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Tue 12 Dec 2009An abysmal abdication of responsibility
OPINION:If Bishop Willie Walsh doesn’t get it, what hope is there for the rest of the institutional church?
BISHOP WILLIE Walsh is a very fine person. Over the years, he has been the most important voice within the Irish Catholic hierarchy for humility and openness. He was the first bishop to really understand the depth of the moral crisis caused by the church’s cover-up of child sexual abuse by clergy. He has since been the only bishop prepared to engage with the need for a radical transformation of the priesthood and of the power structures that made the cover-up not merely possible but inevitable.
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