Victims of a north Cork priest, named in the Cloyne report as Father Ronat, have given evidence to a secret canonical court which can recommend his defrocking.

Cloyne diocese is to publish a newsletter dedicated to safeguarding children.

Communities will be involved in any plans to radically reorganise the amount of dioceses in this country, according to the summary report presented by the Vatican team who visited the country last year.

VICTIMS of Fr Ronat, the priest at the centre of the latest Cloyne report, have said that they have “little interest” in meeting Bishop John Magee and former child protection delegate, Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan — unless the media is present.

IT would be nice to think that the publication of the final details of the Cloyne Report represented some sort of closure for those abused by the priests of the diocese.

FR RONAT had an “obsessive and unhealthy” relationship with a teenage boy whom he used to take to sporting events but was also taking into his bed.

The abuse of thousands of innocent children in State and church run institutions in Ireland amounted to torture, a scathing report from Amnesty has found.

THE child protection tsar in Cloyne wrote to clerical abuse victims to tell them he had done everything he could to help them obtain justice — even though the Cloyne report revealed the opposite to be true.

CATHOLICS should not contribute to any special collections organised by dioceses in financial trouble as a result of having to pay large sums to victims of clerical sex abuse, a government TD has urged.

Monsignor Denis O'Callaghan - who was responsible for child protection in the diocese of Cloyne - has admitted that he should have resigned as a child protection delegate.

WITH the notable exception of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and a handful of like-minded bishops, it is abundantly clear that many people in this country have lost faith in the hierarchy to deal openly and honestly with the grave issue of child sex abuse.

THE Catholic Bishops Conference, in a synchronised set of four announcements in March 2009, advised that Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Archbishop of Cashel & Emly as Apostolic Administrator to the Diocese of Cloyne at the request for Bishop John Magee.

Priests from all over Cork were due to meet today to air their views on the findings of the Cloyne Report.

A PRIEST from the Diocese of Cloyne has called on diocesan officials to provide details of the 1999 unfair dismissal case, which was withdrawn after Bishop John Magee reportedly paid the former employee £40,000 and demanded a confidentiality clause.

Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan is calling on Bishop John Magee to answer questions raised by the Cloyne report in front of the Justice Committee.

CLOYNE Diocese used the profits from a community radio windfall to help pay its abuse bills.

ONCE it was: “Who shot JR?“

THE Archbishop of Dublin has accused bishops of “hiding” unpublished child abuse reports rather than making them public.

FOR so long Bishop John Magee’s toughest battle in St Colman’s Cathedral was in trying to change and modernise an ancient structure that was protected by law.

IT could be a number of months before two Garda reviews of the Cloyne report will be in a position to determine whether or not criminal investigations should be launched.

Parishioners in Co Cork are hearing a letter of apology being read in Mass this morning from the Archbishop Dermot Clifford.

Parishioners in the Diocese of Cloyne will hear a letter written by the Archbishop Dermot Clifford at masses this evening and tomorrow morning.

MASS-GOERS should boycott church collections tomorrow, according to a priest who left the Diocese of Cloyne 12 years ago over his disgust at the covering-up of sex abuse.

PRESSURE is growing on Bishop John Magee to return home to deal with the fallout from the damning Cloyne report, as the Government demands answers from the Vatican regarding its “inappropriate intervention” in child protection here.

THE Cloyne Diocese hierarchy spent 10 times more on legal fees and advice than it did on counselling services for abuse victims who came forward.

THE Government is on collision course with the Vatican after Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore demanded an explanation from Rome regarding what he called the “in appropriate intervention in the laws of our country”.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to seek a meeting with the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland over Rome’s role in the Cloyne scandal.

THE Church showed favour to accused priests and systematically failed abuse victims, a junior minister who fought to reveal the truth in Cloyne has said.

A WOMAN who was sexually assaulted in an industrial school by the priest who referred her to the institution was denied money towards counselling because Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan was afraid of giving “compensation by subterfuge”.

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A BOARDING school pupil said he was told to “keep his mouth shut” by an alleged abuser who was ordered to step down after regularly drinking with pupils late at night in his room.

THE Diocese of Cloyne failed to adequately investigate claims by an elderly stroke patient that he was abused as a child in a priest’s home after confession.

A PARISH priest admitted abusing three children for a number of years and when he was younger, he said fondled up to six girls.

A MAN was deemed to be entering priesthood for “the wrong reasons” and scored very highly on the psychosis scale, but then went on to be suspected of abusing children after spiking their drinks in three Cloyne parishes.

THE victim called Philip informed Bishop John Magee in March 2002 that he had been abused by the priest in about 1936 when he was aged 12.

A PRIEST was allowed have music lessons taught at his house more than seven years after he was removed from his ministry due to an allegation of child sex abuse.

AN Irish priest at the centre of two hidden abuse claims in Australia was allowed to retire to Ireland where he attacked and sexually abused at least one young boy in the priest’s private home.

THE commission criticised the make-up of an inter-diocesan case management advisory committee set up in 2005 by the Diocese of Cloyne in conjunction with the Diocese of Limerick.

THE head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has admitted that the Vatican’s attitude to the Church’s efforts to introduce child protection measures in Ireland was not helpful.

MONSIGNOR Denis O’Callaghan — the senior cleric charged with investigating complaints of child sexual abuse against priests in the Diocese of Cloyne — opposed the Catholic Church’s own child protection guidelines.

BISHOP John Magee last night stood accused of lying to the state over child protection procedures in the Cloyne Diocese, where he and his senior assistant failed a succession of victims of clerical sex abuse.

Structures have been put in place to ensure the devastating revelations of the Cloyne Report never happen again, the cleric overseeing the diocese pledged tonight.

The Vatican’s attitude to the Church’s efforts to introduce child protection measures in Ireland was not helpful, Cardinal Sean Brady admitted.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has come under pressure from Cabinet colleagues to summon the Pope’s Irish ambassador over Rome‘s role in the Cloyne scandal.