IRELAND
The Irish Catholic
I sometimes worry a little about Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Is he taking his worries too much to heart?
(In the Church of the Middle Ages, older women used to go around giving advice to ecclesiastics, including the Pope, so if I may, I will exercise that traditional prerogative.)
He said last Sunday that the Catholic Church in Ireland is ”at breaking point”. He emphasised that this was, in great part, due to the clerical scandals, and he went on to stress that they are not over, and indeed, he opined that the story will never be over in our lifetimes.
I know how seriously he took the evidence of these clerical scandals.
I know how ”sickened” he was to read some of the reports that were put before him. Meeting the victims was an extremely upsetting experience for him.
And we all perfectly understand why he seems sometimes on the brink of despair.
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