IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Alf McCreary
PUBLISHED
05/08/2016
The leader of the inter-denominational Corrymeela Community, Padraig O Tuama, believes that the current Maynooth situation “could provide an opportunity for mature reflection by the Catholic Church about the whole nature of sexuality”.
His remarks come after the announcement by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, to send his seminarians to the Irish College in Rome because of his concerns about “an atmosphere of strange goings on at Maynooth”.
Dr Martin said: “It seems like a quarrelsome place with anonymous letters being sent around.
“I don’t think that this is a good place for students.”
There have been allegations of bullying and of a “gay subculture” in Maynooth, though this has been strenuously denied by the college.
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