Taking responsibility for children

There has been some progress but more is needed to ensure the safeguarding of children, writes Maeve Lewis

THE audits of four dioceses and four religious orders published on Wednesday give us an accurate insight into the current state of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Following a decade of child sexual abuse scandals which rocked the Church and society, has anything really changed? The audits tell us that in some areas the lessons of the Ferns, Ryan, Dublin, and Cloyne reports have been absorbed, but in others it is as if they had never been published.