Posts Tagged ‘Irish priests’

Dolan’s report ‘incompetent’ say Irish Priests Comments 0

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
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The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland issued a very strongly worded statement calling on Ireland’s archbishops and bishops of the priests concerned, “to publicly repudiate this report in the strongest possible terms and to support the priests involved in seeking to restore their reputations”. The Association says Dolan’s report had “effectively destroyed the reputations Read more

Has the ‘real Ratzinger’ come out to play? Comments 0

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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ROME – When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy in April 2005, the popular forecast called for stormy weather ahead. This was, after all, the Vatican enforcer who had been leading a “smack-down on heresy since 1981”, in the words of T-shirts and coffee mugs marketed by a Ratzinger fan club. His rise elicited Read more