Topic: Ireland

• ‘Ireland Stand Up’ is leading a powerful grassroots campaign to reverse the closure of Ireland’s embassy to the Holy See: the politicians will now retreat

  Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Eamon Gilmore, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Ireland Stand Up, Irish Church, Irish Embassy, Pope Benedict XVI

  And Benedict XVI will once more weave his magic at a great papal Mass

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• Pope ‘may still visit Ireland next year’ despite diplomatic tensions

  Posted on 25 November 2011. Tags: 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Ireland, Irish Church, Pope Benedict XVI

  Delegate of Eucharistic Congress says there are contingency plans in case Benedict XVI does visit

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• Ireland to close embassy to Holy See

  Posted on 04 November 2011. Tags: Cardinal Seán Brady, clerical abuse crisis, Eamon Gilmore, Ireland, Irish Church

  Ireland’s foreign minister says closure is for economic reasons and is not related to the Cloyne report row

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• Sorry, Mr Weigel: the Irish Church has problems, but to call Ireland the ‘epicentre of European anti-Catholicism’ is simply wrong

  Posted on 04 August 2011. Tags: clerical abuse crisis, George Weigel, Ireland, Irish Church

  There’s an obvious distinction between the governance of the Church and the essence of the faith

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• Another Irish nightmare: at Maynooth, they’re campaigning for abortion. But calm down; these days, there’s Maynooth and Maynooth

  Posted on 01 August 2011. Tags: abortion, clerical abuse crisis, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Irish Church, Mary Kenny, Maynooth

  All the same, the story is all too symbolic of Irish life today

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• Debate: Is there any hope for Catholic Ireland?

  Posted on 29 July 2011. Tags: 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Apostolic Visitation to Ireland, clerical abuse crisis, Ireland, Irish Church, Pope Benedict XVI

  Can removing bishops, redrawing dioceses and a papal visit next year lead the Irish Church towards renewal?

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• Vatican recalls nuncio to Ireland

  Posted on 25 July 2011. Tags: Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, clerical abuse crisis, Diocese of Cloyne, Enda Kenny, Fr Federico Lombardi, Ireland, Irish Church

  Nuncio has been recalled so the Vatican can better respond to Cloyne scandal, says Vatican spokesman

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• The Taoiseach has just got it wrong. The Pope isn’t the problem: he is a major part of the solution

  Posted on 22 July 2011. Tags: clerical abuse crisis, Cloyne Report, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Irish Church, Pope Benedict XVI

  Both at the CDF and as Pope he has clearly directed that crimes must be reported to the civil authorities

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• Enda Kenny’s attack on the Vatican reflects ferocious public anger

  Posted on 21 July 2011. Tags: clerical abuse crisis, Enda Kenny, Fr Federico Lombardi, Ireland, Irish Church, Vatican

  Fr Lombardi’s response to the Cloyne scandal is legalistic: the Vatican still has serious questions to answer

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• Irish prime minister accuses Vatican of ‘narcissism’

  Posted on 20 July 2011. Tags: Bishop John Magee, clerical abuse crisis, Cloyne Report, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Irish Church

  Enda Kenny launches extraordinary attack on the Vatican in parliament, saying its policy on abuse is ‘calculated’ and ‘withering’

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