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Abuse survivor David Ryan to put ‘tough questions’ to Pope Leo XIV during private audience
02 Feb 2026 06:58 GMT
… will be the first Irish abuse survivor to meet the new … their own sexual abuse by Spiritan priests and others at … about how the Catholic Church pushed the abuse issue under the … historical child sexual abuse in all-day and boarding schools in Ireland, …
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‘I was appalled at church leaders’ indifference to reports of abuse’: Youth worker breaks silence over own fears about embattled PCI
01 Feb 2026 10:39 GMT
Woman calls for ex-safeguarding chief to be stripped of OBE, after her claims over incident involving children ‘overlooked’
Lindsay Conway speaking to Sunday Life
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A former youth worker with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) has called …
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Pope Leo apologises to Irish abuse survivor after meeting
02 Feb 2026 00:50 GMT
Pope Leo XIV has apologised to abuse survivor David Ryan, who featured in the RTÉ documentary 'Blackrock Boys', following a meeting between the two at the Vatican.
Mr Ryan described the experience as amazing and credited the Pope for his empathy.
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Ex-minister's congregations not informed of indecent child images prosectution
01 Feb 2026 12:31 GMT
… exploitation of vulnerable children.”
Addressing Simpson, he … children who unfortunately and sadly are abused … children caught up in this terrible cycle of abuse … Church in Ireland condemns absolutely, and without hesitation, all forms of abuse against children …
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Catholic diocese facing huge sex-abuse compo bill flags ‘financial uncertainty’
31 Jan 2026 06:36 GMT
… of serial child abuser Malachy Finegan, a former priest of the … the Catholic church has been in the grip of child abuse scandals since … lands”.
In 2018 former Bishop of Dromore John McAreavey … the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Kevin Winters, of …
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Pope to hold private audience with Irish abuse survivor
29 Jan 2026 06:37 GMT
… with the head of the Catholic Church about the shame and … victims of abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
He will … documentary has had on wider Irish society at the private … information relating to historical child sexual abuse in all day and …
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Society must show its abhorrence at sectarian hatred - The Irish News view
29 Jan 2026 06:38 GMT
It is impossible not to feel anything but absolute abhorrence at the targeting of a young family in Derry in a sickening sectarian attack.
Darian Moore was with his one-year-old son Ruaidhrí in the kitchen of his Waterside home on Monday when his two other …
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Archbishop Eamon Martin speaks of St. Brigid as a champion of the poor, sick and vulnerable
02 Feb 2026 12:03 GMT
… Derry-born leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland made the observation during … too often threatened by violence, abuse, inequality, commercial surrogacy, pornography, and … marginalised people; the safeguarding of children, marriage and the family; quality …
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What I Saw at the Counter-Revolution: Traditionalism at Sixty
30 Jan 2026 16:26 GMT
… . Isaac Hecker, Archbishop John Ireland, and James Cardinal Gibbons. … time, ‘A Catholic Priest Looks At His Outdated Church,’ articulated our many … So it is those Bishops currently trying not only … as it were, abused by the Church hierarchy, we often …
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Diane Munday obituary
02 Feb 2026 17:54 GMT
… Great Britain, not to Northern Ireland, and it did not give … have made me have another child.”
Fortunately, she found a Harley … Munday endured an onslaught of abuse from slights such as her … a “pagan” at her local Church of England school in Wheathampstead …