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Annie Murphy holds up her son's birth certificate following a news conference in New York in 1992, the year she revealed her son had been fathered by Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey. At right is her ...
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.
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Irish bishop David O’Connell in Los Angeles County in California. Carlos Medina, aged 65, is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper ...
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.
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Programs such as CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's 20/20 produced segments on the subject for an Irish-American audience. [23] A documentary film series titled States of Fear which detailed abuse suffered by Irish children between the 1930s and 1970s in the state childcare system, primarily in the Reformatory and Industrial Schools, was released in 1999.
He was the first bishop to be ordiained in Ireland since the election of Pope Francis the previous March, and in the diocese since Jeremiah Newman in 1974. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Leahy is also President of Veritas and was appointed chair of the section on interfaith dialogue of the Commission of Evangelisation and Culture of the Council of European ...
Bishop Seán Patrick O'Malley was appointed archbishop of Boston in 2003, having already dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the Dioceses of Palm Beach and Fall River. In June 2004, the archdiocese sold a large parcel of land near its headquarters to Boston College , in part to raise money for legal costs associated with the scandal.