IRELAND
Irish Examiner
The Catholic Church’s counselling service, Towards Healing, has extended its opening hours today and tomorrow, in response to the publication of investigations into nine dioceses and religious congregations.
This is the fifth tranche of such reports, and concerned the Arch Diocese of Dublin, the Diocese of Meath, Cloyne and Killaloe.
The review also includes The Religious Congregations of the Presentation Brothers, the Patrician Brothers, Benedictine, Glenstal and the Missionary Societies of the Columban Missionaries and the Society of Divine Word.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church has warned the fact that a priest was convicted of abusing a child just this year shows the Church needs to remain vigilant on abuse.
The Presentation Brothers were criticised in the report as they delayed for months in telling gardaí about allegations of abuse.
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