Is it time for Bishop Magee to go ?

[Glennshane]

[QUOTE=Vega1447;1353250] I'm not a member of the RCC so I don't have any right to call on their clergy to resign.

Thank you for being so well mannered. Good manners are so unusual among Eirefolk.

As a citizen of this republic I do have the right to vote to get the RCC out of education, health and social services.[/

And Catholics have a right to refuse to let you teach their children. Would you also vote to get the Church of Ireland out of education?

[Factorem]

Glennshane, what's with the hang-up against protestants?

Did the protestant boys throw apple cores at you on your way home from school?

[Glennshane]

Glennshane, what's with the hang-up against protestants?

Did the protestant boys throw apple cores at you on your way home from school?

Please stick to the topic and admit the truth. The hate campaign against Dr Magee, the bishop of Cloyne, stems from one fact. Dr Magee is an Ulster Catholic. Hence the hatred of him in the Eire media.

[Mr Magoo]

Please stick to the topic and admit the truth. The hate campaign against Dr Magee, the bishop of Cloyne, stems from one fact. Dr Magee is an Ulster Catholic. Hence the hatred of him in the Eire media.

Most certainly not.... and I in Cloyne area. I'm afraid not ... from day one here he has been the most condescending, arrogant, pr*** to all in his so called flock.

Can guarantee you no one cared where he was from and most did not even know.

[Geekzilla]

Please stick to the topic and admit the truth. The hate campaign against Dr Magee, the bishop of Cloyne, stems from one fact. Dr Magee is an Ulster Catholic. Hence the hatred of him in the Eire media.

Those making complaints about his handling of complaints include a Catholic priest from the diocese of Cloyne who made allegations against another priest of the same diocese, the Conference Of Religious of Ireland (CORI) and the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.

When there are complaints about him coming from within his own church, it's a sign that his handling of complaints is wanting and clearly isn't an anti-Catholic thing, let along because he's a Catholic from the North.

It's because of his mishandling of complains about abuse.

[Geekzilla]

[quote=Glennshane;1478320]

where they Irish taxpayer now pays financially for the vast majority of compensation for the abuse.

The State should be paying for it all as the church was acting as its agent.

As such, the Church (i.e. hierarchy) has some responsibility for what happened on its' watch.

Also, we still have no official explanation from Church #

You are not a Catholic and so are not entitled to any explanation from the Catholic Chruch about anything. Please mind your manners.

Actually, any organisation where crimes were committed by members and covered up owes an explanation to people inside and outside that organisation.

And, do you know if the Vatican now has a worldwide policy document on the protection of children?

None of your business.

Oh but it's very much the business of people inside and outside the Catholic Church. Just the same as with other churches where the same happened.

[Andrew49]

GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING allegations of clerical sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne are to prepare files for the DPP after interviewing a retired priest about allegations that he abused two young females. Yesterday’s interviewing of the retired priest comes in the wake of controversy over the manner in which the Bishop of Cloyne, Dr John Magee, handled previous allegations of clerical sex abuse by two priests in the diocese. Last December, the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church was highly critical of the way Bishop Magee handled a series of complaints of sexual abuse.

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[The Saltees Eagle]

Update as victims of the Cloyne abusers demand that Bishop Magee be stripped of his title;

'She added: “He was a disgrace. To call us ‘accusers’ as if we were telling lies about what happened to us? And to actually say ‘I’ll be back” when this ‘blows over’, as if he was Arnie Schwarzenegger, just shows he hasn’t a clue.

“Not only did they let us down and the Church but they let down all the people of Cloyne. And for Bishop John Magee to run off like that and not stay around to face the people was just total cowardice.”

A third victim described a letter from current Archbishop Dermot Clifford to all parishioners as meaningless.

“Words mean nothing to me. It is too late. If Magee, Clifford and O’Callaghan had thought about victims, we wouldn’t be where we are,” she said.

“The least they could do is offer to surrender those titles themselves.

“We shouldn’t have to be demanding that they are stripped of those titles. I can see from the report and from our own experiences, they were forced into apologies. They don’t want to apologize.'

Abuse victims call on Vatican to strip Cloyne pair of their titles | Irish News | IrishCentral

[The Saltees Eagle]

Duplicate- apologies.