Our Father who art in heaven....?

These are the first words of a well know prayer. I was taught these words early on in my life. Little did I know though, that many of the very people who claimed devotion to these words, who posed as "servants of the lord" propagating Catholicism, and who taught us these very words at school, where really members of an institution that has the... I really don't know what to call it, I'm at a loss of words here... the audacity to cover up such disgusting crimes as child abuse and molestation. 

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DUBLIN – After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland's castaway children.

The 2,600-page report painted the most detailed and damning portrait yet of church-administered abuse in a country grown weary of revelations about child molestation by priests.

The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s.

Wednesday's five-volume report on the probe — which was resisted by Catholic religious orders — concluded that church officials shielded their orders' pedophiles from arrest amid a culture of self-serving secrecy.

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