Bishops need to restore integrity of Catholic teaching within its schools

After the recent same sex marriage referendum, Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin stated that the Church needed to learn some lessons. That must go down as the understatement of the century.

Bishops need to restore integrity of Catholic teaching within its schools

From a Catholic perspective the elephant in the room question is surely how to explain the fact that a country with a huge percentage of “Catholic” schools, could return such a vote.

Given the clear nature of Catholic teaching on this matter (which remains the same and is not subject to majority vote), an obvious answer is that Catholic schools are either not teaching Catholic beliefs, or teaching them inadequately.

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