IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sarah MacDonald
PUBLISHED
25/08/2016
The Catholic Church hierarchy has admitted concerns about an “unhealthy atmosphere” at the country’s main seminary amid claims trainee priests there are using the gay dating app Grindr.
Church leaders have ordered a review on the “appropriate use of the internet and social media” at the centuries-old St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Co Kildare, as well as an overhaul of its approach to whistleblowers.
The college trustees – four archbishops and 13 senior bishops – met for crisis talks after the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin confirmed he was boycotting the seminary.
As 14 new seminarians began their six years of training for the priesthood at St Patrick’s College this week, Maynooth’s trustees issued a range of directives aimed at rebuilding the seminary’s tarnished image.
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