Apology Cloyne Child Rape Report Catholic Church

A letter of apology to the victims of clerical child abuse will be read out at masses in the Co Cork diocese of Cloyne today. How do you apologise for concealing and covering up the systematic rape of children by a ruthless and organised gang of Homophiles who used the Catholic Church to rape the innocence of hundreds of children.

We need further investigations across the country when we are now told that priests have concealed child abuse all over Ireland, we are told that a priest in Monaghan town told a women to go home and forget about it when she told him that her daughter was being sexually abused by her husband, if this is true then we need to know if Bishop Joe Duffy knew about such child abuse and what was his instructions to his priests.

Archbishop Dermot Clifford said the sexual abuse of children by priests in the diocese deserved utter condemnation.

He apologised for what he called the consistent failure to report allegations of abuse to the Gardaí and the health authorities.

He said the people of Cloyne were entitled to expect that all abuse complaints would be handled according to official Church guidelines and he was truly sorry that this had not happened.

This is the first time Archbishop Clifford has directly addressed the people of the diocese on the Murphy Commission report.

The Murphy Commission report, published earlier this week, revealed that the Vatican backed the Cloyne diocese in ignoring the Irish Church's own guidelines on child protection.