by Brendan Geary

In February 2022 I travelled to Tanzania with Dr Barry O’Sullivan, a priest of Salford Diocese, at the invitation of a religious order of priests, to lead workshops on safeguarding. A local Sister asked if we would also lead a workshop specifically designed for religious women. Barry and I are both aware of ways in which religious sisters can be exploited and abused in the Church, and we readily agreed to this request.1

Brother Brendan Geary is a former Provincial of the Marist Brothers. He is currently a member of the Care and Protection Commission of the Unions of Superiors General, which is based in Rome.