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  • Vatican says its Irish abuse letter misunderstood

    01/18/2011 9:23:23 PM PST · by Dr. Eckleburg · 212 replies
    AP ^ | January 18, 2011 | SHAWN POGATCHNIK
    DUBLIN -- A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police - a disclosure that victims' groups described as "the smoking gun" needed to show that the church enforced a worldwide culture of covering up crimes by pedophile priests. The newly revealed letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland's first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits...