{"id":7306,"date":"2011-09-04T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:37:25","slug":"irish-prime-minister-condemns-vatican-over-child-abuse-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/irish-prime-minister-condemns-vatican-over-child-abuse-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Prime Minister Condemns Vatican Over Child Abuse Cover Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ROBERT MACKEY<br \/>\n<em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he Vatican has recalled its ambassador to Ireland following the release of an Irish government report that the Vatican had discouraged efforts by bishops to report cases of sex abuse to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report, released on July 13, found that clergy leaders in the rural Irish diocese of Cloyne did not act on complaints against 19 priests from 1996 to 2009. It also concluded that the Vatican had encouraged bishops to ignore child-protection guidelines that included the \u201cmandatory reporting\u201d of abuse to civil authorities. (The Times has posted the complete text of the report online.)<\/p>\n<p>A brief Vatican statement explaining the decision to recall its ambassador noted, \u201cin particular, the reactions that have followed\u201d the release of the report.<a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/25\/video-of-irish-leaders-speech-attacking-the-vatican\/\"> Click here <\/a>to continue.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mo5MXrqbDeA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mo5MXrqbDeA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ROBERT MACKEY New York&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,179],"tags":[138,2936,2914,904,922,953],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-at-risk","category-child-abuse","tag-catholicism","tag-child-abuse","tag-children-at-risk","tag-sex-abuse","tag-vatican","tag-child-sex-abuse","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-179-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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