Talk:McCullough Report

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Mary Henry[edit]

I've removed for now the extensive quote from Mary Henry, which read:

In the November 2005 Irish Senate debate, Mary Henry considered that:

"One of the most serious aspects of the Ferns Report is the section dealing with former Monsignor Ledwith, who we learn later was involved in the sexual abuse of children. This is significant because for the ten years between 1985 and 1995, the then Monsignor Ledwith was president of Maynooth College, the most important Irish institution for the training of priests. This begs the question as to what type of training on sexual matters priests studying in Maynooth at the time received from this man. [page 1365] I listened with dismay to the Vincent Browne programme last night as a moral theologian from Maynooth appeared to suggest, as he did in an article in The Irish Times earlier in the week, that the bishops may not have understood that child sexual abuse was a crime. It is beyond belief that he should make this suggestion or suggest that Vatican II was somehow responsible for making sexual sins a form of emotional aberration. I query that anyone should teach theology of that nature nowadays. With regard to Monsignor Ledwith, I was dismayed to read the response of the bishops to whom complaints were made by six senior seminarians, as they are described in the report, as well as the senior dean of Maynooth College, Fr. Gerard McGinnity. Cardinal Daly, one of the surviving bishops, indicated in his statement to the inquiry that it was entirely untrue that any seminarian had mentioned homosexuality to him in connection with Monsignor Ledwith. He also stated it was not credible that he would have ignored allegations of homosexuality when he was already investigating the issue in Maynooth College. The Cardinal added that if the issue had been raised with him, Monsignor Ledwith would never have been appointed president of Maynooth College. Unfortunately, I have found that the Cardinal’s memory is not always clear.^[1]

Other than an issue of weight - its quite an extensive quote - and that it seems more related to general matters and the Ferns Report than the McCullough Report, it makes a couple of allegations that make me feel uncomfortable, in particular in regard to Ledwith. I am happy if consensus is that it should be in the article, but I thought it best to bring it here for discussion. - Bilby (talk) 05:29, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Senate debate, 10 November 2005

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[1] Senate debate, 10 November 2005

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