Cardinal Vincent Nichols lack of compassion for the victims of child sexual abuse speaks volumes and depicts him as a shadow of a man, a depraved human being. Appearing shocked, like he did not know what was going on does not quite cut it in my view. If he were truly shocked he would have condemned it in the most withering terms.

I do suspect the true numbers would be much higher. Two things here about Catholicism. We have child abuse and we also have the fact that what is confessed can be used against you as well. Wait! Isn't that the same as any other religion!

How is it that we put up with this sort of behaviour in this country?
I think that it's time that confessions were no longer secret. If people are sincerely sorry they won't mind saying so in public. And clerics who assist in covering up abuse should have the same punishment as the abuser. And if anyone disagrees, they should ask themselves what Jesus would do. That Bishop and his cronies are bloody monsters

They are all the same.