IRELAND/UNITED STATES
Irish Examiner
By Stephen Rogers
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has warned the Church is at a breaking point due to the sex abuse scandals — and said “problems” with child protection still remained.
In an interview which is to be broadcast to millions of Americans on Sunday night, Archbishop Martin tells the primetime CBS news programme, Sixty Minutes about the effect of the abuse revelations.
He is asked whether the Church has reached breaking point.
“It has reached a breaking point,” he said. “It is at a very difficult stage.”
He is then asked to what extent the crisis in the Church is due to the sexual scandals to which he replies: “Enormously.”
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