the last knight of europe

"Well James," said Jennifer, "at least you're willing to discuss the sex abuse issue and listen to other points of view. Daddy won't talk about it at all. He just switches off the moment I say anything against the church."
"Jen," I answered softly, "if a Nazi or a Commie, or whatever collection of half wits used to murder Christians centuries ago, a French Revolutionary maybe, or the Brits when they'd briefly lost the plot round the time of Henry The Eighth, or a Jihadi, or any other two bit atheistic loser from the past two thousand years of wars against the faith, if any one of those I say, burst in the door right now and cried out: 'Deny Christ and his church or we slit your throats,' the only one here I'd put money on to defy one of those or all of them, would be your father. In previous ages those who persecuted the church, slaughtered priests in the streets. Nowadays the persecutors of the Church don't commit direct murders so much. They just try to humiliate priests out of existence using contrived arbitrary retrospectively applied connotations of wrong doing devised by self styled atheistic humanists in the Media and the Judiciary to ruin the reputations of priests, nuns and Bishops in their old age. This is a far more cowardly and dishonorable persecution than anything the Nazis or the Commies every came up with. And yes ordinary people aren't always up to the word games or legalistic contrivancies of anti Catholic bigots such as Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times and Judge Yvonne Murphy. But still ordinary people who may not be so talented at the debating word games you and I excel in Jen, still they have an instinct for truth that makes it very difficult for the likes of Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times and Judge Yvonne Murphy to successful stampede them from the faith. By maliciously and malignly misleading the citizenry abou the nature and extent of child abuse, Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times, and Judge Yvonne Murphy do think they will succeed in destroying the Church where the Nazis, the Commies, the Jihadis and all the rest failed. I tell you this. Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times, RTE and Judge Yvonne Murphy have concealed far more sex abuse than any of the Bishops they seek so callously to impugn, malign and destroy. Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times and Judge Yvonne Murphy, have themselves concealed the broad mass of sex abuse engulfing every sector of Irish society simply by failing to point it out. Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times and Judge Yvonne Murphy have deliberately concealed the 99.99 percent of sex abuse cases which occur in family homes, sports clubs and laicised health facilities and have instead mendaciously misled the Irish people into the false belief that the majority of cases arise in the Church. So 999 victims out of  every thousand are ignored because those victims are of no use to Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times and Judge Yvonne Murphy in their kulturkampf against the Catholic Church. Let me be clear. Independent Newspapers, RTE, the Irish Times, and Judge Yvonne Murphy are attempting to shut the Catholic Church down through the courts. They will repent in hell fire."