IRELAND
The Journal
THE POPE’S PERSONAL representative to the International Eucharistic Congress has met with a group of survivors of clerical sexual abuse – and asked them for foregiveness for the abuse.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet met with the victims, from both sides of the border, during a two-day pilgrimage to Lough Derg.
After the meeting Ouellet celebrated Mass at St Patrick’s Basilica where he said Pope Benedict XVI had asked him to come to Lough Derg and ask for God’s forgiveness for any instance where someone had been abused anywhere in the Church.
“I come here with the specific intention of seeking forgiveness, from God and from the Victims, for the grave sin of sexual abuse of children by clerics,” he said in his homily.
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