No Dublin The Fun

On Thursday, a significant amount of information related to sexual abuse by clergy in Ireland was released.  In many cases, such information is released begrudingly and under some type of court order.  To his credit, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin proactively released the information and even went so far to warn people that the information would bring shame on priests, religious and bishops in Ireland.  In an interview on Irish television, Archbishop Martin appears to be visibly upset by the fact that such abuse was allowed to continue by so many church leaders.  It will be interesting to see the fallout from the release of the information, both in Ireland and in the Vatican.