Catholic schools.

Exactly my experience, bagitha. It is easy for us though, we probably just feel rage that the abuse was covered up for so long and that the church still does not seem to be able accept its responsibilies to the victims.
I feel a little sorry for catholics, though - it must be very hard when you have been brought up to have such reverence for any institution or group of people and find they have feet of clay. In Eire, there has been a huge drop in attendance at mass. Could this be the end of the church? Or will people go on supporting it, come what may?

Yep. Lost all of it in my youth. Not through abuse, I hasten to add, but because I never had any faith in the first place. Looked at the communion host (wafer/cracker) when I was seven and we were being indoctrinated about transubstantiation and decided I didn't believe a word of it, even though I wanted to at that age so that I would be a "good person". At sixteen I questioned the infallibility of the Pope during an RE lesson and the teacher told me I wasn't a christian. That's that sorted, then. <dusts hands>