Product Description: The Ryan Report on abuse of children in Irish state institutions that were run by religious orders caused outrage and confusion. Redemptorist Tony Flannery undertook the task of responding in as positive and constructive a way as possible, and has brought together a very competent and thoughtful team to write about the report, the media treatments of it, its implications for the care of children now and in the future, and its implications for the future of the church in Ireland...read more

Product Description: At the end of 1994, the Father Brendan Smyth affair brought shame on the Catholic Church in Ireland, and led directly to the fall of the Labour-Fianna Fail Government led by Albert Reynolds. The Irish public grew used to the face of the paedophile priest who was sentenced in Belfast on several counts of sexual abuse of children...read more