IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Eimear Ni Bhraonain
Saturday March 10 2012
THE new papal nuncio will face a “growing sense of disillusionment” with the Catholic Church when he visits a diocese for the first time today, because no new bishop has been appointed there.
Archbishop Charles Brown makes his first formal visit to the Kildare and Leighlin diocese this morning, where a diocesan eucharistic congress is taking place in Carlow town.
His visit comes after a number of priests have privately criticised church leaders for not appointing a successor to Bishop Jim Moriarty, who resigned in the wake of damning revelations of the church’s handling of child-abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese.
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