“You never get used to it, and you can feel your heart and soul hurting.”

Pope calls upon those present at vital safeguarding conference to “hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice” and to be concrete.

“The example of Ireland is a very good one if the Church would look at it more closely and extrapolate from it out to the wider Church and then from that into society, in areas where there are not good practices” – anti-abuse campaigner Marie Collins.

“I want to give [the faithful] the opportunity to reflect and to pray and put pen to paper to me if they wish”.

“In the early New Year I will plan for further meetings to enable meaningful and constructive engagement with survivors and others in advance of the Rome convention,” says Archbishop Eamon Martin.

“Let it be clear that before these abominations the Church will spare no effort to do all that is necessary to bring to justice whosoever has committed such crimes.”

Martin Long has been the bishops’ spokesman and has headed up the communications office in Maynooth since 2003.

Final Report of Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse questions mandatory clerical celibacy, the inviolability of the seal of confession, and criticises culture of clericalism.

www.protectionofminors.va provides resources across four categories: ‘Healing and Care’, ‘Guidelines’, ‘Education’, and the ‘Day of Prayer [for the Victims and Survivors of Sexual Abuse]’.

Spotlight will set off 'hand grenades' of pain in hearts of abuse survivors and as a Church we can never be complacent about child protection: Archbishop of Dublin.

“The commission members took a vote and apart from one abstention they agreed that they could no longer continue to work with me.”

I have an “obligation to the people who work with me and to the truth to clarify these things” church leader explains.

Cardinal O'Malley "listened carefully to all our concerns and will be bringing them to the Holy Father in the next week” - Marie Collins.

Clerical abuse survivor, Marie Collins, and former president, Dr Mary McAleese, reject Pontiff's stance on corporal punishment for children.

Polish prelate was recalled to Vatican after Archbishop of Santo Domingo informed Pope of allegations against him.

Pope to address the commission once all members have been appointed.

Report shows 164 allegations notified to National Office between April 2013 and March 2014.

Fr Eugene Boland cleared of allegation of abuse resigns as parish priest as stress takes its toll.

Archbishop warns “sexual predators will seek out our weak points and break through the weaknesses of our systems.”