IRELAND
The Irish Times
A delegation of senior Catholic Church officials sent to Ireland by Pope Benedict in the wake of a series of clerical sex abuse scandals has proposed a number of reforms to improve child protection.
A seven-page summation of the report by the apostolic visitation was published at the Columba Centre in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth this morning at a briefing attended by Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and papal nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Charles Brown.
The report was completed after seven teams of Vatican-appointed church leaders visited Ireland. The teams visited the four Irish Archdioceses, two seminaries and the male and female congregations.
The report said changes should be made to seminaries and admission criteria for would-be priests. It found that while guidelines to protect children are being followed, academic programmes in seminaries should put more focus on the issue.
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