IRELAND
Journal
THE ARCHBISHOP OF Dublin has called for a new community-based system for training priests.
Diarmuid Martin was speaking to RTÉ’s This Week programme today after a week of media activity around alleged gay culture in place at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Ireland’s national seminary.
Anonymous allegations had been made that seminarians had been using Grindr, a gay dating app.
Martin had on Tuesday confirmed to the Irish Times that he would not be sending three student priests from his diocese to the seminary, describing “an atmosphere of strange goings-on”.
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