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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".
Men who tried to keep crimes a secret
Friday November 27 2009
FOUR former archbishops of Dublin were heavily criticised for their failure to report child sexual abuse and their determination to keep the crimes secret.
Collusion of Church and State led to huge loss of faith
Friday November 27 2009
A SYSTEMIC, calculated perversion of power and trust inflicted on helpless and innocent children.
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