Vatican critics travel in good company

THE criticism by a number of Irish priests of the Vatican’s (ie, the Pope’s) response to the Murphy report and the ongoing revelations of a global clerical abuse cover-up is well stated (‘Priests criticise Vatican response to report fallout’, April 22).

Those priests travel in good company with a similar astute critic, the Irish scholar Sedulius who complained in the ninth century:

“To go to Rome –