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	Papal Apology Fails to Satisfy Ireland By Guy Dinmore and John Murray Brown Financial Times March 21, 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03a13da4-3513-11df-9cfb-00144feabdc0.html Pope Benedict XVI's letter of profound apology to Irish sufferers of child sex abuse by Catholic priests disappointed some victims' groups at the weekend but in Vatican circles it was seen as a damning vote of no confidence in the bishops of Ireland. The Pope's unprecedented pastoral letter on paedophilia, in which he expressed his "shame and remorse", was issued in response to the Irish government's latest report detailing the Church's cover-up of abuse by priests over decades.
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