Belfast Telegraph  Friday 26 December 2014  A clerical collar
shouldn’t keep these vile abusers out of prison  The revelations
of clerical abuse just keep on coming. And some of the stories
are so harrowing and heartbreaking it's hard to contemplate how
the survivors lived to tell the tale.  Many victims took their
own lives. We will probably never know if any of the victims
actually lost their lives during an attack.  That's a
possibility few are willing to suggest, but I think we must
assume that out of many, many thousands of attacks on poor and
defenceless children, at least a small number of children may
have died.  I'm not really interested in what the Catholic
Church, or anyone in it, has to say about clerical abuse any
more. If the Church was going to do anything to protect
children, it would have done it by now.  Therefore, I can only
assume that the hierarchy does not intend to modernise the
organisation in any way.  I think we can safely assume that
married men and women will never be ordained into