Abuse survivor Marie Collins is to speak at a Vatican summit in Rome today attended by a number of senior Cardinals and Bishops.

Catholic leaders from around the world are in Rome for a Vatican summit to find ways to root out paedophilia in the clergy.

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The Pope said today he hoped his forthcoming letter to Irish Catholics on the sex abuse scandal in the Church helps with the process of “repentance, healing and renewal”.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin tonight rejected claims a Vatican summit to discuss clerical abuse scandals in Ireland was a wasted opportunity.

Survivors of clerical abuse tonight demanded leadership and accountability from Pope Benedict as bishops prepared for a major Vatican summit over the devastating scandals.

Twenty-four Irish Catholic bishops will travel to Rome this weekend for a Vatican summit on the issue of clerical child sex abuse.

IN calling for a Vatican Council III, my old sparring partner TP O’Mahony (‘Vatican must change’, January 2) shows that more than 40 years later he still hankers for the 1960s when the speculations of German theologians at Vatican II press briefings prompted Irish reporters to be commentators playing the speculation game.

WHEN Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was made Pope, the Catholic world collectively gasped in astonishment.

Some advocates for sex abuse victims have said Pope John Paul II’s first public comments in Canada on priests who molest children sent the wrong message: that the Roman Catholic Church cares more about clergy than those who were abused.

Westlife are reported to be performing in front of the Pope tonight.