(AP) DUBLIN - From the pews and pulpits, Ireland's Catholics are demanding that the Vatican finally come clean on its oversight role in child abuse cover-ups.
It's a revolution of sorts in Ireland, a nation founded on a pillar of devotion to Roman Catholicism, where many now question the church's role in a rapidly changing society. For decades Irish leaders let archbishops vet proposed laws, declared they were Catholics first and Irishmen second, and saw crossing the church as a surefire way to lose office.
No longer.
The Irish are broadly lauding this week's thunderbolt from Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who denounced the Vatican's role in the past 17 years of abuse scandals. He accused the Holy See of downplaying "the rape and torture of children" and hiding behind its status as a sovereign state with its own secrecy-obsessed canon laws…
"It's a landmark speech in emphasizing that Ireland's historic deference to the Vatican, and to the Catholic Church generally, is over," said Diarmaid Ferriter, professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin.
Even Ireland's priests, dismayed by their church leadership, voiced support for Kenny's attack on the Vatican.
"The prime minister is a practicing Catholic and has a love for the Christian faith. He's given a powerful voice to what we've all been thinking," said the Rev. Tony Flannery, a leader of the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland…
Even Ireland's priests, dismayed by their church leadership, voiced support for Kenny's attack on the Vatican.
"The prime minister is a practicing Catholic and has a love for the Christian faith. He's given a powerful voice to what we've all been thinking," said the Rev. Tony Flannery, a leader of the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland…
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Vatican recalls ambassador to Ireland over child abuse report - 72511
Vatican recalls ambassador to Ireland over child abuse report - 72511
The Vatican was forced to recall its ambassador to Ireland on Monday after it was challenged to explain its role in covering up sex offences by priests as recently as 2005.
Enda Kenny, the prime minister, last week issued forthright and personal criticism of Pope Benedict XVI following publication of the Cloyne report into cases of abuse in one Roman Catholic diocese.
Dublin has pressed the Vatican for a swift response to charges that its bishops suppressed or took no interest in reports of sexual abuse. The report, Mr Kenny said "excavates the dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominates the Vatican today".
Having initially called for an "objective" debate on the report, the Vatican on Monday moved to address Irish anger by recalling Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, the Papal Nuncio…
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Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican - 72511
The Vatican has recalled the apostolic nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, for consultations after the release of the Cloyne Report and a scathing denunciation from the Prime Minister of Ireland. Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s scathing denunciation of the Vatican was aimed at the continued obfuscation of the Catholic Church in Ireland with regard to sexual abuse by priests…
The Irish Prime Minister’s impassioned rebuke is a welcome breath of fresh air from the stench that has wafted from the Tiber and the seat of Peter. No matter if Pope Benedict XVI has met with the abused; the continued, rampant malfeasance of the church with regard to quickly and decisively adjudicating sex abuse cases continues to erode its already waning moral and social authority. The Cloyne Report shows the depth of abuse, and more shockingly, the willingness of dioceses of Cloyne to completely ignore the norms set out in 2001 by the Holy See on abuse, and to, in the words of the Prime Minister, "frustrate an inquiry by a sovereign democratic republic.”…
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Pope recalls ambassador to Ireland after PM damns Vatican for covering up 'the rape and torture of children' - 72511
The Vatican has recalled its ambassador to Ireland days after an unprecedented attack by the Irish prime minister on the Roman Catholic church over child sex abuse by priests.
The Vatican has recalled its ambassador to Ireland days after an unprecedented attack by the Irish prime minister on the Roman Catholic church over child sex abuse by priests.
The decision plunged relations between the Vatican and Ireland to a new low.
A Vatican spokesman said yesterday that the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, had been summoned back to Rome so he could discuss the church’s response to the Clonyne Report with Pope Benedict XVI and senior officials…
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny made a speech condemning the Holy See in which he said that the 'rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed, to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation.'
He furiously denounced what he called 'the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism - and the narcissism - that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.'…
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