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Mon 07 Jul 2010Church was in need of painful surgery, says new bishop
The Irish Catholic Church had been brought to its knees, “but maybe that is no bad thing”, the new Catholic Bishop of Clogher Liam McDaid said at his ordination ceremony in Monaghan yesterday.
He also invited people and priests of the diocese to join him on a “repentant return to the well of salvation”.
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