CHARLES DUNNE,
Madam, - As an elderly Catholic I have been following with dismay the news reports and correspondence concerning the sex abuse of children by our clergy.
What I find particularly difficult to comprehend is how a priest who abused a child remained in a spiritual state which permitted him to celebrate Mass.
Did he have a regular compliant confessor who, observing the seal of the sacrament, was not able to intervene? Or did the perpetrator not consider his actions sinful as he continued in his obscene practices?
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Perhaps a theologian would inform us. - Yours, etc.,
CHARLES DUNNE, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.