UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor 01 May 2015
The former leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales had said he feels “sorrow and shame” for allowing a known paedophile to continue working as a priest.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor admitted that his decision to appoint Michael Hill as an airport chaplain instead of reporting him to the police left him free to abuse again.
In an extract from the his memoirs published in The Tablet, the Cardinal admits that he failed at the time to recognise the lasting pain and damage sexual abuse inflicts on victims.
He uses the book to apologise to victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Britain and around the world.
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