In an apology printed by the Irish Mirror newspaper in 2000 the paper acknowledged that it had misrepresented Archbishop Neary in reporting that Mrs Gallagher was 'banned' by the Catholic Church.
In March 2008 Archbishop Neary said that the centre "does not enjoy the confidence of the diocesan authorities" and "any work carried on since [July 1998] has been entirely of a private nature" and "carries no ecclesiastical approval whatever".