IRELAND
The Irish Times
ANALYSIS: The report amounted to a fleshing out of the pope’s analysis in his letter to the Irish faithful, writes PATSY McGARRY
A PARTICULARLY informed Catholic has described the Summary of the Findings of the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland, published yesterday, as “a damp squid”.
He said so by text yesterday afternoon. In so far as all squids are the same, being damp, the man’s point was all the more accurate even if what he said was a malapropism.
There was an undoubted sense of sameness, and accompanying disappointment, at the content of the 7½ page summary of reports on the Irish church prepared for the Vatican by some of its heavy hitters in last year’s visitation.
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