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  Pope Refuses Bishops" Resignation

Press Association
August 11 2010

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hc7d8IwcykGmgF912yLrh6E4oyGw

Two Irish Catholic bishops whose resignations over a child sex abuse report were rejected by the Vatican will still be able to administer confirmation, it has emerged.

Auxiliary bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field will be assigned revised responsibilities in Dublin despite offering to stand down on Christmas Eve in the wake of a damning state inquiry.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has written to priests across the capital informing them Pope Benedict XVI had not accepted the pair's decision to quit.

 
 

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