treatment of children - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:18:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg treatment of children - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Children in state care in NZ at all-time high https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/04/19/children-state-care-all-time-high/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:54:26 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=106202 For the 6100 children in state care - a record-high number - the current situation doesn't offer a lot of hope. With an inquiry into historic abuse of children in state care around the corner, things are also likely to get a lot darker before the year's out. Continue reading

Children in state care in NZ at all-time high... Read more]]> For the 6100 children in state care - a record-high number - the current situation doesn't offer a lot of hope.

With an inquiry into historic abuse of children in state care around the corner, things are also likely to get a lot darker before the year's out. Continue reading

Children in state care in NZ at all-time high]]> 106202 Irish archbishop slams Church treatment of children https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/23/irish-archbishop-slams-church-treatment-of-children/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:13:52 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=47417 Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has hit out at the Catholic Church's treatment of children after an official report trenchantly criticised three former Dublin archbishops for their mishandling of an abuse case. The report also found there was "shocking" police connivance with Church authorities in failing to investigate complaints. "The priest was looked after, people Read more

Irish archbishop slams Church treatment of children... Read more]]> Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has hit out at the Catholic Church's treatment of children after an official report trenchantly criticised three former Dublin archbishops for their mishandling of an abuse case.

The report also found there was "shocking" police connivance with Church authorities in failing to investigate complaints.

"The priest was looked after, people were kept quiet, and many of those children weren't even spoken to," said Archbishop Martin. "There is no way in which the Church of Jesus Christ should have treated children in that way."

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