Catholic Church claimed child sex abuse victims ‘consented’’…