IRELAND
The Journal
BOTH THE BENEDICTINE and Columban orders have been given good reports by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI).
The NBSCCCI today published the fifth tranche of reviews on child safeguarding in a number of dioceses, with the orders both found to have fully or partially met nearly all of the criteria outlined to them.
The Benedictine Campus at Glenstal Abbey is found to have one major challenge, that being a guest house that can hold 14 people at a time.
The report says that this should be handled by asking visiting monks and priests to sign declarations and by keeping a record of who is there.
It also says that Garda vetting of existing monks needs to be brought up to date and that a training audit be completed.
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