Martin: Some in Church ‘may be homophobic’

Some people in the Catholic Church may be homophobic and using its teaching against gay people, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin has admitted.

Voicing his opposition to extending marriage rights to same-sex couples, the archbishop urged people to “cleanse our memories” of homophobic attitudes.

“People in the Catholic Church may be homophobic,” he told RTÉ. “Certainly, the teaching of the Catholic Church could be used by some people in a homophobic way and we have to be very careful in the debate that isn’t done and at the same time that there isn’t a demonisation of the Catholic Church.”