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	Pope Wants to Be Briefed on Irish Church Abuse Report By Flavia Krause Jackson and Louisa Fahy Bloomberg December 7, 2009 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aobOD9NigBGM VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI invited Ireland's top clergy to Rome to be briefed on the "painful" situation in the country, two weeks after a report said Church authorities covered up abuse of children by priests. Cardinal Sean Brady and Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, will both attend on Dec. 11, the Vatican said today in an e-mailed statement. The pontiff wants "information and an evaluation," it said. Irish broadcaster RTE said today that Irish bishop Donal Murray traveled to Rome and may tender his resignation after the report criticized his handling of allegations of child sex abuse. The report, the second this year to document abuse of children by clerics in Ireland, said senior clergy moved priests to a different location when told of abuse allegations. The report examined how the Church handled claims of sex abuse against a sample of 46 priests in the Dublin diocese between 1975 and 2004. Separately, the Ryan Report, released in May, said child abuse was "endemic" in Irish institutions run by religious orders since the 1930s. Calls to Murray's Limerick diocesan office weren't immediately answered today.
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