DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Irish Times
August 25, 2018
By Ronan McGreevy
Survivors tell pope he must hold to account religious orders who ran Mother and Baby Homes
Pope Francis has met survivors of clerical sexual abuse in Ireland and also those who spent time in industrial schools, seminaries and Mother and Baby Homes.
The pope was asked at the hour and a half long meeting on Saturday afternoon to use his influence to get the religious orders who ran the Mother and Baby Homes to “acknowledge their actions and issue an open and unqualified apology” to mothers and their children.
The meeting took place at the Papal Nuncio’s residence on Dublin’s Navan Road on the first day of the pope’s visit to Ireland, the first by a pope in 39 years.
Eight victims were present. Among them were Marie Collins, who resigned from the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors, Clodagh Malone, a survivor of St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home, and Paul Redmond who was born in a Mother and Baby home and has written the book entitled ‘The Adoption Machine’.
Fr Paddy McCafferty, who was abused as a seminarian in Wexford, and Bernadette Fahy who spent much of her childhood in the notorious Goldenbridge Orphanage, were also there.
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