IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Colm Kelpie, Paul Melia and Fionnan Sheahan
Wednesday March 21 2012
SURVIVORS of clerical abuse last night reacted with fury to the Vatican’s long-awaited report into the handling of child sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church.
Despite the appointment of four senior churchmen to study the abuse crisis, the Vatican had not explained its role in protecting children from paedophile priests and the subsequent cover-up, victims’ groups claimed.
And support group the Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) revealed it had asked the investigators for a meeting, but were told they did not have enough time to talk to them.
Two years after the so-called Apostolic Visitation was promised by Pope Benedict, a seven-page summary report was published yesterday, with no further details of the investigation expected to be released.
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