Darryl Smith represented New Zealand at an international meeting of survivors held by Ending Clergy Abuse Global last month.
He first travelled to Rome in 2019, and returned this year to table copies of New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Care report at the meeting, and hand-deliver some to the Vatican.
But once again, his plea fell on deaf ears.
While he did not have an appointment, he explained to staff through an intercom at the Vatican that he was a survivor who had travelled from New Zealand to deliver a report from a royal commission.
The staff turned the intercom off, he said.
He believed they did not want to talk to him because he was "a threat", Mr Smith said.
"They’re scumbags."
He had contacted the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of St John of God, the clergy responsible for his abuse, prior to his arrival in Rome but had been ignored, he said.
He also intended to meet two church provincials, Brs Joseph Smith and Brian O’Donnell, who had been at the head of the order when he was abused.
He met neither, as he was refused entry to the Vatican.
He had hoped the fact he was a sexual abuse survivor, who had been to Rome twice, would have been enough to warrant a meeting.
The continued dismissal was depressing and traumatising, but he would keep pushing forward and seeking closure, he said.
