IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
It was “appalling” that some major religious congregations had delayed in fully implementing the Irish Catholic Church’s child protection guidelines and that “in some cases this process only really got under way in 2013”, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said.
The delays had left him “seriously concerned”.
He said: “The failure of any single Church organisation to implement the common norms casts a shadow over the credibility of the entire safeguarding efforts of the Catholic Church. ” It was also an affront to Pope Francis, he said.
Archbishop Martin was responding to findings in the latest, seventh tranche of reviews from the Church’s child protection agency, the Maynooth-based National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC).
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