Who Was Your Favourite Papal Nuncio?

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Luciano ‘Unlucky’ Storero (1995-2000)

As Nuncio to Ireland in 1997 Storero signed a 2-page letter (below) that warned the Irish bishops against implementing a policy “that included ‘mandatory reporting’ of suspected abusers to civil authorities.”

Giuseppe ‘Guisseppe’ Lazzarotto (2000-2007)

In September 2006, the Murphy commission wrote to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith seeking information on reports of clerical child sex abuse sent to it by the Dublin archdiocese over a 30-year period. It also sought information on the document Crimen Solicitationis, which deals with clerical sex abuse. The congregation however did not reply. Instead, the CDF contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs that the commission had not gone through appropriate diplomatic channels.

In February 2007, the commission wrote to Archbisop Lazzarotto asking that he forward all documents relevant to it and which had not been or were not produced by the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin. It also requested that he confirm if he had no such documents. The papal nuncio did not reply.

Giuseppe ‘Fredo’ Leanza (2008-present)

After the Muprhy report Archbishop Leanza declined an invitation to address the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee after it was revealed that the papal nuncio had refused to co-operate with its inquiry into clerical abuse in the Dublin diocese. In a letter to committee chairman Michael Woods, Archbishop Leanza said “it is not the practice of the Holy See that apostolic nuncios appear before parliamentary commissions”.

The letter, dated 12 February, said: “As the papal representative I am always available to examine questions of mutual interest in the relations between the Holy See and Ireland through contacts with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as has been the norm hitherto.”

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