IRELAND
RTE News
The Catholic Church-backed watchdog on child sexual abuse has said the global leadership of the Norbertine order, of which the paedophile priest Brendan Smyth was a member, has failed to respond to its correspondence over the past three years.
Speaking after the publication of reviews of child safeguarding which found that three of four religious orders investigated have not really changed their performance in dealing with abuse, Teresa Devlin, chair of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, said she will be writing to the Abbot Superior of the order again.
The NBSCCCI criticises the De La Salle Brothers, the Norbertine order of priests and the Nazareth Sisters for failing to put in place effective pastoral responses to people who have alleged they were abused by members of the congregations.
However, it says that in the past year the De La Salle Brothers and Nazareth Sisters have engaged more fully with the NBSCCCIto improve the situation.
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