IRELAND
Irish Independent

By Andrew Madden

Monday June 18 2012

IT was simply more of the same. When the Pope addressed the grand finale of the Eucharistic Congress, his failure to deviate from the church’s inexorable message on child sex abuse can hardly have come as a surprise to anyone.

What has been in train since the publication of the Murphy Report in 2009 — this carefully orchestrated avoidance of accountability — was simply continued last night.

The Eucharistic Congress, from the off, has been about moving the church past the scandal, not moving it any nearer the truth.

This all goes back to the publication of the Murphy Report when we should have seen two levels of response.