DUBLIN (IRELAND)
La Croix International
October 29,2018
Catholic Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin says he is surprised by the lack of understanding in Rome that the basis of the current clergy sex abuse crisis lies within its religious culture.
Speaking at the National Child Safeguarding Conference in Kilkenny Oct. 28 the archbishop also warned against “slippage into false confidence,” reported independent.ie.He pointed out that church leaders were too slow to open up to victims and survivors, or understand the role they could play in addressing abuse.
More work needs to be done to “bring healing to those who have suffered” he said.”The church all too slowly began to open up to them, not just as victims and survivors, but also with the realization without their participation and protagonism we would never understand and address the challenge,” he said.
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