IRELAND
Irish Independent
Kevin Doyle and Niall O’Connor
March 13 2017
Religious congregations need to “measure up” and take responsibility for the restitution owed to victims of abuse, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.
Speaking in Philadelphia, Mr Kenny said the Catholic Church had not lived up to expectations in terms of compensation.
He said the Church must “measure up in so far as accepting responsibility or agreements as far as restitution is concerned and get on with it”.
Asked whether the Pope should intervene in order to put pressure on religious orders to pay more in compensation, Mr Kenny replied: “I would expect that the congregations and the Church would reflect on the seriousness of this and measure up to their requirements.
“I referred a number of matters to the Pope when I met with him last year and I would expect that the Vatican would respond to those.”
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