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  Yes I was staggered too at the amount of money The Sisters of Mercy seem to have at their disposal...I think the announcement came in Euro Terms and even sounded more shocking Euro137Million. Staggering. As Bern says there..and I wasnt aware..that it was insurance money, but nevertheless these various Orders of nuns priests and whathaveyou seem very rich anyway.
  
  The slave-ish capitulation to all things Clergy years ago in Ireland was frightening. A whole new braver generation of population was needed before these horrific goings on could be brought to light. We seem to have reached there now. But once upon a time the sheer adulation offered to the local priest was...well I dont know the word...but tooo much. All the eternally headscarfed women were particularly affected and as they were the matriachal backbone of the community, the Church weilded an awesome yoke of power. Although politicians at some point must have been aware of the widespread practises no one dared challenge it. The newer generation of ordinary people spoke out, perhaps fuelled by the successes in America. Although the American society was nothing like as strangled as ours in Ireland.

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