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[...]The sexual abuse of a child is and always was a crime in civil law; it is and always was a crime canon law; it is and always was grievously sinful.

One of the most heartbreaking aspects of the Report is that while Church leaders – Bishops and religious superiors - failed, almost every parent who came to the diocese to report abuse clearly understood the awfulness of what has involved.

Almost exclusively their primary motivation was to try to ensure that what happened to their child, or in some case to themselves, did not happen to other children.

Their motivation was not about money or revenge; it was quite simply about that most basic human sense of right and wrong and that basic Christian motivation of concern for others. The survivors of abuse who courageously remained determined to have the full truth heard by all deserve our recognition and admiration.
[...]
The hurt done to a child through sexual abuse is horrific. Betrayal of
trust is compounded by the theft of self esteem. The horror can last a
lifetime.
Today, it must be unequivocally recalled that the Archdiocese of
Dublin failed to recognise the theft of childhood which survivors endured
and the diocese failed in its responses to them when they had the courage to
come forward, compounding the damage done to their innocence.
For that no words of apology will ever be sufficient.

ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN
on the occasion of the publication of the
Commission of Investigation in the sexual abuse of children by priests
in the Archdiocese of Dublin
26th November 2009