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[theweaselking]

Catholics object to Irish law requiring them to stop covering up the rape of children.

Cardinal Sean Brady called the practice of hiding child rapists a "sacred and treasured" rite.

The Archbishop of Armagh said "any intrusion upon it is a challenge to the very basis of a free society"

The government of Ireland, in the mean time, insists that aiding and abetting is aiding and abetting even when you do it because the voices in your head tell you to.

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[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

there's a film starring Linus Roache, called 'Priest'

I recommend you watch it. I raged over it for the best part of a year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110889/

[uglychicken.livejournal.com]

Good film, though a friend of mine thought that the weakest part was the way the abuser comes on all Hannibal Lecter in the confessional, and I am inclined to agree with her.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I do recall that being by far the most distasteful part

or utterly sickening.

the mother at the end was brutal, and I wasn't at all sure what to make of it. I was like 'how the fuck could you /not/ know?'

[uglychicken.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering correctly, it was the girl who first told the priest under seal, and though he begged her to let him tell someone, she refused. That was fine, because a victim confiding in someone and then swearing them to secrecy, and the person wrestling with that, is believable, the seal of the confessional just added an extra dimension to it. It was the father working out what had happened and using the confessional to gloat that pushed it from drama to melodrama. The bit with the mother was, indeed, brutal, but her reaction to discovering the abuse suggested that she definitely had no idea.