IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – 21 SEPTEMBER 2013
ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has said the spate of censures of five Irish priests by the Vatican should have been dealt with by the Irish church instead of Rome.
He was speaking on RTE Radio about the publication of an in-depth interview with Pope Francis by the Italian Jesuit journal ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’, in which the Pontiff criticised the excessive number of denunciations sent to Rome about priests and theologians complaining of their lack of orthodoxy.
In the interview, the Pope said these conflicts over orthodoxy should be handled by local bishops’ conferences rather than the Curia.
Responding, Dr Martin said he hoped that the problems and the tensions within the Irish church would be eased “so that we get away from a climate of bickering into one in which we all work together.”
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