The Irish Times View: St Patrick’s College Maynooth - priestly formation and disinformation
Many Catholics will ask simply “what on earth is going on?”
That Archbishop Diarmuid Martin can speak of “the closed strange world of seminaries” and of the “poisonous” atmosphere in St Patrick’s College Maynooth, of which he is a trustee, will be troubling to many Catholics. Their faith in the institution of the church rattled by successive scandals, public dissension in the hierarchy over the college and priestly formation can only serve to add new concerns about the seminary’s management, the opaqueness of church governance and its continuing inability to reform. It will do little to foster badly needed vocations.
Many of the faithful will ask simply “what on earth is going on?” The complaints are general and vague, and at least two or three different agendas are being confusingly played out.