Readers Blog: Pope should have shed all the trappings of wealth
After Pope Francis’ lukewarm reception in Ireland, it may be the words of the Taoiseach LeoVaradkar that will be remembered.
His searing assessment of “brutal crimes perpetrated by people within the Catholic Church and then obscured to protect the institution at the expense of innocent victims” may go down in history with Columbanus’ famous letter of advice to Pope Boniface IV in 612 AD.
