“He said that he will be making “added efforts” to get in contact with survivors of abuse in the diocese who wanted apologies or counselling.”
How about those who want justice?

in the media today they repeated that they ‘lacked training’ in safeguarding children and protecting children.
to bugger and rape little children is a crime and always was.
training does not take over the natural instinct to protect the young, and know right from wrong.
when you hear of child rape and other heinous crimes, you instinctively remove the perpertrator, call the police and have the guy punished/ end of story.
training, my a….tell me the mother or father who needed training in protecting their children from harm?

Again, Too Little Too Late

It is important to note that this report, and the other five released today, were edited by the bishop before publication rendering them somewhat suspect.

The report was conducted by the *National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church* In other words, catholic church investigating the catholic church, seen by and edited by the same bishops who are found to have made “significant errors”. No wonder Hegarty ‘retired’ last month, no doubt he’ll be unavailable to answer any awkward questions! Same old story with this mob, they do all they can to avoid, hinder and refuse to cooperate with investigations then they delay them for as much as possible before finally letting them out heavily edited and cleaned up by the bishops they criticise and then we get the usual bleating and sorrow routine which by now is so well practised by these bishops etc, that they are totally meaningless. Today we also hear that Brady has settled out of court with the remaining victim whom he silenced back in the 70′s and which allowed the evil predator priest Smyth to carry on abusing just as McFeely, Hegarty and Wallace did nothing to stop Greene. These bishops yet again have failed to protect children and yet again they failed to deal with the pedophiles who they knew only too well were abusing children, the ‘significant errors’ are in fact children, not errors they are children who because of the bishops inaction and cover up’s have been abused, raped, buggered, that’s the reality of it. Whilst these pathetic bishops dress it up with words the real truth is that they like so many others in the higher echelons of the Irish catholic church put the protection of the churches reputation above that of the children who were being abused by monsters like Greene and many others, As for saying it was a ‘minority’, Raphoe: 52 allegations reported to gardaí against 14 priests. Tuam: 25 allegations reported to gardaí against 18 priests. Kilmore: Seven allegations reported to gardai against seven priests. Derry: 31 allegations reported to gardai against 23 priests. Dromore: 35 allegations of abuse against 10 priests. Ardagh & Clonmannoise: 14 allegations reported to gardai against 13 priests. Even one pedophile is one too many and these bishops must know that along with everyone else. They have once again been shown up for what they are, morally bankrupt with zero credibility and they certainly have no right to preach to anyone about decency or morality given their own moral failures!

“terrible deed that have been inflicted on so many by a small minority of priests”. I’m sick of hearing this small minority of priests crap, yes it was a small minority of priests that abused children .. but there was a lot more involved in the cover up! That’s where you really see the catholic church for what it is.

Now, let’s be reasonable, we’ve known for a long time that the first rule of the Let’s Abuse Kids Club has always been ‘don’t talk about abusing kids’

This says it all:
“The report had originally been due to be published in August but was delayed when the head of the investigation asked for additional time to seek more information from Catholic authorities.”

They still block and obstruct and have no respect for the law of the land.

“The board is reviewing every diocese in the country to examine how Catholic authorities dealt with allegations against priests.”
Pointless exercise if the best they can come up with is that there were “significant” errors made by bishops. They should start by acknowledging the systematic cover up, from the top down, of crimes against children by predators into whose care they were entrusted.

The catholic church is dying in Ireland and in 20 years will be gone for good, no-one to blame but the people running it, These bastards should be squeezed and then thrown in jail with the hardened criminals, never mind a special wing for themselves where they’re protected.

They just love to jump on the bandwagon and try and make us feel bad about criticizing them that priest who was slandered by rte that was tragic sloppy opportunistic journalism but ultimately who was to blame the bishops and the hierarchy of the catholic church they think they have a god given right to make mistakes apologize and its all right whereas if rte get it wrong pull the program off the air and launch investigations and fire everyone involved which they should but the church should do it first otherwise shut the f*£& up

The catholic church is a disgusting, preposterous, redundant, evil, hierarchical, misogynistic, homophobic organisation, which preys (as opposed to prays) on the vulnerable and the ignorant. And the successive governments (in this country and in others), and their agencies and adherents, too, who have for decades turned a blind eye to its nefarious activities, are just as culpable. This has never been about ‘a few bad eggs’. It’s rotten through and through. If you are a believer, read the words of Jesus, unmediated by these huckster middlemen in dresses. Enough is enough.

All of the red-tumbs and not one of them had the courage to state their opinion. This seems oddly common in any story on the RCC.

“Significant” ???

Understatement of the year right there!

I’m an atheist, thank god (!).

Diego, please run along to mass and say a few wee prayers to your imaginary god, there’s a good fellow.