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...Christian Brothers ran more industrial schools in Ireland than any other religious order. Indeed, for much of the 20th century, the group was responsible for providing primary and secondary education for the majority of Catholic boys in the country. The order has come under fire from campaigners like Raftery for allegedly blocking the work of the child-abuse commission. The inquiry was delayed for more than a year, after the Christian Brothers won a court case preventing members and former members from being named in the commission's final report - including those who had already been convicted of abuse. "There...
...report lists the sexual, physical and emotional abuse - including rape, molestation and severe beatings - inflicted on children in about 100 so-called industrial schools, most of which had closed by the 1970s. These were state-funded institutions run by Roman Catholic orders such as the Christian Brothers or Sisters of Mercy, to which orphans, truants, children of unmarried mothers and those with behavioral problems were typically sent...
...Aparicio J. Davis, Bora Fezga, Christian B. Flow, Athena Y. Jiang, and William N. White contributed to the reporting of this story. —Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu. --Check TheCrimson.com for more updates throughout the evening. --Check The Crimson's Twitter at www.twitter.com/thecrimson for updates...
There are several good reasons. For one, as Merkel made clear, Germans have a special obligation. "We don't want [history] to repeat itself," as papal adviser Kasper says. The Holocaust also remains an affront to the self-understanding of Christians, and Western civilization as a whole. We learned the word genocide through the Jews. Since Vatican II, the Roman Catholic Church has set the post-Shoah standard in acknowledging the absolute unacceptability of the Jewish loss. Without the Catholic Church's leadership on the issue, other Christian groups might not have followed...
...Bora Fezga, William N. White, Christian B. Flow, and Eric P. Newcomer contributed to the reporting of this story...