Jeffrey Anderson, the attorney most responsible for the waves of litigation that have revealed the church's secrets on abusive priests, is even more optimistic.

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The original complaint made to the church in 2008 concerned the alleged abusive behaviour of a churchwarden.

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Brady, who personally read the pope's letter to his congregation in Armagh Saturday, apologized this week for his role in the church's investigation of an abusive priest in 1975.

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