IRELAND
Independent
August 8, 2018
By Cormac McQuinn
Survivors of clerical sex abuse have said they are not surprised at allegations that the Vatican had tried to secure a cover-up of Church records.
Former President Mary McAleese says she received a request in 2003 from a senior Vatican official that Church documents should be protected and the State have no access to them.
At the time there were two inquiries into child abuse involving the Church in Ireland – the Ryan Commission and the Ferns Inquiry.
Ms McAleese said she immediately told the official – the Vatican’s then secretary of state Cardinal Angelo Sodano – the conversation had to stop.
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