McGuinness: Vatican failed sex abuse victims

The Vatican has miserably failed the victims of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, Martin McGuinness has claimed.

The Vatican has miserably failed the victims of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, Martin McGuinness has claimed.

Amid continuing calls for Irish Primate Cardinal Seán Brady to resign over his involvement in a controversial Church probe that did not stop notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth’s reign of abuse, Stormont’s Deputy First Minister today shifted focus to Rome’s attitude to historic clerical sex crimes.

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