text: "The website contains a database of publicly known sexual offenders from the church that you can search by diocese or name."
  
  How wonderful. We don't have such a register in Ireland I think, but a few years ago someone in Co. Wicklow got word that a sex offender (and his wife and 4 children) lived nearby. About 15 years before he had been sentenced to 6 months for  an offence against a minor. The Wicklow lynch mob got to work right away and the man and his family were driven from their home. This happened on a second and a third occasion. The wife then tearfully promised to separate from her husband. The lynch mob heeded her all right. They burned down the 4th house with the family's belongings inside.
  
  AFTER the arson, Wicklow County Council passed a motion that anyone who "associated with" a sex offender should be denied housing by the Council. A truly "Catholic" solution though Ireland is actually a secular country today!