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'The Pope's letter will not lead most Irish Catholics to return to the sacraments'

John Cooney: Papal letter has fanned flames of worldwide fury

Monday March 22 2010

POPE Benedict has let down victims in his flawed Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland. He has fanned the flames of worldwide fury among church members at his failure to admit and apologise for his own culpability in covering up rapes of children by clergy.

The statue was a staple of the Killarney skyline

Moving statue causes holy row

Saturday March 06 2010

A moving statue has caused a major row. Management has ordered the removal of a statue of Christ that has adorned a town hospital for over 70 years.

Stay or go: the bishops who face the axe

Saturday December 19 2009

  • Bishop Martin Drennan

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.

Under-fire bishop claims he did 'no wrong'

Thursday December 10 2009

DUBLIN auxiliary bishop Eamonn Walsh has hit back angrily at criticisms of him, saying if he did anything wrong by not protecting children from paedophile priests he would have stepped aside by now.

Bishop Murray: Pastor, author and intellectual

Tuesday December 08 2009

DONAL Murray was Cardinal Desmond Connell's protege.

Bishop: 'Cover-up culture has gone'

Friday November 27 2009

The Catholic Church's 'don't ask, don't tell' cover-up culture exposed in a damning clerical abuse report is dead and gone, a senior cleric said.

The fall from grace

Friday November 27 2009

They were anointed as 'princes', the congregation kissed their rings, and resplendent in their robes of purple, they tended to their flock. But far from being the custodians of innocence as Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said last night, they presided over the "theft of childhood".