IRELAND
Irish Central
By PADDY CLANCY, Irish Voice Reporter
Published Sunday, July 21, 2013
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Diarmuid Martin has hit out at the church’s lack of concern for children abused by priests.
He was responding to a just-published report which was severely critical of three previous archbishops of Dublin including Cardinal Desmond Connell.
The report, Chapter 20 of the investigation by Judge Yvonne Murphy into abuses in the Dublin Archdiocese, was released for publication by the High Court on Friday although the rest of the judge’s findings were published in November 2009.
Chapter 20 was censored from the initial publication pending trial of defrocked priest Patrick McCabe.
The chapter, when finally published last week, found there was “shocking” Garda (police) “connivance” with the church authorities when one serious complaint was stifled, there was failure to investigate another, and McCabe was allowed by his superiors to leave the country.
Martin, hitting out at the lack of concern for children abused by priests, said Chapter 20’s criticisms of the church showed “there was concern for everybody except the child.”
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