"Weren't all these abusers primarily Irish, even within the global Church?"

No, they were German, British, Italian, Polish, Austrian, Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, Dutch, Belgian, etc., etc. . You don't know much about the 'global Church'.

It's not an 'Irish' problem - it's a problem of Catholicism, a Church that put its own reputation above the welfare of children and young people.

I agree with Belfast woman 28. This is a total miscarriage of justice. None of the evidence given by this woman rings true.... and I say that as someone who was sexually abused as a child and as a teenager. I attended this trial and listened to the evidence and, to be honest, was completely horrified by the jury's verdict. Is this what it has come to, that a jury will believe just about anything of a Catholic priest without any corroborating evidence? This verdict is not just a travesty of justice for Eugene Lewis, it is a calculated insult to those who have been genuinely abused.