The sexual abuse scandal is not over according to the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin.
Speaking on 60 Minutes program, Martin said “There’s a real danger today of people saying, ‘The child abuse scandal is over. Let’s bury it. Let’s move on,'” he told CBS report Bob Simon.
“It isn’t over. Child protection and the protection of children is something that will go on…for the rest of our lives and into the future. Because the problems are there,” says the archbishop.
Asked by Simon whether the Catholic Church in Ireland has reached its breaking point, Martin responded, “It has reached a breaking point and is at a very difficult stage in its life.”
Martin has been consistent in his view. Last year, in a service of atonement for sexual abuse victims, he told the congregation that there is a long path to journey, in honesty, before we (the church) can truly merit forgiveness.
Archbishop Martin is one of the highest ranking church officials to openly criticise the Catholic Church’s handling of sexual abuse.
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