IRELAND
RTE News
Irish Catholic bishops have accused a member of the Vatican’s investigation team here of grossly misrepresenting the Irish Church’s ongoing outreach to clerical child sexual abuse survivors.
A statement from the hierarchy last night rejected comments by Baroness Sheila Hollins at an international conference in Rome on the sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church.
Psychiatrist Baroness Hollins had remarked that “in Ireland it is said that very few victims have had any counselling or therapy”.
Ms Hollins is one of four people appointed by Pope Benedict to investigate abuse in the Archdiocese of Armagh, where she has met dozens of survivors.
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