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Papal Legate to the 50th International Eucharistic Congress Cardinal Marc Ouellet has met a representative group of survivors of clerical child abuse.
The meeting, which took place during the Legate’s pilgrimage to Lough Derg, lasted two hours during which each survivor spoke of their personal experiences of abuse and its impact on their lives.
The group included representatives of institutional and clerical abuse, both men and women, from different parts of the island of Ireland.
Cardinal Ouellet undertook the penitential pilgrimage on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI as a public expression of penance and repentance for the abuse of children by clerics in the Irish and universal Catholic church.
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