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| [00:00.00] | Senior Irish Catholican Protestant clergymen |
| [00:03.22] | have criticized the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion |
| [00:06.82] | for saying that Catholic Church in Ireland |
| [00:09.06] | had lost all credibility over the child abuse scandal. |
| [00:11.92] | The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin |
| [00:14.82] | said he was stunned and disheartened by the Archbishop of |
| [00:18.42] | Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams' first comment on the crisis. |
| [00:21.23] | Robert Prigott reports. |
| [00:22.91] | Even Pope Benedict has accepted |
| [00:25.14] | that the Catholic Church in Ireland has lost moral authority, |
| [00:28.10] | saying in his pastoral letter last month |
| [00:30.44] | that its bishops had lost their effectiveness |
| [00:32.73] | because of the way they handled the sexual abuse. |
| [00:35.27] | But criticism from the leader of another church |
| [00:37.61] | proved too much. |
| [00:38.79] | Dr.Williams has spoken of the colossal trauma |
| [00:41.99] | caused by the scandal. |
| [00:43.37] | But they were words Dr.Williams' quickly regretted |
| [00:46.05] | and he phoned the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin |
| [00:49.57] | to express his deep sorrow at the difficulties his remarks had caused. |