IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sunday February 12 2012
In his visceral denunciation of the Vatican in the aftermath of the Cloyne Report last year, Enda Kenny referred to the Holy See as riddled with what he said was “dysfunction, disconnection and elitism”.
The Taoiseach’s polemic served to release an anger, formed over generations, which had until then only seeped out in an unsatisfactory manner since officialdom began a difficult process to catalogue, investigate and prove the whispered horror of child sex abuse within the Church.
The release was necessary. It will not be the end of it. Nor should it be. There is more detail to be known, more lessons to be learned and more forgiveness to be sought — which needs to be given.
In that context, it seemed to matter little that Mr Kenny’s powerful and deeply personal statement in the Dail, to the nation and to the world, erred a little in fact, what we might call his failure to have due regard to the niceties of diplomacy. But err he did.
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