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Outgoing bishop of Kildare Jim Moriarty will join the delegation of bishops who will travel to Rome to meet with Pope Benedict about the clerical abuse crisis. Photo: Thomas Nolan

Quitting bishop to meet Pope in Rome over abuse scandal

Wednesday February 10 2010

THE outgoing Catholic Bishop of Kildare will be among a delegation of 24 diocesan bishops attending next week's summit talks at the Vatican with Pope Benedict on the child clerical abuse crisis.

DIFFICULT MATTERS: Cardinal Desmond Connell. Photo: Ronan Lang

Pope must answer people without any reservations

Sunday January 24 2010

THIS is a crucial moment for the Irish hierarchy and Pope Benedict. They must not meet in Rome next month without lay involvement, including representative survivors of abuse.

Bishop Drennan, it's time to fall on your crozier and quit

Tuesday December 29 2009

AT a Mass in Dublin's St Michan's Church marking the opening of the law term, in October 2000, a Catholic bishop ascended the high moral ground in his sermon to the legal and judicial luminaries when he lambasted the British media tactic of "naming and shaming" convicted offenders.

Victims put pressure on Drennan

Monday December 28 2009

TWO of Ireland's more prominent abuse victims last night called for the resignation of the last remaining bishop identified in the Murphy report.

Stay or go: the bishops who face the axe

Saturday December 19 2009

  • Bishop Martin Drennan

Bishops that failed to act

Sunday December 06 2009

Of the18 archbishops and bishops named in the Murphy report, 11 are still alive. Some are retired while others still hold important positions of influence in the Catholic hierarchy. Not all are singled out for criticism. But the report found that many auxiliary bishops knew of the fact of abuse and some showed a "disturbing failure to accept responsibility" when they gave evidence to the commission. This is what the report says about the surviving prelates.

Go now, bishop, before Vatican sends you a P45

Tuesday December 01 2009

MOST certainly Donal Murray should resign as Bishop of Limerick and respect the state judicial finding of the Murphy commission that his mishandling of complaints against the notorious paedophile cleric Thomas Naughton was "inexcusable".

Day of sorrow and shame as facts sink in for faithful

Monday November 30 2009

IT was a day for reflection, prayer and apologies.

Bishop fights mounting calls to quit over scandal

Monday November 30 2009

THE Bishop of Limerick was under mounting pressure last night to resign over his handling of child sexual abuse complaints while he worked in Dublin.

Connell must come clean without any 'reservation'

Monday November 30 2009

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Desmond Connell have been in direct personal contact since last Thursday when the explosive Commission Report into the Archdiocese of Dublin's cover-ups of clerical child sex abuse ignited the biggest challenge ever to the moral authority and credibility of both the Vatican and the Irish hierarchy.

'It's hard to know if Church can survive'

Sunday November 29 2009

There's a point that was made by Dermot Ahern when he was launching the report, in a paragraph which I'm not actually sure he delivered but it's in his script, "that the report isn't about the abuse that was perpetrated but it's about the cover-ups".