VATICAN CITY
Irish Times
Paddy Agnew
Sat, Jul 5, 2014
Although the Holy See has offered no official confirmation, it seems likely that a much anticipated meeting between clerical sex abuse survivors, including Irish survivors, and Pope Francis will take place in the Vatican on Monday morning.
For much of this week, different media sources have claimed that the pope will meet a small group of survivors in his Vatican residence, the Domus Santa Marta.
It was the pope himself who announced this meeting when speaking to reporters on the papal flight on the way back to Rome, following his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
On that occasion, he did not say when the meeting would take place but he did indicate that it would be sometime in early July.
Given that the pope’s morning Mass in Santa Marta, the Vatican residential hall that he uses in preference to the pomposity of the Apostolic Palace, has become a key aspect of his pontifical teaching, it seems only logical that the survivors of abuse will be invited to attend Mass there.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.