The Report of the Audit of Child Safeguarding in the Archdiocese of Dublin carried out by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland was released during this week.

The Report warmly commended the diocese and our parishes for the “rational, comprehensive and integrated child safeguarding system it has developed”.   Special mention was made to the training programmes for parishes.

I would like to take this occasion to express my sincere thanks to all those in our parishes and communities – priests and lay people alike – who have dedicated their time and energies over these years to making the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Dublin the safe place for children that it has become.

I ask your prayers for victims and survivors and I ask God’s continued blessing on our work in the area of the protection of children.

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http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf

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