IRELAND/VATICAN CITY
Irish Times

Patsy McGarry

Mon, Apr 13, 2015

An unscheduled meeting on Sunday between a working group of the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors and its chairman Cardinal Seán O’Malley, about the controversial appointment of a Chilean bishop, went “very well”, Dublin survivor Marie Collins has said.

Bishop Juan Barros Madrid was installed as Bishop of Osorno, Chile, last month amid serious protests. Chilean survivors accuse him of covering up abuse by Fr Fernando Karadima, and of witnessing abuse by the priest. In 2011 the Vatican found Fr Karadima, once a key Church figure in Chile, guilty of sexually abusing minors.

The only Irish member of the Vatican Commission Marie Colline, UK survivor Peter Saunders, London-based psychiatrist Baroness Sheila Hollins, and French child/adolescent psychiatrist Dr Catherine Bonnet, met Cardinal Seán O’Malley in Rome. He is there for a meeting of the so-called C9 Council of…