My comment:http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5231
All the children in Ayrfield, Dublin, knew fun-loving Father Bill Carney - not just the altar boys and those who met him through school, but members of the Scout troop he ran and the groups of local children he took swimming.
His door was always open, there was a ready supply of Coke in the fridge and in the 1980s he had the very latest thing to lure youngsters in - a video player.
Adults disapproved of his swearing and crazy driving, but the Catholic Church was still so trusted, no-one suspected the truth about him.
Bridie Dwyer still lives in Ayrfield. Above the fireplace, with other family photographs is a picture of her youngest child, Paul, on his first Communion day.
At the age of 13 Paul went with other boys to watch videos at Father Carney's house and to have a sleepover, Mrs Dwyer told me. But at 2am Paul unexpectedly returned home.
"Thought you were going for a sleepover?" she recalled asking him as he pushed past her. "Didn't want to stay," he replied and shut his door.
"That's when he'd been raped," Mrs Dwyer told me, "but I didn't know".
"But this compulsive paedophile refused to leave the parish house. So the Church paid him £30,000 to go away."
Ridiculous. They should've, at the very least, thrown him in jail for 30,000 years. Life-long sentence, yes.
Yes, it's what many of them suffer from, in everyday English it is called: hypocrisy, and he was just probably "purifying those kids from the evil inside them and ridding them of their wickedness.""The Murphy report quotes a psychiatric assessment which says he suffers from a "psychopathic personality disorder".
"psychopathic personality disorder"...give me a break.
