US cardinal pulls out of Dublin visit which Limerick Bishop calls 'pivotal for Church’

The visit of Pope Francis presents a crossroads moment for the Church in Ireland to acknowledge its past, both the good and the bad, a bishop said yesterday.

By Stephen Rodgers and Eddie Cassidy

A prominent US cardinal — and the head of the church’s commission on child protection — has pulled out of next week’s World Meeting of Families in Ireland due to allegations in his own diocese.