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Irish Times

Patsy McGarry

Mon, May 12, 2014

Progress in child safeguarding remains “slower” for religious congregations and missionary societies, the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog has found.

The National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) makes the observation in a general comments on the reviews of four dioceses and five religious congregations it will publish this afternoon.

It found that “all dioceses are making very good progress” in adhering to the required NBSC standards but that “for the religious congregations and missionary societies, progress appears slower”.

However it felt that “there has been a sea change in that all are now conscious of their obligations around reporting, unfortunately in two cases ( one congregation) we saw that priests continued in ministry even though admissions were made and in another order cases against deceased brothers, former brothers and lay teachers were not always notified to the gardaí”.

Generally though…