Sex abuse survivors set to meet Martin
Marie Collins, Andrew Madden and One in Four chief executive Maeve Lewis will meet with the archbishop to discuss “disgust” at the Vatican’s statement following the meeting. Andrew Madden said he wants to ask the archbishop two questions.
“Firstly, can he tell us why the submissions made by survivors were ignored and secondly, did he ask the Pope, before he left Rome, how he and the other bishops could face survivors and the people of Ireland when there was no acknowledgement of us and our statements in the proceedings,” he said. Maeve Lewis said even the most hardened survivors, who spent many years battling with the Catholic Church over clerical abuse, were shocked at the contents of the Vatican statement.
