Friday, November 27, 2009 DUBLIN: Ireland's Catholic Church apologised Thursday after a damning new report showed it covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades.The Irish government also said sorry for failing to protect children in the wake of the latest report, published six months after a first landmark study revealed widespread abuse of children in Catholic care."I offer to each and every survivor my apology, my sorrow and my shame for what happened," said Diarmuid Martin, archbishop of Dublin since 2004."I am aware that no words of apology will ever be sufficient," he said, adding, "The fact that many abusers were priests constituted both an offence to God and an affront to the priesthood."The country's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Sean Brady, echoed the comments, saying, "I want to apologise to all those who have been hurt and their families."Following a three-year investigation in the Dublin Archdiocese, the country...
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