Bishops Leave Martin Isolated in Split over Maynooth "Gay Culture"

By Sarah MacDonald, Alan O'Keeffe and Nicola Anderson
Irish Independent
August 3, 2016

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bishops-leave-martin-isolated-in-split-over-maynooth-gay-culture-34934293.html

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. Photo: Frank McGrath

A series of senior bishops have backed the college amid allegations of a "gay culture" in St Patrick's College. Archbishop Martin has withdrawn his trainee priests from Maynooth due to what he described as allegations of a "homosexual, gay culture, that students are using an app called Grindr, a gay dating app".

Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archdiocese of Armagh: A spokesman said “The Archdiocese of Armagh shall continue to support its current seminarians in Maynooth and Rome on their journey of discernment.”

However, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland will continue to send trainee priests to Maynooth. A spokesman for Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin, the Primate of All Ireland, told the Irish Independent the Archdiocese was "extremely grateful to St Patrick's College, Maynooth, for the spiritual, human, pastoral and academic formation that he received there".

Archbishop of Cashel and Emly Kieran O'Reilly also says he will send seminarians to Maynooth.

Archbishop Kieran O'Reilly, Cashel and Emly: “The Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly will continue to send seminarians to St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, to pursue studies for the priesthood.”