Clerical sex abuse in Cavan
by planetparker
Recently another case of sexual abuse involving a priest and a young boy has arisen here in Co. Cavan. The details are too sordid to interest me. What is interesting, though, is that the affair has been mentioned in the local rag, the Anglo-Celt. You’d know that the likes of Anselm Lovett Sr. no longer work there. This former chairman of the local Fianna Faill cumann was also a stalwart of the Knights, and was therefore able to ensure that there were no stories which might have caused embarrassment to the local clergy – t that, according to my information, he ever did so
Anselm was of course the father of David Lovett, one-time town clerk in Cavan; a brother of John Lovett of The Copper Kettle, Kilnaleck, a past president of the Irish vintners and keen beekeeper; and an uncle of poor Ann in Granard.
The Catholic Church really has an awful lot to hang its head in shame about in Ireland – not all of it necessarily the fault of its priests.
