IRELAND
Irish Times
November 12, 2017
By Patsy McGarry
‘No reconciliation’ with Dublin priests following his response to 2009 Murphy report
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been criticised for what a Dublin parish priest has called his negativity towards the Catholic Church in Ireland.
“It’s quite plain really,” said Fr Gregory O’Brien.
“He publishes statistics about 2 per cent (Sunday) Mass attendance when there are 1,000 people at Mass here and 1.2 million in the whole country. I don’t think it helps the morale of priests or people particularly”.
Fr O’Brien is parish priest at St Jude the Apostle in Willington, south Co Dublin. Archbishop Martin, he said, was “very negative, overly negative.”
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