IRELAND
Irish Independent
PUBLISHED 11 MARCH 2014
Outspoken abuse campaigner Christine Buckley has written to the Pope expressing her outrage at his “apparently apathetic approach to heinous acts of depravity” carried out by members of the clergy.
In 2009, Mrs Buckley, who was named European Volunteer of the Year, called on Pope Benedict to visit Ireland and spend seven days in repentance here.
In an open letter, the director of the Aislinn centre said that while in Ireland the Pope should help Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in a “major spring-cleaning” of the Catholic Church here.
She told him he should invite abuse survivors to tell him “their harrowing tales in the presence of those responsible for their suffering or the leaders of those organisations that were responsible”.
Mrs Buckley spent part of her childhood in the notorious Goldenbridge orphanage in Inchicore, Dublin.
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