The Bishop of Cork and Ross, Dr John Buckley, has said he believes
that the Catholic Church has learned how to deal properly with
allegations of clerical abuse and with the victims of that abuse
Dr Buckley was speaking in Cork ahead of the expected publication
later this week of a report of an investigation into how the
neighbouring Diocese of Cloyne dealt with allegations of abuse there.
Bishop Buckley has said his own diocese had responded to all
allegations of abuse and had reached out to victims through counselling.
The Bishop has said that the Catholic Church now had a network of
trained child protection volunteers throughout the country and the
system was 'monitored, independent and robust.'
Justice Minister Alan Shatter was due to publish the Murphy Commission
report on Wednesday into the handling of clerical child sex abuse
allegations in the Diocese of Cloyne.
Unfortunately this may be a few decades and a few million euros too late.
ReplyDeleteThe Bishop of Cork and Ross, Dr John Buckley, has said he believes that the Catholic Church has learned how to deal properly with allegations of clerical abuse and with the victims of that abuse
ReplyDeleteThe Cloyne Report proves him wrong.
Our Bishops clearly cannot be trusted. They seem to enter into a Faustian bargain with the Vatican whereby they hand over their personal integrity and sense of right and wrong in return for their position.
They serve not Jesus but a deeply dysfunctional Vatican. And our part of the Church (the Roman part) is imploding because of it.