A former student of Pope Benedict has branded clerics who ran abusive institutions as the "dregs of society".Those to blame for the violence were monsters, Fr Vincent Twomey said.
Last Friday, Cardinal Sean Brady and Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin briefed the Pope in the Vatican on the devastating Ryan inquiry and the subsequent fall-out and criticisms of religious orders.
Fr Twomey told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence programme: "I think we were looking at the dregs of society in a certain sense."
Industrial schools across Ireland were involved in endemic physical abuse and sexual predators were able to prey on the most vulnerable children, the Ryan report found.
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