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  Church "More Serious on Abuse"

Press Association
January 21, 2011

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hW5haGkZWAOZqOlnl_HtZImQX3kg?docId=N0290991295622130457A

The Catholic Church is taking clerical abuse in Ireland more seriously, victims have said.

Retired Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor met campaigners in Newry, Co Down, on Friday.

An apostolic visitation was announced by Pope Benedict in March last year in a pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland. The publication of reports into abuse in Catholic institutions in the Republic prompted the decision.

 
 

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