An Irish Tragedy: How Sex Abuse By Irish Priests Helped Cripple The Catholic Church. The story of how Irish immigrants
helped to build the American Catholic Church is well-known.
But the sad
tale of how Irish priests later undermined the Church has gone untold,
until now. Investigative reporter Joe Rigert's search for the roots of
the Catholic sex-abuse scandals led him to Ireland, where he found that
rigid sexual repression in both society and the priest.