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27 February 2017

Cardinal Connell was ill-suited to deal with the child abuse scandal

Controversial former Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, dies aged 90, writes Liam Collins.
 Cardinal Desmond Connell, who died overnight last Monday in Dublin, at the age of 90, was a sincere and learned academic theologian, ill-equipped to deal with the sexual abuse scandal which had engulfed the Irish Catholic Church and into which he was plunged after his appointment as Archbishop of Dublin in 1988.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/cardinal-connell-was-illsuited-to-deal-with-the-child-abuse-scandal-35482847.html