The
leader of the Church in Ireland has said it would be a “mistake” for
the Synod of Bishops to overlook the “shattering” effects of clerical
child sex abuse on families.
Archbishop Eamon Martin criticised the synod’s working
document which he claimed had “failed to recognise the awful shattering
of family life that can be caused by abuse”. The Archbishop of Armagh made his remarks to The Irish Catholic
from Rome following his own personal intervention at the Synod on the
Family which focused primarily on the issue of sexual abuse and domestic
violence.
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