Huge Facebook Campaign Mounted to Expel Papal Nuncio in Wake of Cloyne Report, by Cathal Dervan, Irish Central, July 17, 2011

Huge Facebook Campaign Mounted to Expel Papal Nuncio in Wake of Cloyne Report

By Cathal Dervan
Irish Central
July 17, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Huge-Facebook-campaign-mounted-to-expel-Papal-Nuncio-in-wake-of-Cloyne-report-125710313.html

Fr General with His Excellency Most Reverend Dr Giuseppe Leanza, Papal Nuncio to Ireland

A Facebook campaign to expel the Pope's representative out of Ireland in the wake of the Cloyne report is already a huge success.

Over 5,000 people have joined the online call for the Irish government to take serious action against the Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza.

Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan called on the government to take such action in the immediate aftermath of the publication of the report into child abuse in the Cork diocese of Cloyne.

"The Vatican has broken the law in Ireland. If any other country conspired with Irish citizens to break the law here, their ambassador would be expelled," said deputy Flanagan.

"The same standards should be applied to the Papal Nuncio who is the Vatican's ambassador to Ireland. He should be expelled."