IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
The Vatican has been accused of not accepting responsibility for its role in the cover-up of the sex abuse of children in Ireland.
Campaigners for survivors of clerical abuse criticised a recommendation from Rome to separate trainee Catholic priests from ordinary students in universities, claiming it would segregate seminaries from the real world.
A new report on the clerical abuse crisis in Ireland found while guidelines to protect children against paedophile priests are being followed, measures must be taken to ensure trainees are properly prepared for the role.
Child protection classes will be introduced for seminaries, who should also have separate living quarters to focus on prayer and finding their priestly identity, it said.
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