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Fr Vincent Twomey, a retired professor of moral theology, was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's 'Sunday Sequence' programme. He acknowledged that priests, brothers and nuns in authority had known about "the reign of terror" in their institutions.

Frustrated
He said many came from large and extremely poor families and their parents pressurised them to enter congregations because of the social status and lifelong security they offered.
Many did not have real vocations, and were frustrated sexually because celibacy was not their choice, Fr Twomey added.

Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor has called for the Church to appoint a panel of experts to find out why the abuse occurred.
''We simply have to see this evil and the crimes that were precipitated straight in the face and that means we have to examine why they happened.
''To do that will require an interdisciplinary discussion with people who are members of the Church, involving victims, who were abused and even going beyond our borders of our Church so that we have the best anthropological and scientific analysis available to understand why this happened.''

His call is echoed by influential theologian, Fr Vincent Twomey, a close associate of Pope Benedict XVI, who told The Irish Catholic that such an inquiry was ''necessary to establish how this was allowed to happen and to examine the situation of religious life and the Church in Ireland as it stands now, not just historically.
''This will allow us to attempt to ensure, as far as is humanly possible, that the mistakes of the past are not repeated,'' he said.
''How is it that the conscience of these religious was never touched by their daily religious rituals? How is it that they never engaged in any self-criticism?

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Meanwhile, Sr Marianne O'Connor, the director general of the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI), and Brother Kevin Mullan of the Christian Brothers, have agreed to accept a Petition of Solidarity from the public and abuse survivors at a march from the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin to the Dail on Wednesday, organised by Survivors of Institutional Abuse Ireland.

The petition reads:

"We, the people of Ireland, join in solidarity and call for justice, accountability, restitution and repatriation for the unimaginable crimes committed against the children of our country by religious orders in 216 institutions."