Irish Prime Minister’s attack on Holy See an ‘overreaction’

[lizardley]

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has launched an unprecedented and ferocious attack on the Catholic Church in parliament following the Cloyne Report claiming ‘for the first time in Ireland, a report into child sexual abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See, to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago, not three decades ago.’

In personal statement, Fr Frederico Lombardi, director of the Holy See press office, said the response to the report had been an overreaction.

Read more at: sconews.co.uk/news/10756/irish-prime-minister%E2%80%99s-attack-on-holy-see-an-%E2%80%98overreaction%E2%80%99/

 

[FightingFat]

In personal statement, Fr Frederico Lombardi, director of the Holy See press office, said the response to the report had been an overreaction.

I wish Lombardi would shut up some times!

Enda Kelly’s (from the same part of Ireland as my family as it happens) speech was well crafted but some of it was out and out lies. Plus he quotes out of context, which lacks integrity.

A good appraisal of what Kelly said can be read here: thethirstygargoyle.blogspot.com/

Some key points:

The Cloyne Report contains absolutely no evidence of Rome having sought to frustrate an Inquiry in Ireland in the last three years.

Should The Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Minister for Justice and Equality, and Minister for Children succeed in making mandatory the reporting of all ‘knowledge’ of sexual abuse, irrespective of how one comes by that knowledge, such that failure to report abuse will be a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in prison, they will have succeeded only in creating an unenforceable and unconstitutional law, that will deprive thousands of abuse victims of the possibility of achieving any kind of peace in this life, while criminalising many thousands more.

 

[FightingFat]

Here’s another post on the subject:

Enda Kenny is right to be angry,but wrong to misrepresent Pope Benedict

 

[Fink]

Here’s another post on the subject:

Kenny has enough damning evidence, without having to manufacture some, by quoting out of context.
Pity someone wouldn`t ram (metaphorically) those words down his throat.

Thanks, FF: i`d never heard of that site.