IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Colm Kelpie, Ed Carty and Caroline Crawford
Thursday September 06 2012
A bishop was at the centre of intense controversy last night after it emerged he moved paedophile priests from one parish to another.
Dr John Kirby of the Diocese of Clonfert had explained his actions by stating he believed paedophilia to be a “friendship that had gone astray”.
The church’s child protection watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), detailed a litany of child protection failures in its latest audits focusing on four dioceses, and, for the first time, three religious congregations.
It reserved some of its most scathing criticisms for two of the congregations, highlighting that information about serial abusers was not passed on to the gardai and that one order maintained a “culture of secrecy”.
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