IRELAND
RTÉ News
March 14, 2018
By Joe Little
The Catholic bishops have said they will fully cooperate with any statutory inquiry into clerical child sexual abuse, following former President Mary McAleese’s call for a public inquiry into the Church’s response to child abuse allegations against Father Malachy Finegan.
Responding to the call by former President McAleese for a public inquiry into the Church’s response to child abuse allegations against Finegan in the northern diocese of Dromore, a spokesman re-issued the bishop’s statement on child safeguarding published following last week’s regular Spring meeting of the hierarchy.
It recalled that the bishops met John Morgan and Teresa Devlin, the chair and CEO of the church-established National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI).
It continued: “Irrespective of improved standards, vigilance and greater awareness, bishops agreed that the Church can never become complacent concerning the safeguarding of children.
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