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Prelate proposed all Irish Catholic bishops resign following abuse reports
Resignation of Chilean bishops ‘a very, very important development’, says Mary McAleese
about 21 hours ago
Patsy McGarry
Mary McAleese: the former president said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/prelate-proposed-all-irish-catholic-bishops-resign-following-abuse-reports-1.3502162
Mary McAleese: the former president said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility”.
Ireland’s Catholic bishops considered resigning en masse following the publication of the Ryan and Murphy reports into child abuse in 2009, former president Mary McAleese has said.
“I do remember, at the time of our own problems with the Ryan and Murphy reports in particular, that there was a suggestion from a very senior cleric in Ireland that the Irish bishops might consider something like that,” she said in Dublin on Saturday. “It didn’t happen. I don’t really know if it was discussed.”
Ms McAleese was speaking in the context of the mass resignation by Chile’s 34 Catholic bishops last Friday after they were summoned to Rome to meet Pope Francis in connection with cover-up of clerical child sexual abuse in that country.
In a similar context, Ireland’s Catholic bishops were summoned to Rome in February 2010 to meet Pope Benedict XVI.
That followed publication in May 2009 of the Ryan report, which investigated abuses of children in orphanages, reformatories and industrial schools, and of the Murphy report in November 2009, which investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese.
Responsibility
Ms McAleese said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility even from those who might not have been directly implicated in the story itself or in the narrative that led to this...”.
She said it was “an interesting development” this “acceptance that maybe the right thing to do is to put your hands up, run up the white flag and say ‘we are all responsible’. We had a bishop who did that here and indeed has gained himself huge respect in so doing.”
This was a reference to former Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Jim Moriarty, who resigned in 2009 following the publication of the Murphy report because he had been “part of the governance of the [Dublin] archdiocese” and “should have challenged the prevailing culture”.
Resignation of Chilean bishops ‘a very, very important development’, says Mary McAleese
about 21 hours ago
Patsy McGarry
Mary McAleese: the former president said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/prelate-proposed-all-irish-catholic-bishops-resign-following-abuse-reports-1.3502162
Mary McAleese: the former president said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility”.
Ireland’s Catholic bishops considered resigning en masse following the publication of the Ryan and Murphy reports into child abuse in 2009, former president Mary McAleese has said.
“I do remember, at the time of our own problems with the Ryan and Murphy reports in particular, that there was a suggestion from a very senior cleric in Ireland that the Irish bishops might consider something like that,” she said in Dublin on Saturday. “It didn’t happen. I don’t really know if it was discussed.”
Ms McAleese was speaking in the context of the mass resignation by Chile’s 34 Catholic bishops last Friday after they were summoned to Rome to meet Pope Francis in connection with cover-up of clerical child sexual abuse in that country.
In a similar context, Ireland’s Catholic bishops were summoned to Rome in February 2010 to meet Pope Benedict XVI.
That followed publication in May 2009 of the Ryan report, which investigated abuses of children in orphanages, reformatories and industrial schools, and of the Murphy report in November 2009, which investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese.
Responsibility
Ms McAleese said the Chilean bishops’ resignation seemed to her “a huge acceptance of responsibility even from those who might not have been directly implicated in the story itself or in the narrative that led to this...”.
She said it was “an interesting development” this “acceptance that maybe the right thing to do is to put your hands up, run up the white flag and say ‘we are all responsible’. We had a bishop who did that here and indeed has gained himself huge respect in so doing.”
This was a reference to former Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Jim Moriarty, who resigned in 2009 following the publication of the Murphy report because he had been “part of the governance of the [Dublin] archdiocese” and “should have challenged the prevailing culture”.