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Dublin, Ireland (CNN) – John Kelly was 14 when he says he lost his faith in God.

“I took the stairs. I just had a nightie on. We pulled over my head. I stayed naked. East 6 feet, 4 inches [height] religious brother sTood on my hands … and another type that we have had a whip ourselves with coins. And he would distance to hit me, “recalls Kelly.

Kelly, now 59, spent much of his childhood in institutions run by Catholic orders in Ireland. The abuse that most vividly recalls took place in a reformatori in Daingean, the heart of Ireland.

“It was a very important night for me,” he says. “I was raped He buggers beforehand for these brothers and religious, which had been attacked physically and psychologically tortured for months – I spent two years in the place.”

But Kelly came to a breaking point, as a brother Catholic subjects, the other two watched and punished, he says.

“I asked him to bring me to God. I just wanted to die to escape pain. And God was not there for me,” he says.

“Kelly's murder” tonight, says he was being named by another boy in reformatori, falsely, as an accomplice in a plot to escape.

However, Kelly she had managed to escape shortly after Daingean, and spent 30 years in London before returning to Ireland. Now he's campaigning in BehaimIf the victims of child abuse.

The death toll in the thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of people – three major investigations in the past five years suggest.

The most recent Report to Murphy, who is the Archdiocese of Dublin and other authorities of the Catholic Church in Ireland covered child abuse by priests from 1975 to 2004. The child sexual abuse was then extended according to the report.

Liam McGlynn, a retired civil servant, believes that it was not a coincidence that so many abused children found their way to the priesthood in Ireland.

The prevalence of the problem, he says, suggests that there were “people who were aware that the best place for abused children were under the roof of the church. The best coverage you ask?

It emphasizes that this is only his personal opinion, but noted that an entire generation has been shut down by the scandal.

“There's almost no young people were at church. The main practice is my generation, though, and more,” said McGlynn, who is 57 years. “The church has lost an entire generation.”

“I have not gone to church for quite some time. My faith has been seriouslycorrupted mind, “he adds.

He is part of a much wider trend, said Patsy McGarry, religious affairs correspondent of The Times of Ireland.

Over 90 percent of Irish people to mass at least once a week in the 1970s. Today the figure is about half that, he says.

“The church has lost the urban working class Ireland,” he says.

The faithful were surprised and disappointed to learn that the Irish bishops had covered up abuses in the name of protecting the Church and its priests, he says.

For faithful Catholics, the most disappointing revelation, McGarry says, was “because it stated that the bishops acted against canon [church] law – as was the case – in violation of civil law – as was the case – but also and above all, contrary to the moral law. blowing out of the water. ”

He saw the evidence of change in attitude towards the Catholic Church just this week, says when he went to a St. Patrick's Day parade in his hometown in rural Ireland.

“There were two bishops, one retired and his successor, and there was no deference of [Show them] that have been there when Iwas growing in the same village. Respect for bishops in Ireland has virtually disappeared, “he says.

This is a very fundamental change he observes.

Once the bishops “had a unique character in Spain, much higher than any government minister,” said McGarry.

“The bishop is a supreme being. … He had an unparalleled location and no answer to Ireland,” he says.

“It will be long” before the church regain its moral authority in Ireland, McGarry, predicts. “I mean, this is a deeply corrupt institution because his behavior has been exposed as immoral.”

But the Church will survive in some form, he says.

“If you're wondering, is this the end of Catholicism in Ireland is not. What is the end of a form of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland we had about 150 years,” he says.

Henceforth, the church needs to involve more women and most lay people, as opposed to the clergy in the management of its affairs, both in response to the crisis as a simple matter of demographics, since a generation has turned their backs on the church, McGarry said.

Pope Benedict XVI shouldto intervene in the crisis within days.

Expected to release its official statement on the abuse scandal on Saturday, in the form of a pastoral letter to the faithful of Ireland.

Abused John Kelly says the declaration must be powerful indeed to meet.

“We need to say that he get rid of all the bishops and cardinals who participated in the concealment of child abuse and start again,” he says.

“If this means that all bishops and cardinals should go to Ireland, so be it,” he says. “Ireland would be a better place for her, and the church would certainly be a better place for him.”