Archbishop: Strong forces want to hide truth on abuse

STRONG forces within the Church do not want the truth about child abuse to emerge, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said last night.

On a “purely personal level,” he said never since becoming Archbishop of Dublin had he “felt so disheartened and discouraged about the level of willingness to really begin what is going to be a painful path of renewal and of what is involved in that renewal”.

Referring to the “drip-by-drip never-ending revelation about child sexual abuse and the disastrous way it was handled,” he said there are “still strong forces which would prefer that the truth did not emerge.