Continue to listen and support victims, urge authors

The apostolic visitation report strongly underlines the need for the Catholic Church to continue listening to and providing counselling services to the thousands of people abused in its care.

It also strongly supports the work of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, describing its work on devising child protection policy and ensuring its implementation, as “thorough and far-reaching”.

“It should continue to receive sufficient personnel and funding,” they add.