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Wed 12 Dec 2009Taoiseach defends behaviour of Vatican
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen said it was not “unreasonable to assume the Holy See was open to responding to a further approach through diplomatic channels” from the Murphy commission investigating clerical child sex abuse in Dublin.
“Neither is it unreasonable to assume that when the papal nuncio received correspondence from the commission, in February 2007 and earlier this year, both the present and previous papal nuncios believed the matter was more properly addressed by the diplomatic note,” he added.
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