IRELAND
Derry Journal
Tuesday 6th December 2005
A priest, who controversially spoke out about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals in the US, addressed a Derry audience on Sunday evening in the city's Tower Hotel.
Fr. Tom Doyle spoke about the recurring sex scandals that have rocked the Church in recent years, and claimed that Derry parishioners shouldn't have to pay for the sins of their priests through the controversial Stewardship Fund.
He believes that responsibility for the abuse scandal went right to the core of the Catholic Church.
Fr. Doyle said Ireland's Stewardship Fund was "something that the bishops should be responsible for, not these good people here" and that many people believe it should be the bishops who pay the levy, not the parishioners, because they had not handled the situation correctly.
Posted by kshaw at December 6, 2005 07:35 AM