Taoiseach’s Vatican rebuke finds favour among faithful

MASS-GOERS in the Taoiseach’s home constituency of Castlebar had plenty of praise for him following his scathing attack on the Vatican this week.

The Taoiseach did not attend his usual 10.30am service at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar, yesterday but his stinging rebuke of the Catholic hierarchy’s attempts to cover up abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne found favour among the local faithful.

During Wednesday’s Dáil debate on the fallout from the findings of the Cloyne Report, the Taoiseach said the report had illuminated the dysfunction and elitism still dominating in the Vatican. The rape and torture of children had been downplayed to uphold the institution’s power and reputation.