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	Irish PM Studies Vatican Response to Abuse Report By Mohideen Mifthah Sunday Times SRI LANKA September 3, 2011 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/world-news/10488--irish-pm-studies-vatican-response-to-abuse-report.html DUBLIN, Sept 3, 2011 (AFP) - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Saturday he would be studying the Vatican's findings on the Roman Catholic Church's handling of a child sex abuse scandal involving priests the republic. He said Dublin would comment in due course on the Vatican's long-awaited response to an official report commissioned by the Irish government that found details of a cover-up of abuse by priests over many years. Kenny told reporters that he had not yet had an opportunity to read the Vatican statement. "I need to read this report and speak to the Tanaiste (deputy prime minister and foreign minister Eamon Gilmore) and obviously the government will comment," Kenny said. A government statement was expected later Saturday. The Vatican acknowledged "grave failures" over the handling of the scandal in southern Ireland but denied that it tried to block investigations in its response Saturday. The Vatican expressed deep concern at its findings and "abhorence" for the crimes committed. July's publication of the report into more than a decade of abuse by priests in Cloyne triggered an unprecedented attack by Kenny who called the Church's behaviour "absolutely disgraceful". Ireland's Cardinal Sean Brady welcomed the statement from the Vatican, describing it as "carefully prepared and respectfully presented". "The reply conveys the profound abhorrence of the Holy See for the crime of sexual abuse and its sorrow and shame for the terrible sufferings which the victims of abuse and their families have endured within the Church of Jesus Christ, a place where this should never happen."Brady said it showed an appreciation of the seriousness of the questions raised and of the importance, especially for survivors of abuse, of effectively combating this crime. "I believe it will contribute to the healing of those who have been hurt and also to a closer working together of all concerned with the safeguarding of children," Brady said.
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