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Geez, Irish Catholics seem to be on a roll these days for horrible, abusive stupidity. Today’s bit of jolliness: today a 2,600-page report was released documenting decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in Catholic church run reform schools. Many of the children were there because of the “crime” of being born to an unwed mother.

A lot of those clergymen responsible for the rapes and beatings of young boys will go unidentified and unpunished due to a successful lawsuit that the Christian Brothers brought in 2004 to keep the names of their members out of the report.

The Catholic religious orders that ran more than 50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late 19th century until the mid-1990s offered public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday. But when questioned, their leaders indicated they would continue to protect the identities of clergy accused of abuse — men and women who were never reported to police, and were instead permitted to change jobs and keep harming children.

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The Christian Brothers’ leader in Ireland, Brother Kevin Mullan, said the organization had been right to keep names secret because “perhaps we had doubts about some of the allegations.”

What I have doubts about is why the Catholic church is still in existence.

Read the whole nauseating story here.