IRELAND
Irish Independent
Tomás Heneghan
PUBLISHED
07/08/2016
The Archbishop of Dublin has said his long-term ambition following the recent scandal at Maynooth is to set up a new form of community training for seminarians.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said he wishes to take men training to become priests in Ireland away from the closed environment of a seminary.
The cleric was speaking to RTÉ Radio One’s This Week programme on Sunday afternoon.
He told the show he made his decision to remove three seminarians from St Patrick’s College at Maynooth in June, following various reports and blogs.
He explained: “I have an obligation, if I feel there is an atmosphere that is unsettling for my students I have to take action.”
He said that despite the decision of other bishops not to remove their seminarians from the college, he did not believe he was overreacting.
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