IRELAND/UNITED STATES
Irish Central
By
MOLLY MULDOON,
Irish Voice Reporter
Published Thursday, May 3, 2012
Catholic priests in Ireland face a huge task in re-establishing Irish society’s trust as a result of the child abuse scandal and will require strong leadership, according to an Irish American deacon currently studying in Ireland.
The son of an Irish emigrant, Shane Sullivan, 26, was ordained a deacon on Sunday, January 29 in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. A Minnesota native, he is to be ordained into the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Tuam on Sunday, June 3, in Tuam Cathedral, Co. Galway.
The January ceremony marked the last phase in the formation of Sullivan as a seminarian before his ordination into the priesthood in June.
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