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	Irish Catholic Communications Office: Remarks of Irish Primate on Pastoral Letter Vatican Radio March 20, 2011 http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=471466 Cardinal Brady urges everyone to read bishops' pastoral response Towards Healing and Renewal Towards Healing and Renewal outlines initiatives to enhance the personal, pastoral, spiritual and practical support available to survivors of abuse. €10m co-funding over the next five years for Towards Healing, the expanded counselling service for survivors. Opening hours extended this weekend. Statistics and free phone contact numbers for the Republic, Northern Ireland and Britain below. Meetings and dialogue between bishops and survivors of abuse to continue. Pope Benedict's 2010 pastoral letter prompts the reflections of over 3,000 people on renewal in the Church in Ireland. To coincide with the first anniversary of the Pastoral Letter of Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholics of Ireland, Irish bishops have published the pastoral response Towards Healing and Renewal. Copies of this pastoral response are available in parishes across the country and online from 7:00pm this evening. Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has encouraged everyone to read this short pastoral response to key issues raised by the Pope's letter of March 2010. Cardinal Brady said "Towards Healing and Renewal - which has been published to mark the first anniversary of Pope Benedict's Pastoral Letter - is a short but very important pastoral document. It represents part of a wider response and longer journey by the Church in offering its support to survivors of abuse on their journey to healing and peace, and in committing itself to renewal. I urge everyone to read Towards Healing and Renewal. "The publication today of Towards Healing and Renewal, along with our five-year undertaking to continue funding of the new and expanded Church counselling service for survivors of abuse, are both tangible signs of our commitment to work with all people of goodwill to ensure, as best we can, that every child on this island is properly cared for and kept safe from all forms of abuse and harm."
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