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	Arrogant Vatican Financial Times July 26, 2011 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/938f870c-b7af-11e0-8523-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1TFzLHdE7 No Irish prime minister has ever condemned the Vatican in language as blistering as that used last week by Enda Kenny. No prime minister was ever more justified in doing so. Mr Kenny was commenting on a government report, published on July 13, which concluded that the Vatican had discouraged a thorough investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests in the diocese of Cloyne. As he told parliament, “the rape and torture of children were downplayed” to protect the power and reputation of the Catholic Church. Mr Kenny’s remarks carried weight because he is a practising Catholic, not a secular politician. Now the Vatican, in high dudgeon, has withdrawn the papal nuncio to Ireland. Relations between the Holy See and Dublin have plunged to an all-time low. For a country where, as in Poland and Spain, Catholicism is the historical foundation stone of national identity, this may seem astonishing. But in truth the child abuse scandals long ago shattered the Vatican’s moral authority in Ireland.
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