IRELAND
The Irish Times
[Full text of the summary of the Apostolic Visitation report (PDF)]
PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Catholic Church has acknowledged “with a great sense of shame” that “innocent young people were abused by clerics and religious” in Ireland. Those “who should have exercised vigilance often failed to do so effectively”, it said.
Its acknowledgement of this “terrible phenomenon” came yesterday in a summary of reports prepared by seven teams sent by the Vatican to conduct an unprecedented examination of the island’s four Catholic archdioceses, seminaries, and religious congregations.
They made several recommendations and said it was up to the Irish church to implement the findings of the visitation teams, whose work “should now be considered completed”.
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