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An Archbishop Burns While Rome Fiddles
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: June 14th, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/opinion/05dowd.html
[When Diarmuid Martin], the archbishop of Dublin, ... was sent home to Dublin in 2003 after 27 years in the Vatican bureaucracy and diplomatic corps, [he] found the Irish church in crisis, reeling from a cover-up [sexual abuse of minors] that spanned the tenures of four past Dublin archbishops. In February, Martin held an unprecedented Liturgy of Lament and Repentance at a Dublin cathedral, where he asked forgiveness from God and victims of abuse and praised the courage of those who had come forward. In return for doing the right thing, he has been ostracized by fellow bishops in Ireland and snubbed by the Holy See. Martin is standing alone against the tide right now, but hes on the right side of history, said Jason Berry, who has written two books on the church scandal. I think he is probably the single best hope for the church within the hierarchy. Yet Martin, famous protector of victims, is an outlier of the club, while Cardinal Bernard Law, notorious protector of pedophiles, has a cushy Vatican sanctuary. And Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who was in league with the notorious abuser of seminarians and inseminator of women, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, is the dean of the College of Cardinals in Rome.
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