Pope Benedict XVI expressed solidarity with victims abused by clergy in Ireland in a meeting with the country's top churchmen Friday, following a report detailing decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at church-run reform schools, the Vatican said.
Benedict held a long meeting with Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh and Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who briefed the pope on the report, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
Lombardi gave no details of the talks but said Benedict expressed his "closeness" to the victims and assured his prayers for the church in Ireland.
The Irish government-funded independent report last …
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