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Tue 06 Jun 2009Vatican expected to respond to Ryan abuse report
THE VATICAN is expected to respond publicly to the Ryan report, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has said.
Commenting yesterday on the meetings in Rome last week involving him, the Catholic primate Cardinal Seán Brady, seven cardinal-prefects of the Roman Curia and Pope Benedict, Archbishop Martin said the pope was “very visibly upset” to hear of some of the things in the Ryan report – “how the children had suffered from the very opposite of an expression of the love of God”.
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