IRELAND
Irish Independent
DAVID QUINN – 13 DECEMBER 2013
It is a remarkable thing that in the various interviews he has granted to date, Pope Francis hasn’t been asked to reflect in any substantial way at all on the clerical child abuse scandals.
On his flight back from World Youth Day in Brazil a few months ago, he spent 80 minutes answering questions from journalists and the matter did not come up.
When he granted a lengthy and widely reported interview to various Jesuit publications more recently, again, he was not asked about it.
And when the atheist founder of one of Italy’s leading newspapers, ‘La Repubblica’, interviewed him shortly after that, it did not occur to the interviewer to bring it up.
Here in Ireland, the Catholic Church’s child protection office has published its latest audits of the child protection procedures of a selection of the country’s dioceses and religious orders.
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