RTE News
October 7, 2009
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1007/abuse.html
[with video]
Survivors of institutional abuse have met bishops at their conference in Maynooth.
The meeting, which lasted over two hours, took place at the bishops' scheduled autumn conference.
Four abuse survivors discussed the fallout of the Ryan Report with the bishops and the situation in which abuse victims now find themselves.
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Addressing the conference, survivor John Kelly said the Catholic Church had refused to accept moral responsibility for what happened in religious institutions.
He said there is a 'thundering silence' on the part of the hierarchy when mention of it making contributions to the redress scheme is raised.
The bishops' conference was told by survivors that it is now time for the Church to accept its past failings and meet its moral responsibility to its victims.
The survivors said the Church should make a meaningful contribution to the redress scheme to help draw a line under what they called the unhappy chapter in Ireland's common history.
The bishops welcomed the group to their regular Autumn meeting and apologised for the Church's failure in the past.
The meeting was the first such encounter between survivors of institutional abuse and the bishops.
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