Well in the midst of all the fatuous coverage of the Pope's Letter, bemoaning his failure to do this or say that, the odd journalist has actually read the letter and realised that it is a damning indictment of the Irish episcopal conference - from a red tops point of view it's all a bit too subtle but from a red hat point of view it couldn't be blunter. The bishops' leadership, in a range of areas which contributed to this fiasco, has been deplorable, in education, in vocations, in seminarie...
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