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She fell in love with the bishop nearly immediately after arriving in Ireland in 1973. Casey, 21 years her senior at age 46, was equally smitten with the young woman he had welcomed into his home.
The accepted norm in the Irish Church was that its priesthood was celibate and chaste, and homosexuality was both a sin and a crime. [8] The Church forbade its members (the "faithful") to use artificial contraception, campaigned strongly against laws allowing abortion and divorce, and publicly disapproved of unmarried cohabiting couples and illegitimacy.
He also promised to reform Ireland's social services for children in line with the recommendations of the commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report. [24] Further motions to start criminal investigation against members of Roman Catholic religious orders in Ireland were made by Irish President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Cowen. [25]
John Ireland (baptized September 11, 1838 – September 25, 1918) was an American prelate who was the third Catholic bishop and first archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1888–1918). He became both a religious as well as civic leader in Saint Paul during the turn of the 20th century.
He was elected Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin on 20 October 1897 and consecrated in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on 30 November 1897. [citation needed] He translated to the Diocese of Down, Connor and Dromore in 1907, and on 2 February 1911 was elected, unanimously by the house of bishops, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
Michael Cleary (23 November 1933 – 31 December 1993) [1] was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, who also became a radio and TV personality. [2] Described in some sources as a "powerful and charismatic figure" in the Catholic Church in Ireland, [2] he presented a late-night radio phone-in show in Dublin in the 1980s and hosted his own television chat show.
Some historians consider Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin from 1852, and Ireland's first cardinal, from 1866, to have been the most powerful political figure in Ireland between Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell. [5] A successor, John Charles McQuaid, exerted even more power over Irish affairs.
The Sunday Independent is an Irish Sunday newspaper broadsheet published by Independent News & Media plc, a subsidiary of Mediahuis. It is the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent, and maintains an editorial position midway between magazine and tabloid.