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  Papal Nunscience: Calls to Expel the Vatican Ambassador Miss the Point

Forth
December 2, 2009

http://forth.ie/index.php/content/article/papal_nunscience_calls_to_expel_the_vatican_ambassador_miss_the_point/20091202/#axzz0YXJ1eQeo

Jason Walsh says public outrage at the Catholic Church is understandable but the Holy See isn't the state at fault – Ireland is

Demands to boot Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, the Papal nuncio, out of the country are growing louder and more vociferous by the day. Protests, both real and virtual in the form of a Facebook a group, have forced Dr. Leanza to respond to criticism that the Vatican has washed its hands of the matter and taken no interest in seeing clerical abusers tried.

The affair started when the Murphy Report into Catholic sexual abuse in Ireland revealed that both Dr. Leanza, who was appointed in 2008, and his predecessor Archbishop Giueeppe Lanzzarotto had failed to respond to two separate requests for information from the commission. Outraged parents, mostly drawn from Ireland's rapidly growing ranks of lapsed and ex-Catholics, see this as evidence that the Vatican is at the very least complicit in the abuse of children.

 
 

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