The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has
said he regrets saying the church needed a “reality check” following
the marriage equality referendum, as the phrase has since been widely
misunderstood. He was speaking at the MacGill Summer School on Beyond 2016 – What are our Aspirations for the Republic.
“The first thing that the Church must do is to carry
out continuous – what I have called – ‘reality checks’. In some ways I
regret that I ever used that term in a recent RTÉ
interview. What I said was taken up in the press – national and
international, ecclesiastical and lay – all over the world and no two
stories had the same interpretation of what I intended, indeed of what I
actually said.
