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Defiant bishop focuses on protecting children

Friday January 15 2010

THE defiant Bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan, has summoned an emergency meeting of his clergy next week to undertake a comprehensive review of child protection procedures in the diocese.

Pope wanted to visit Armagh as part of tour

Wednesday December 30 2009

CONFUSION reigned in official and Catholic Church circles during the summer of 1979 as to whether Pope John Paul II would visit Armagh during his Irish tour in September -- and if not, why not.

Pope will consider documents as Murray awaits fate

Monday December 14 2009

POPE Benedict XVI will study a crucial report on the future of the embattled Bishop of Limerick, as pressure continues to mount on five Irish bishops to resign.

John Cooney: Old-style, secretive Church must be given the last rites

Monday December 14 2009

The slogan of 'A peasant Church for a peasant people' was created by the moulder of the highly centralised and secretive clericalist Catholic Church in Ireland, which is crumbling in the wake of the paedophile priest scandals.

The case against Bishop Murray shows he failed to monitor abusers

Tuesday December 01 2009

HIS failure to investigate one particular cleric was described by Judge Yvonne Murphy as "inexcusable".

Worrying links existed between serial abusers

Sunday November 29 2009

WHEN Archbishop Diarmuid Martin reached into the vaults of the Dublin Archdiocese to review the files on the hundreds of children abused by its priests, he was worried enough by the connections between paedophile priests that he asked gardai to investigate the possibility that a paedophile ring existed in the Church. There was no direct evidence to convince Judge Yvonne Murphy's inquiry when it reported last week. But there were enough worrying connections between some of the 46 priests investigated.

'I feel physically ill at the behaviour of my clerical colleagues'

Sunday November 29 2009

I must have read about a dozen reports from all over the world, from Boston right through to the Ryan report, the Ferns report, the Dublin report and reports from Australia, and they seem just the same.

'My abuser then went on to molest at least seven others'

Saturday November 28 2009

I was a little emotional on 'Prime Time' on Thursday night. No one was more surprised than I was; I'm more used to being composed and articulate.

They knew so much but said so little

Saturday November 28 2009

A NUMBER of auxiliary bishops in the Dublin Archdiocese were made aware of complaints of child sexual abuse by priests.