Foreign priests missing out on child safety checks

IRELAND
The Times (UK)

Sam Griffin
February 27 2016

Concerns have been raised that visiting priests from overseas are being granted access to children without providing the proper documentation to prove they are of good standing.

It is understood the issue was raised by the Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at a recent meeting of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland which advises and monitors best practice in relation to keeping children safe.

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