The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has used his Christmas message to reiterate the church's stance on abortion.
The report into the Clogher diocese is one of seven relating to the Catholic Church in Ireland that were released on Wednesday.
On Monday, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Archbishop Sean Brady, said the attack on a Constable Kerr was an attack on all of society.
Dr Paisley's suspicions of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland surfaced during a tense meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Westminster in June 1981 during the hunger-strike.
Released July 13, the 421-page report into abuses in the diocese of Cloyne -- near the southern city of Cork -- demolished claims by the Catholic Church in Ireland that policies it put in place in 1996 had enabled it to get a handle on the problem.
CNN: Vatican recalls envoy to Ireland over priest abuse scandal
The deeply Catholic country has been badly shaken by a government-backed report that found the Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland covered up child abuse by priests from 1975 to 2004.
The inquiry began work last October and is examining the extent of child abuse in Catholic church and state-run institutions in Northern Ireland.
In Catholic countries such as Ireland and Poland, church and nation are linked in the minds of many.
The powerful film, for This World on BBC One NI and BBC Two, investigated the failure of the Catholic Church to deal with abusing priests in Ireland.
The Ferns case has triggered fresh claims of clerical sex abuse incidents and a flood of anger in overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland, where the church's image has been severely damaged by a string of scandals in the last decade.
The Ferns case has triggered fresh claims of clerical sex abuse incidents and a flood of anger in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland, where the Church's image has been severely damaged by a string of scandals in the last decade.
But a previous government had abandoned the idea after it had been opposed not just by private medicine but, even more important in Ireland, by the Roman Catholic church.
After all, it is only the mass commercialisation of Halloween that is both new and American: it is more than a millennium since the Catholic church, attempting to convert the pagan Celts in Britain and Ireland, created All Saints or All Hallows Day to coincide with the Celtic festival honouring the dead.
Last month, the head of Ireland's Catholic Church apologised for his role in mishandling the case of serial child abuser, Father Brendan Smyth.
While Ireland's religious nationalism is in retreat (because the Catholic Church has lost influence), Greece's Orthodox leaders, like Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, are putting up a harder fight to preserve the nationalist spirit which their predecessors embraced, reluctantly at first, in the 19th century.
The BBC Northern Ireland programme, The Shame of the Catholic Church, has won a Bafta in a ceremony in London.
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