Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh gestures during a working group at the Synod of Bishops on young people. Photo: CNS Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin has expressed the hope that his counterpart in Dublin Diarmuid Martin could give input to a key Rome meeting on abuse next year.
Speaking to Crux at the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Eamon said that the Dublin archbishop “has a knowledge and understanding of this issue which I think is second to none.
“I think that his presence at the meeting in February would be hugely positive, as well as others, no doubt, who are not presidents of their episcopal conference but who have gained an awful lot of experience and know how to deal with this issue. I think we really need to hear from them as experts in this field,” he said.
Pope Francis has summoned the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome for the meeting in February in a bid to co-ordinate greater accountability on the issue of the handling of abuse allegations.