IRELAND
RTE news
In a radical policy shift, the Catholic bishops in Ireland are to organise a Day of Prayer for the survivors and victims of clerical sexual abuse on the first Friday of Lent next year.
It is to take place on 3 March 2017.
In a statement issued following their regular autumn meeting in Maynooth, the hierarchy said the move is in response to a recent request by Pope Francis to bishops’ conferences around the world.
The papal initiative was at the behest of his Commission for the Protection of Minors (CPM).
The move indicates a major change in attitude on the part of the Irish bishops’ conference.
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