Abuse compensation - Obligations shirked

As ever, actions speak louder than words.

Every report on child sexual abuse by Catholic clerics is followed by seemingly sincere apologies from the successors of the Church leaders who presided over this terrible episode.

Though we all must accept society’s role in this active evil, the primary responsibility still rests with the organisation that administered the institutions where this abuse took place, the organisation that did so much to protect the abusive criminals in its ranks.

It is utterly disheartening, so, to report today that the Catholic Church in Ireland is not meeting its obligations in regard to compensating victims.

The organisation seems to have a death wish and a desire to squander whatever little credibility it had left.