Bishop speaks of new challenges in Catholic education

WHAT should have been operating as a vision of hope, was actually destroying it, the Bishop of Limerick said yesterday about Ireland’s child abuse scandal.

Dr Donal Murray said the commission report had shown how a vision was “betrayed and deformed” by the pain caused to so many children.

He made his comments after addressing a conference on Catholic education in contemporary Ireland, held at Mary Immaculate College of Education in Limerick.