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THE German experience, where society had to acknowledge the involvement of many ordinary people in committing the greatest horrors of the 20th century, is something Ireland can learn from as it deals with the legacy of widespread clerical abuse. That’s the view of Derek Scally, the Berlin-based Irish Times journalist whose book The Best Catholics In The World has won very positive reviews from some highly respected commentators. Along with Fintan O’Toole, Declan O’Rourke and Sophie White, he will be at the Sunday Symposium in Glór this weekend, which is the first event of the final day of the Ennis Book Club festival. He said that the book started off as he observed the decline in the Church after making a visit home. “I’ve been living in Germany for the last 20 years, and after a while you kind of feel you have one foot in both camps, I’m kind of at home in Dublin and at home in Berlin. …
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