IRELAND
Irish Independent
Luke Byrne
PUBLISHED
08/08/2016
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin’s long-term ambition for the capital’s trainee priests is to take them out of seminaries altogether and put them into communities.
Speaking over the weekend, the archbishop advocated “a very different form” of training for the priesthood.
It comes as the controversy over his decision not to send prospective priests to Maynooth, over an apparent gay subculture there, rumbles on.
“A seminarian going on a dating site, there’s something wrong there,” he said, in an interview with RTÉ’s ‘This Week’.
Archbishop Martin spoke about the church’s teaching on human sexuality, calling it something that is “more difficult to get across to people.” He suggested that this was one reason why it might be better to take priests out of seminaries.
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