UNITED STATES
Patrick J. Wall
Here is my crash course in the Irish Christian Brothers sex abuse and cover-up scandal and bankruptcy:
In order to understand the current Irish Christian Brothers debacle, we need only look north.
As I have repeated (and as my Church history professors seared into my cortex in countless seminary courses): The Past is Prologue to the Future.
In light of that, let’s take a short trip back in time:
In 1975, detectives Robert Hillier and Paul Pitcher of the Newfoundland Constabulary were investigating complaints from the Irish Christian Brothers orphanage at Mount Cashel. Hillier and Pitcher were not naive detectives, but even they could not imagine the extent of the beatings and sexual abuse, the Brothers collusion, and the blatant obstruction of justice and corruption surrounding the child sexual abuse by the Irish Christian Brothers who worked at Mount Cashel. It would take an additional two decades for the moral bankruptcy to explode. You can read the results of their work here, in the 1991 Hughes Report, Part I and Part II.
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