PAPAL WHITEWASH

SURVIVORS of clerical sex abuse have said the emergency summit between the Pope and Irish bishops in Rome was a complete failure.

Bishop of Cork John Buckley told Pope Benedict XVI that the current situation in Ireland was “our dark night of the soul”.

Andrew Madden, who was abused as an altar boy, said the meeting between Pope Benedict and 24 Irish bishops was “two days of the grandest window-dressing I have ever seen”.