Private meeting with victims

Earlier this evening in Dublin, the Director of the Holy See Press Centre informed journalists that Pope Francis met early Saturday evening for an hour and half with eight Irish survivors of clerical, religious and institutional abuse.

Those present included Mrs. Marie Collins; Rev. Patrick McCafferty, P.P.; Rev. Joe McDonald; Councillor Damian O’Farrell; Paul Jude Redmond; Clodagh Malone; and Bernadette Fahy.

One survivor, a victim of Fr. Tony Walsh, preferred to remain anonymous.