Is the Abuse Irish?

Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Damian Thompson has a tough question to ask about the Irish abuse scandal. “How much of the abuse was Irish and how much of it was Catholic?”
“Journalists noticed (but scarcely dared point out) that” the worldwide abuse scandal “seemed concentrated among the Irish Catholic diaspora.”
He said a prominent American priest scholar agrees.
Thompson ...raised the question about the disproportionate number of Irish involved in abuse stories “rather nervously. To my surprise, he agreed immediately.”
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Thompson’s inquiry may be odious to the Irish, but perhaps the blame can be laid elsewhere: in the French movement Jansenism (which was influenced by and in turn influenced the Irish).
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Innocent X issued a bull condemning Jansenism on May 31, 1653. The bull condemned the following five propositions (says the Catholic Encyclopedia).
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