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Victims ask Pope for €1bn

Tuesday February 09 2010

A LETTER calling on the Vatican to provide a €1bn compensation package for survivors of clerical child abuse in Ireland is to be hand delivered to Pope Benedict by Cardinal Sean Brady, when the Irish bishops hold summit talks with the Pontiff.

Reform Church or lose authority

Monday February 08 2010

ONE week from now, the Irish Catholic bishops will travel to Rome to discuss with Pope Benedict XVI the disclosures of clerical sex abuse which culminated in the Murphy report on the archdiocese of Dublin, and which, along with the shocking evidence of mishandling and cover-ups, have shaken the church in Ireland to its roots.

Bishops meet victims ahead of 'mini-synod'

Monday February 08 2010

SENIOR Catholic clergy are to meet survivors of clerical abuse today ahead of their visit to Rome to discuss the fallout of the institutional child abuse scandal with the Pope.

Defiant Martin shrugs off his critics in clergy

Monday February 08 2010

A DEFIANT Archbishop of Dublin has shrugged off mounting criticism from priests of him being "a divisive" figure for fully accepting the Murphy report's damning findings of cover-ups of paedophile priests.

Artist puts comic Tiernan in frame for Jewish jokes

Tuesday February 02 2010

An artist has turned the tables on controversial comedian Tommy Tiernan, who sparked outrage after making allegedly anti-semitic jokes during a festival performance.

Priest attacks prelate for accepting abuse report

Tuesday February 02 2010

AN influential retired priest has launched a scathing attack on the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, for accepting the shocking findings of clerical child sex abuse in the Murphy report.

John Cooney: Scandals, splits and a battle for the Pope's ear

Tuesday February 02 2010

THE famous Latin saying, 'Roma locuta est, causa finita est' -- 'Rome has spoken, the case is closed' -- will not apply in Pope Benedict's promised Lenten Pastoral to the Catholics of Ireland on clerical child sex abuse and the cover-ups of paedophile priests by church authorities.

Church will fight hard to preserve its 'divine right'

Sunday January 31 2010

Nearly one-third of people in this country think the Catholic Church should maintain control of the primary school system. And more than half the population thinks that, whether it maintains control or not, the Catholic Church will change to prevent child abuse at the hands of clerics happening again. That means there is an unsettlingly high number of people in this country, despite all the scandal, the trauma, the pain and the shame, in the schools and outside them, who do not believe the Church will change but are still perfectly happy for it to go on its dictatorial way, unchecked by the civil authorities, and having total control of the welfare and moral formation of the nation's children.

Seventy Irish priests working in US accused of sexual abuse

Friday January 29 2010

AMERICAN victims of clerical child abuse have revealed a direct link to scandals in Ireland, with the discovery that 70 Irish-born priests who worked in the US have been accused of paedophile crimes.

Help is next door should Herr Mueller request it

Friday January 29 2010

AER Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller has found a new home since moving from Brussels to Dublin late last year.