Church’s attitude to women condemned

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

Speaking during a Dáil debate on the report, Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke said the Church had lost affinity with its people, not least because of its “extraordinary” attitude to women.

“It is as if we were a race apart or dirty people, only to be tolerated because we have the wombs to have the children, we give birth to them, enrol them in primary schools and have them come out of those schools as good children of the faith.”