THE Department of Foreign Affairs has not received any notice that the Papal Nuncio will be leaving Ireland, despite confirmation from Czech officials that he is due to move to Prague shortly.

The Vatican's envoy to Ireland is being transferred to Prague.

There are reports that Vatican Radio has said that the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Giuseppe Leanza, has been recalled to the Vatican.

IN THE first sign of a reaction by the Vatican to the Cloyne report, its press officer has claimed the Holy See never instructed Irish bishops to withhold information on abuse cases.

INTERNAL audits into child protection have been completed in six dioceses, it emerged last night, with the Diocese of Raphoe likely to publish its report “in the near future”.

PRESSURE is growing on Bishop John Magee to return home to deal with the fallout from the damning Cloyne report, as the Government demands answers from the Vatican regarding its “inappropriate intervention” in child protection here.

The Pope’s ambassador to Ireland has been ordered to get answers from the Vatican on damning revelations that it allowed priests to ignore the law.

The Vatican’s unhelpful approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

ONE of Ireland’s highest ranking Catholics has denounced the Church for becoming self-centred and arrogant — on the same day as a senior minister denied claims the Government backed away from demanding child abuse information from the Vatican.

THE Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has denied his absence from a press conference by the Irish Hierarchy in Rome earlier this week was linked to any tension with his fellow bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI urged Irish clergy to be courageous in confronting the paedophile priest scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church, but took no action on victims’ demands that he force top bishops to resign, the Vatican said.

ORDAINED singer Sinéad O’Connor believes the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, should be expelled from the country because of what she calls the contempt displayed by the Vatican to the Murphy Commission on clerical child abuse.

The Pope’s Ambassador to Ireland today said the Vatican was ashamed by the devastating findings of a damning inquiry into clerical sex abuse in Dublin.

The Papal Nuncio to Ireland says a response on the findings of the Murphy report on clerical sex abuse can be expected from the Pope.

THE Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray’s expected resignation from his post could be announced today, as attention turns to who will succeed him in the short term.

A FORMER government minister has lambasted the Catholic Church’s attitude to women, as the fallout from the Murphy report continues.

The Papal Nuncio in Ireland is defending his decision not to respond to a draft report from the Commission of investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.

PRESSURE continues to mount on the Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray to resign amid further fallout from the report into child abuse in the Dublin diocese.

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A PRIEST who left the Diocese of Cloyne over its handling of child sex abuse allegations has criticised the decision to allow a close friend of Bishop John Magee to take over as administrator of the diocese.

A PRIEST who once served in the Diocese of Cloyne has written to the Pope’s representative in this country, the papal nuncio, seeking the resignation of the Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee and the diocese’s former head of children protection.

IRELAND’S second largest Catholic diocese got a new bishop yesterday when Monsignor Noel Treanor was ordained as Bishop of Down and Connor at a special ceremony in St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast.

A VATICAN diplomat who has served in some of the most violent situations in the world is the Holy See’s new representative in Ireland.