Cardinal Cormac Murphy-OConnor to lead Vatican paedophile inquiry

David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent ,}

The former personality of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales is to examine the Irish paedophile clergyman scandal, the Vatican voiced yesterday.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-OConnor, the former Archbishop of Westminster, who stepped down last year, was criticised over his doing of ecclesiastic passionate abuse allegations.

Victims groups demanded his abdication in 2002 when Father Michael Hill was locked up for seventeen years after the Cardinal allocated the clergyman to Gatwick airfield notwithstanding warnings that he could be a risk to children.

The Cardinal and churchmen from the US and Canada will examine defence procedures and protocols in the Catholic Church in Ireland after dual reports last year that suggested decades of abuse and cover-ups by Church and state authorities.

Cardinal Murphy-OConnor pronounced he hoped that the Apostolic Visitation will yield Pope Benedict XVI with a consummate research of protections in Ireland.

Putting the defence of young kids and all exposed people at the heart of each aspect of the Churchs hold up is essential, he said.

The Dublin Archbishop, Diarmuid Martin, a supporter for remodel in the Church, pronounced that the Visitation was an critical component in the routine put in place by Pope Benedict to benefit the renovation of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

The Visitation will proceed the work in the archdioceses of Armagh, Dublin, Cashel and Emly and Tuam prior to being lengthened to alternative dioceses.

In a matter from Rome the Vatican pronounced that it will proceed in the autumn.

Through this Visitation, the Holy See intends to suggest benefit to the bishops, clergy, eremite and lay true as they find to reply sufficient to the incident caused by the comfortless cases of abuse perpetrated by priests and eremite on minors, the Vatican said.

It is additionally dictated to minister to the preferred devout and dignified renovation that is already being energetically pursued by the Church in Ireland.

An Apostolic Visitation is a grave but personal process, instituted by the Holy See, to see in to the gratification of a sold aspect of the Church.

The Vatican allocated Cardinal Murphy-OConnor to Armagh; Cardinal Sean Patrick OMalley, Archbishop of Boston, to Dublin; the Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Christopher Collins, for Cashel and Emly; and the Archbishop of Ottawa, Terrence Thomas Prendergast, for Tuam.

Irish bishops pronounced that they would co-operate with the plan.

Separately, the Pope has supposed the abdication of Richard Anthony Burke, the Irish pontiff Archbishop of Benin City, who is indicted of molesting a teenage girl.