IRELAND
Irish Times
August 15, 2018
By Patsy McGarry
Second US Cardinal due in Dublin criticised in report for concealment of clergy abuse
Cardinal Seán O’Malley, chair of the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors has announced he will not be attending the World Meeting of Families (WMoF) in Dublin later this month.
Archbishop of Boston Cardinal O’Malley was scheduled to chair a discussion on Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults at the WMoF on Friday August 24th. The panel includes Dublin abuse survivor Marie Collins, who resigned from the Commission for the Protection of Minors last year in protest at the frustration of its work by Vatican officials.
Also on the panel is Barbara Thorp former head of the Boston archdiocese’s child protection office, the UK’s Baroness Prof Sheila Hollins, a former member of the Commission for the Protection of Minors, and Prof Gabriel Dy-Liacco from the Philippines a member of the current Commission for the Protection of Minors.
In a short statement today, the Boston archdiocese said that “though previously scheduled to moderate a panel presentation and discussion at the World Meeting of Families, important matters pertaining to the pastoral care of St John’s Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston and the seminarians enrolled in the formation program there require the Cardinal’s personal attention and presence”.
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