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Reaction and over-reaction

Posted by Christopher Mc on Sunday, April 4, 2010, In : Affairs

Is it just me or did the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, over-react a little to comments made by the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury?

Dr Rowan Williams, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, to be broadcast on Monday, said: "I was speaking to an Irish friend recently who was saying that it’s quite difficult in some parts of Ireland to go down the street wearing a clerical collar now.

"An institution so deeply bound into the life of a society suddenly becoming, suddenly los...

I'm, spinning around

Posted by Christopher Mc on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, In : Church

Well, it's like a Kylie Minogue theme party in Irish ecclesiastical these days as every bishop does his best to spin the Pope's Letter in the best possible taste.

As people know, I'm fond of a good analogy and I did enjoy Bishop Donal McKeown's attempts to liken Cardinal Brady to a recovering alcoholic. I'm sure the Cardinal appreciates the words of support:

“Obfuscation, making excuses, blaming the system, saying we were there but we weren’t really part of it is no way forward," he said. ...
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"We're full of old tosh this week so we'll have to decline yours"

Posted by Christopher Mc on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Affairs

Something unusual happened to me today. This morning I submitted a letter for publication to The Irish Catholic. I have previously had letters published there on a number of topics. So this morning I emailed the following letter:

Since 2007 bishops, priests and lay people around the world have been resigning from Amnesty International in protest at its decision to begin supporting legal access to abortion as a human right.

Renato Cardinal Martino, then President of the Pontifical Council...

Elephant's don't forget and neither will religious orders

Posted by Christopher Mc on Sunday, June 28, 2009, In : Church

I think the game is up for Archbishop Martin's attempts to turn the religious orders into a bad church for toxic abuse. It only works if people don't realise it is happening. But this morning on Joe Duffy's TV programme on RTE1 the cat came out of the bag. Joe began with a bland "the bishops have come out of this controversy well", his tongue firmly in his cheek. Fr Tony Flannery paused but a moment before laying in to their attempts at scape-goating religious orders. I thought he would ...
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Of all the gin joints...

Posted by Christopher Mc on Monday, June 1, 2009, In : Church

One of the reasons we respect Diarmuid Martin so much is that he is a tremendous strategarius - like a stradivarius but with a lot more strings and instead of a sound board it's more of a bored sound.

His strategy for dealing with the child abuse scandal has been masterful. He has learned well from the secular sphere he moves in. While the State has been setting up the National Assets Management Agency to transfer toxic debts into one bad bank, Martin has been setting up CORI as the "Bad Chu...
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