Die "Ierse Holocaust"

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In his paper, ‘After Artane’, Fr Michael Shortall of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, suggested that events detailed in the Ryan Report and in the revelations of clerical sex abuse in the Church “ought to influence the theological agenda in Ireland.”

The lecturer in moral theology noted that in the public discourse on this subject, an analogy had been drawn between the Holocaust and the abuse suffered in many Irish institutions. “Some who use it go so far as to imply that the two events are equivalent. It is important to state that they are not. No genocide occurred in Ireland.” Fr Shortall told the conference “the extremity of the Holocaust inherently demands that it not be diluted.”
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