Ireland Online
February 17, 2010
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Victim of clerical sex abuse Colm O'Gorman has said the meeting between Ireland's Bishops and the Pope in Rome earlier this week was "a cynical PR exercise".
Following the two-day summit in Rome on Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Vatican released a statement condemning child abuse as a "heinous crime", but the Pope did not apologise, nor take any responsibility for what happened.
Campaigner Colm O'Gorman said: "For the Pope simply to come out and tell us that the rape and abuse of children was a heinous crime is stating the obvious at this point."
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