IRELAND
The Irish Times
[Murphy Report: Fr. Benito – BishopAccountability.org]
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
A WOMAN who was the child safeguarding representative in a Dublin Catholic parish for over a decade has resigned following her discovery last month that a priest serving there until recently had been on “restricted ministry” for years. It followed allegations of child sex abuse against him.
She had also not been informed that the same priest was the subject of a chapter in the 2009 Murphy report on clerical sexual abuse.
The parish pastoral council was not given any of this information about the priest either. It remains unclear just how much information the current parish priest there had been told about the priest, who was given the pseudonym Fr Benito in the Murphy report.
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