Tag Archives: Vatican
Get Him
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Cardinal Francis George.
Beautiful lace cuffs.
It has to be said.
Chicago Cardinal Said To Snub Irish Prime Minister’s Visit Over Vatican Embassy Closure (James O’Shea, Irish Central)
Got That?
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“It was the same after the Ferns, Ryan and Murphy reports. Their immediate reaction is practised horror. Then, with time, they’re back to their slithering ways, diluting truth, minimising the wreckage, playing it all down.”
Gulp.
“During its later investigations into Cloyne diocese it also wrote to the nuncio. This time he responded to say he was “unable to assist”. That was how the Holy See treated two inquiries set up by our government to investigate the gravest of abuses of thousands of Irish children by priests. It ignored them.
This had nothing to do with Catholicism but centrally involved inter-state relations. Because of it, and whatever may happen in the future, the decision to close the Irish embassy to the Holy See was appropriate and proportionate, regardless of the costs argument.”
Jay.
Sus.
Lack of Vatican Co-operation Over Child Sex Abuse Led To Closure Of Embassy (Patsy McGarry, irish Times)
His Excellency Most Reverend Charles John Brown, new Apostolic Nuncio, inspecting the guard of honour and briefly losing his zucchetto at Aras an Uachtarain where he presented his credentials to the President.
Meanwhile, some more awkwardness:
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Ireland Stand Up – the name seeming to conjure up that version of Irish nationalism of yore where Catholicism was an assertion of ‘Irishness’ – cannot be too well staffed. It has a pitiful number of Facebook followers and has been up and running for little more than two months. Yet, they managed to draw 55 TDs and 20 Senators, including no less than Minister for Europe Lucinda Creighton (above with Eamon Gilmore), to a meeting in Buswell’s hotel near Leinster House last week. Creighton offered her support to the group’s agenda, namely that the Irish government ought to (eventually) reverse its callous decision to nix the Irish embassy to the Holy See!
When you hear of valuable advocacy networks for prison reform; or immigrants say, failing to attract even a tenth of these numbers (let alone endorsements) at meetings in Leinster House then something is seriously awry.
Standing up for the Holy See (James Cussen, Politico)
(Photocall Ireland)
Good Grief
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Get Her
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“Wednesday marked the first time that Ireland’s Parliament has lambasted the Vatican, rather than local church leaders, over the past 17 years of pedophile-priest scandals in Ireland. Those revelations have eroded Catholic authority in a nation where the church still owns most schools and several hospitals, and state-run broadcasters still toll a twice-daily call to Catholic prayer.”
* Narcissism, In speech but not used by Kenny.