IRELAND
Christian Today
James Macintyre 04 August 2016
Fourteen of the 26 Catholic diocesan bishops in Ireland have said they will continue to send seminarians to the national seminary, despite the decision by the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin to cease sending trainee priests there.
The move by Martin came because of what he described as “strange goings-on” at Maynooth, in north County Kildare, amid reports of a “gay sub-culture” and claims that some of the 60 resident seminarians were using the gay dating app Grindr.
Martin this week told The Irish Times: “I wasn’t happy with Maynooth…There seems to be an atmosphere of strange goings-on there, it seems like a quarrelsome place with anonymous letters being sent around. I don’t think this is a good place for students”.
Following the archbishop’s comments, The Irish Times emailed bishops asking if they were planning to continue to send their seminarians to Maynooth. Fourteen said they would.
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