Notification of Safeguarding Audit in the Limerick Diocese
- 01 February 2020
Bishop Leahy has invited the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCCI) to undertake an audit of the safeguarding arrangements in the Diocese of Limerick.
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Pope Francis forms Child Protection Task Force
- 28 February 2020
Following up on a plan announced at last year’s Meeting for the Protection of Minors in the Church, Pope Francis has launched a task force to help Bishops’ Conferences prepare and update child protection guidelines.
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Day of Prayer for Victims of Abuse
- 28 February 2020
The annual Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims of Sexual Abuse will take place on Friday 28 February 2020, the first Friday of Lent.
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The steps accomplished after the meeting on "The Protection of Minors in the Church"
- 26 February 2020
In November 2018, the Holy Father entrusted to Most Reverend Substitute, the task of assisting the Organizing Committee for the Meeting on “The Protection of Minors in the Church”, composed of Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, His Excellency Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna and Father Hans Zollner, in the preparation of said Meeting, which was then held in the Vatican from 21-24 February 2019.
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Safer Internet Day
- 11 February 2020
‘Every child’s life is unique, meaningful and precious and every child has a right to dignity and safety. Yet today, global society is failing its children. Millions of children are being abused and exploited in tragic and unspeakable ways, and on an unprecedented scale all over the world.’
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Police uncovering 'epidemic of child abuse' in 1970s and 80s
- 05 February 2020
PM told to say sorry for remark about ‘spaffing’ money up wall as 4,024 claims lead to guilty verdicts
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