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	Apostolic Administrator of Clyone Welcomes Report Vatican Radio July 13, 2011 http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=504180 priest.png The Apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Clyone, Archbishop Dermot Clifford of Cashel and Emly, has welcomed the findings of the government commissioned report into the diocese of Clyone and has “humbly apologised” on his own behalf and on behalf of its clergy, “to all who suffered and their families.” This is the fourth report into abuse in the Catholic Church, after the report in the Ferns diocese in 2005, the Ryan Report into abuse in residential institutions in 2009 and the Dublin report in 2009. The Commission of Investigation into the Catholic diocese of Cloyne published its report Wednesday. Headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy. The report - which covers the Diocese of Cloyne once headed by Bishop John Magee - was ordered after a probe by the Church's own child safeguarding watchdog (the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church) found that policies in the diocese were inadequate. The Cloyne Report contains 26 chapters, is about 400 pages long, and includes findings on all 19 priests – diocesan and religious - who faced abuse allegations there over the 13-year period investigated. In short, it looks at the handling of abuse between January 1, 1996, when the Church in Ireland first introduced child protection guidelines, and February 1, 2009. The commissioners were not tasked with establishing whether child sexual abuse took place or whether there was a basis for suspicions or concerns. Instead, they investigated how the Church authorities in the diocese dealt with allegations.Listen : RealAudioMP3 The report states “the response of the Diocese of Cloyne to complaints and allegations of clerical child sexual abuse in the period 1996 to 2008 was inadequate and inappropriate”. It faults the then Bishop of the diocese, Bishop John Magee, for having failed to oversee the implementation of the Churches’ own guidelines on the handling and reporting of allegations. It states he took "little or no active interest" in the how allegations of clerical sexual abuse cases were dealt with and “failed to supervise subordinates”. The report concludes that the failure to report cases of allegations to civil authorities was the greatest failure. The diocese failed to alert police in about 9 out of 15 cases that “very clearly” should have been reported Cardinal Sean Brady, primate of Ireland, said it was another "dark day in the history of the response of church leaders to the cry of children abused by church personnel". Archbishop Dermot Clifford concluded “It appals me that, up to 2008, 13 years after these procedures were put in place, they were still not being implemented in the Diocese of Cloyne. This means that the Church authorities in Cloyne failed some of those who were abused by not adhering to their commitments when dealing with complaints”.
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