IRELAND
Irish Central
By
DARA KELLY,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Sunday, June 17, 2012, 9:48 AM
The Association of Catholic Priest has strongly protested against Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s visitation report on the Irish College in Rome.
The report recommended that priests on the staff at the college’s seminary be replaced.
According to the Irish Times, the association called on Ireland’s four Irish archbishops, trustees of the college, and bishops of the priests concerned, “to publicly repudiate this report in the strongest possible terms and to support the priests involved in seeking to restore their reputations.”
They protested “in the strongest possible terms against the methodology and conclusions” of the Cardinal’s report, saying it had “effectively destroyed the reputations of priests, who have given lifelong service to the Irish Catholic Church, without giving them a right of reply to the allegations made against them.”
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