UNITED KINGDOM
The Press Association
The leader of Catholics in England and Wales is “grief stricken” over incidents of child sexual abuse in Catholic schools, Education Secretary Michael Gove has said.
Mr Gove said he had “absolute confidence” that decisions taken by Archbishop Vincent Nichols would be the “right ones” following calls from a group of lawyers for a public inquiry into abuse within church organisations in England and Wales.
“I know from the conversations that I have had with Vincent Nichols that he takes the pastoral care of children in Catholic schools extremely seriously and he is grief stricken by what has happened to children who were entrusted to Catholic schools,” Mr Gove said. “I think it is right in the first instance for Archbishop Nichols and his team to consider and reflect on how to respond.
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