VICTIMS OF SEX CRIMES BY CHRISTIAN PRIESTS DEMAND EU 1 BILLION COMPENSATION
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Brady to hand deliver letter requesting abuse payout
By John Cooney and Breda Heffernan
The Irish Indpendent
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
A letter calling on the Vatican to provide a EU 1bn compensation
package for survivors of clerical child abuse in Ireland is to be
hand delivered to Pope Benedict by Cardinal Sean Brady, when the
Irish bishops hold summit talks with the Pontiff.
The letter from Irish survivors will also contain a request for a
meeting with the Holy Father during his visit to England in
September.
The breakthrough came at private talks in St Patrick's College,
Maynooth, yesterday involving four survivors' groups, Cardinal Brady
and bishops.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, who on Sunday told the Irish
Independent that he was engaged in his own consultations with
survivors abused by diocesan priests, did not attend the Maynooth
meeting because of other engagements.
But Dr Martin was present at the first meeting last December in
Maynooth between the four groups representing survivors of abuse in
residential institutions run by religious orders, and has voiced his
support for a bigger compensation deal.
A statement after yesterday's meeting said that four bishops -- Colm
O'Reilly of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, John McAreavey of Dromore, John
Buckley of Cork and John Fleming of Killala -- would liaise with the
survivors' representatives.
Attending the Maynooth talks were representatives of the Alliance
Support Group, Irish SOCA, and the Right to Peace and Right of Place
groups.
Summit
The statement added that the talks were part of a process of
informing the bishops of the views of survivors in their preparations
for their summit in the Vatican next Monday and Tuesday with Pope
Benedict.
Bishop McAreavey said the meeting was constructive and focused on the
ongoing concerns of survivors.
"We intend to relay these concerns to Pope Benedict, both verbally
and in the form of written submissions, which were presented to us by
survivors and which directly represent their views," added Bishop
McAreavey, a former professor of Canon Law.
Michael O'Brien, of the Right to Peace support group, said it was now
time for the Vatican and the religious orders to match the money paid
by the Irish State. The orders paid just EU 128m of the total
compensation bill of EU 1.2bn.
"He (the Pope) must come up with a substantial amount of money to
help the victims of the institutions," added Mr O'Brien. "The Vatican
is as much to blame because the religious orders were under their
auspices."
Tom Hayes, secretary of the Alliance Support Group and a former
inmate of St Joseph's Industrial School in Glin, Co Limerick, said
survivors wanted a face-to-face meeting with the Pope in September.
"We will be pointing out that when he visited America, he met with
some of the victims," Mr Hayes added. "Although he met them in
private, it was a gesture universally well received and we hope he
will do the same when he visits England."
- John Cooney and Breda Heffernan
Irish Independent
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http://www.independent.ie/national-news/victims-ask-pope-for-83641bn-2054218.html
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