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At the conclusion of its 2009 summer meeting, the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference said that the abuse of children in institutions run by Catholic priests and nuns was part of a culture that was prevalent in the Catholic Church in Ireland. The bishops spent a major portion of their 8–10 June meeting discussing a report from the Commission ...
Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. His resignation in 1992, after it was revealed he had had an affair with an American woman, Annie Murphy, was a significant event in the history of the Irish Catholic Church.
On 18 September 2006 an article in the Irish Independent stated that a four-year Garda (police) inquiry into allegations that the Catholic Church covered up child sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese had failed to produce sufficient evidence to lay charges against any senior church figures. In the interim the government established the ...
The scandal chipped away at the Catholic Church's authority and, as one former president of Ireland put it, signaled the "beginning of the end" of deferential trust in the church.
His thesis examined whether the Catholic Church in contemporary Ireland was a church in crisis or one in question. [6] Dempsey was appointed to the parish cluster of Naas, Sallins and Two Mile House in 2009, before moving to Newbridge in August 2014, when he was also appointed vicar forane for the North deanery.
This category includes Irish pre-Reformation, Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops. Pages in category "Lists of Irish bishops and archbishops" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
John Magee SPS (born 24 September 1936) is a Roman Catholic bishop emeritus in Ireland. [1] He was Bishop of Cloyne from 1987 to 2010; following scandal he resigned from that position on 24 March 2010, becoming a bishop emeritus. Magee is the only person to have been private secretary to three popes. [2]
Budde is not a Catholic bishop. She is a member of the Protestant Episcopalian community and is the community’s leader in Washington D.C., according to her page on the Washington National ...