Martin must be transparent about funds

Dr Martin has not been open about the plan to pay abuse compensation with parish funds, writes Michael Kelly.

THE revelation that the Dublin Archdiocese has turned to the people in the pews to fund compensation for victims of clerical abuse is hardly surprising. Other dioceses have already had to go cap-in-hand to the faithful as a result of the abuse crisis.

What is surprising, however, is that Dublin appears to be going about it in such a cloak-and-dagger fashion and the diocese is only now reluctantly admitting the move after documents obtained by The Irish Catholic newspaper made the plan clear.