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From the late 1980s allegations of sexual abuse of children associated with Catholic institutions and clerics in several countries started to receive wide publicity. In the Republic of Ireland, starting in the 1990s, a series of criminal cases and Irish government enquiries established that hundreds of priests had abused thousands of children in previous decades. This article discusses these cases, not those in the politically distinct Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, investigated in the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry. Six reports by the former National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church established that six Irish priests had been convicted between 1975 and 2011. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Timeline: National Board for Safeguarding Children )〕 Unlike the Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States, the abuse in Ireland included cases of high-profile Catholic clerics involved in illicit heterosexual relations as well as widespread physical abuse of children in the Catholic-run childcare network. In many cases, the abusing priests were moved to other parishes to avoid embarrassment or a scandal, assisted by senior clergy. By 2010 a number of in-depth judicial reports had been published, but with relatively few prosecutions. In March 2010 Pope Benedict XVI wrote a pastoral letter of apology for all of the abuse that had been carried out by Catholic clergy.〔 On 31 May 2010 Benedict established a formal panel to investigate the sex abuse scandal, saying that it could serve as a healing mechanism for the country and its Catholics. Among the nine members of the apostolic visitation were Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, the Archbishop of Boston (he investigated the Archdiocese of Dublin); Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, the Archbishop of New York (he investigated the issue of proper priestly formation and visited the seminaries), two nuns (who investigated women's religious institutes and the formation there), Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, England; Archbishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast of Ottawa, Canada; and Cardinal-Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins of Toronto, Canada. ==Early revelations of sexual misconduct== (詳細はchaste, and homosexuality was both a sin and a crime. The Church forbade its members (the "faithful") to use artificial contraception, campaigned strongly against laws allowing abortion and divorce, and publicly disapproved of unmarried cohabiting couples and illegitimacy. Therefore it came as a considerable surprise when the Irish media started to report allegations of lapses in these aspects of the priesthood itself. The Church's high stated standards had also led on in part to the Ann Lovett tragedy and the Kerry Babies case in 1984. A series of television documentaries in the 1990s and 2000s, such as "Suffer the children" (UTV, 1994),〔MOORE, Chris, "Betrayal of Trust: The Father Brendan Smyth Affair and the Catholic Church"; Marino 1995, ISBN 1-86023-027-X; the producer's book about the programme's content〕 ''Suing the Pope'' or ''The Magdalene Sisters'', led on to the need for a series of government-sponsored reports and new guidelines within the Church and society to better protect children. In 1995–2002 the emergence of the same problem in the USA led to the view that the Church had attempted to cover up abuse and misconduct, and was not limited to sexual abuse (see Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States). By the late 2000s the misconduct was recognised as a worldwide scandal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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