‘..by their fruits ye shall know them.’

‘A priest suspected of being an IRA leader and masterminding a bombing atrocity was allowed to escape arrest after a secret deal was struck between police, the Government and the Catholic Church, a report revealed today.
Father James Chesney was the ‘prime suspect’ after nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed and 30 injured when three car bombs exploded in the quiet Northern Ireland village of Claudy in July 1972.’   source
UPDATE: This post is not an exercise in bashing the Catholic Church–I’m very mindful of all the good people who are Catholics and of the good work the Church does. But the Church is not well served by those who would hide or excuse incidents such as this.