Rome move story upsetting and damaging, says Martin

ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has described claims that he’s going to Rome to take up a senior position in the Curia as “a pure invention”.

The 60-year-old archbishop said there was “no truth” in the story which appeared on the front page of yesterday’s Irish Independent and that it was “upsetting and damaging”.

The newspaper’s religious affairs specialist, John Cooney, claimed Dr Martin’s imminent departure was part of Pope Benedict XVI’s far-ranging reform of the Curia, the Catholic Church’s central administration.