IRELAND
UTV
A major new report from the Vatican into clerical abuse expresses a “great sense of pain and shame” and calls for the church to continue devoting time to victims.
Senior Catholic leaders visited Ireland in early 2011 to investigate the implications of child abuse in each of the four archdiocese.
Publishing their findings on Tuesday, the Apostolic Visitation said the scandals have “opened wounds” and led people to lose trust in their pastors.
They found that “innocent young people were abused by clerics and religious to whose care they had been entrusted, while those who should have exercised vigilance often failed to do so effectively.”
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