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| Pope 'visibly upset' by report | Pope 'visibly upset' by report |
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| Pope Benedict was "visibly upset" when he heard details contained in the Ryan report on abuse in State institutions run by religious orders. | Pope Benedict was "visibly upset" when he heard details contained in the Ryan report on abuse in State institutions run by religious orders. |
| This is according to the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, who met the Pope along with Catholic Primate Seán Brady at the Vatican on Friday. | |
| On Monday, the pair met with bishops in Maynooth to discuss the meeting. | |
| Over 2,000 people told the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse they suffered physical and sexual abused. | |
| It happened in a network of reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses up to the 1980s. | It happened in a network of reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses up to the 1980s. |
| Cardinal Brady said the Pope had "listened very carefully, very attentively, very sympathetically to what we had to say and he said in reply that this was a time for deep examination of life here in Ireland in the Church". | Cardinal Brady said the Pope had "listened very carefully, very attentively, very sympathetically to what we had to say and he said in reply that this was a time for deep examination of life here in Ireland in the Church". |
| He said the Pope urged him and Archbishop Martin to establish the truth of what happened and also put in place measures that will prevent such abuses happening again. |