Time for us all to stand up

Garry O’Sullivan argues that, to have a credible long-term future, the Irish Catholic Church needs radical surgery

TO PARAPHRASE poet Robert Frost, two roads diverged in the yellow woods and the bishops can’t travel both. Bishop Donal Murray has chosen the road less travelled and in doing so has put victims of abuse, clergy and laity and, indeed the good of the Church itself, ahead of any personal considerations.

Bishop Donal is a learned and likeable pastor and will be sorely missed for his theological prowess which was without equal among his fellow bishops. He was also a man who had a gentle and quiet outreach to some of the most vulnerable and poor in Limerick.