IRELAND
Christian Today
Church leaders were negligent when suspected incidents of sex abuse were brought to their attention, a Vatican report has concluded .
The admission was made in a report published on Tuesday examining the causes of the Irish sex abuse scandal that erupted several years ago.
The Apostolic Visitation is the culmination of a two-year investigation initiated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 following a crisis meeting with Irish bishops at the Vatican.
At the time, the Pope expressed his dismay at the extent of the abuse and subsequent cover-up exposed in the Ryan and Murphy reports.
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