IRELAND
Irish Central
By
BERNIE MALONE,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Vatican has released a report, published on Rome Reports, which was ordered by Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of the Murphy and Ryan inquiries into clerical sex abuse in Ireland.
The inquiry was carried out by the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland. It involved teams visiting all four Catholic archdioceses, seminaries and religious congregations.
The report acknowledges progress made by the Irish bishops in protecting children along with the “open wounds” left in the Catholic community. The bishops are fulfilling their promise to report new cases, however, it also commented on the profound lack of trust among the congregation and laid this blame on those priests who failed to report abuse in the past.
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