Priests have welcomed the apostolic visitation’s acknowledgement that further work needs to be completed by the Catholic Church here to ensure that clerics on leave following abuse allegations are all being treated the same across the dioceses.

THE Vatican is planning “something dramatic” for the Irish Church in the coming months which could see the number of dioceses significantly reduced and most of our current bishops replaced, it has been claimed.

A CORK parish will join with millions of Catholics worldwide to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Pope’s ordination with a week of prayers, concluding with a Latin Mass.

DESPITE a few early showers the weather played its part beautifully for the celebrity wedding of the year.

A LEADING theologian who called for all bishops named in the Murphy report to resign has backtracked, insisting the Bishop of Galway should not be forced from his post.

A SENIOR theologian has urged all five still-practising bishops who failed to prevent the sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese to resign for the sake of the Church.

ALL anybody has wanted to hear from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the past week has been sincerity and humility.

A leading theologian is calling for all bishops named in the Murphy report to resign immediately.

IN his letter headlined ‘The Church always pays for the sins of the past’ (June 15), Rev Dr D Vincent Twomey refers to the lecture by Fr Edward Flanagan of Boys Town, Nebraska, in the Savoy Cinema, Cork, in 1946.

COMMENTING on what I said in a BBC radio discussion on the Ryan Report, Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, 09.06.09) accused me of trying “to sustain the argument, in the light of everything we know, that the abuse of decades was the work of a few misplaced rotten apples”.

THE people who abused children in our industrial schools were “the dregs of society in a certain sense”.

AN ARRANGEMENT between the State and the Catholic Church’s pregnancy advice service on issuing abortion clinic contacts must end, a moral theologian insisted yesterday.

Miriam Saunders (29) 62 nett at Kilrush; Vincent Twomey (19) 46 pts at Macroom; Kevin O’Regan (12) 46 pts at Skibbereen, Michael Brassil jnr (14) 46 pts at Ballinasloe.