{"id":147,"date":"2010-06-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/popewatch-vatican-names-irish-catholic-investigation-team.html"},"modified":"2010-06-02T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:00:00","slug":"popewatch-vatican-names-irish-catholic-investigation-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/popewatch-vatican-names-irish-catholic-investigation-team.html","title":{"rendered":"PopeWatch: U.S. Cardinal, Bishop Among Vatican Team Appointed to Investigate Irish Church Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on his apologetic letter to Irish Catholics <\/a>earlier this year, Pope Benedict has appointed a team of high-ranking clergy to conduct an Apostolic Visitation to Ireland, which has been hit hard by the clergy abuse scandal.<\/p>\n

The team, a kind of investigative commission, is a who’s who of diaspora Irish Catholic leaders: Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley of Boston, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto, Archbishop Thomas Prendergast of Ottawa, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, retired leader of English Catholicism. Starting this autumn, they will focus on Ireland’s dioceses, religous orders and seminaries.<\/p>\n

For more on this, check out Catholic News Agency’s story <\/a>and David Gibson’s piece in Politics Daily<\/a>, and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

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