IRELAND
The Herald
August 20, 2018
By Laura Larkin
A list of dozens of Irish clergy convicted of or linked to child sexual abuse is to be published for the first time today, adding to growing pressure on the Vatican.
Campaign group BishopAccountability.org, which has published similar lists of those accused of abuse in the US and South America, says it contains more than 70 names of clergy convicted of abuse or named in State inquiries.
The organisation is also calling on Pope Francis to release the names of all priests worldwide who have been disciplined by the Church for child sexual abuse and to release files relating to these people.
The group will ask Ireland’s Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, to endorse this idea to the Pope.
The pontiff will visit Ireland this weekend amid a deepening international scandal around its handling of child sexual abuse by clergy members.
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