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Mon 08 Aug 2008O'Loan urges bishops to make island-wide reforms
IRELAND'S CATHOLIC bishops need to arrive at agreement on an island-wide basis on the issues facing the future of the Catholic Church here, former Northern Ireland ombudsman Nuala O'Loan has said.
She has also called for the setting up of a general assembly of priests, "of their own choosing rather than by bishops' appointment", which could be organised on a diocese by diocese basis.
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