Church’s inability to keep pace with liberal society reflected in decline of national seminary. For much of its 221-year history, St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, a
town near Dublin, had an intimate connection with every corner of this
once deeply Catholic country. As Ireland’s national seminary, it trained
young men for the priesthood, to be dispatched to every parish.
This week, as it grapples with the demons of a recent history of the sexual abuse of children by some of those priests, the Irish Catholic church finds itself engulfed in a fresh controversy, which will make its task of rehabilitation with the Irish public even more difficult.
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This week, as it grapples with the demons of a recent history of the sexual abuse of children by some of those priests, the Irish Catholic church finds itself engulfed in a fresh controversy, which will make its task of rehabilitation with the Irish public even more difficult.
https://next.ft.com/content/ec390464-5af7-11e6-8d05-4eaa66292c32
