The Catholic Church has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion to ver­i­fy the truth of al­le­ga­tions of abuse at Chil­dren's homes. In a press re­lease is­sued to­day, the church said they take all al­le­ga­tions of this na­ture se­ri­ous­ly and gave the as­sur­rance that every step will be tak­en to de­ter­mine the facts and act ap­pro­pri­ate­ly in ac­cor­dance with their pub­lic du­ty. 

The church in­ves­tiga­tive team will in­clude in­de­pen­dent and qual­i­fied ex­per­rts in the field of psy­choil­o­gy, child­care/so­cial work, law and hu­man re­source man­age­ment. They al­so stat­ed that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion will  pro­vide rec­om­men­da­tions for im­prove­ment for the fu­ture.