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	Murphy Report – Church and State Guilty but Don't Criminalise Everyday Life Forth November 30, 2009 http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/murphy_report_dont_criminalise/20091130/#axzz0YLRU2S2f The appalling abuse of children by Catholic priests should not be allowed to make children of us all, says Jason Walsh The publication last week of the Murphy report into clerical child abuse has revealed not only a Church more interested in maintaining its reputation than the welfare of children but also a state that had no interest in justice. Most worrying of all, though, is the development that sees everyone as both a potential abuser or victim. Watching the Catholic hierarchy squirm under the media spotlight is one thing but, whatever the fallout for the Church, the lesson of the idea that 'the state knows best' being a fraud is being lost.
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