Bishop Magee the pedophilia link of John Paul II. VIDEOS Bishop Magee covered-up Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests during JP2 and Benedict XVI papacy

Bishop Magee the only bishop cited and condemned in the recent Cloyne Diocese Report

Another living proof that John Paul II knew about the existence of pedophile priests during his 27 years papacy (in addition to Cardinal Bernard Law and Fr. Marcial Maciel) was through his personal secretary, Bishop Magee, who covered up 19 pedophile priests in the Cloyne Diocese. Bishop Magee served as personal secretary to 3 popes, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II — from 1969 to 1982. He then served as John Paul II's master of ceremonies until 1987.

John Paul II personally knew about the 80 pedophile priest in Boston whom Cardinal Bernard Law confessed in public in 2002 that he covered-up for decades and transferred them from one parish to another. John Paul II died in 2005. Imagine that now, in Canada, it is being revealed that 22 pedophile priests had hundreds of victims, read our related article Canada: 22 priests, hundreds of victims. Oh, when the JP2 Army keeps marching on this Earth, JP2 is rotting in Hell http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/canada-22-priests-hundreds-of-victims.html Therefore, how many more hundreds or thousands can 80 pedophile priests have in Boston. That is why Cardinal Bernard Law was forced to resign – by the laity and by his own priests – but John Paul II papal farted at us Bostonians by elevating Law as Archpriest of the St. Mary Major –that is right as “Crown Prince” of Rome, just like the new “Crown Prince of Venice”, read our related article here John Allen promotes monarchy of Catholicism. As Vatican Pied Piper he announces ‘Meet the new Crown Prince of Catholicism’ http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-allen-promotes-monarchy-of.html

The claim by the Vaticanist John Allen that John Paul II knew nothing of priest pedophilia is hogwash, read our related article John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html

America & the World, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama's 9-11, read our related article 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Read our related article Fr. Murphy in the Evil Eyes of Benedict XVI On 'Today' Show: Religious Leader Tells Americans To 'Continue The Faith In Christ' http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

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The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore speaking about the Cloyne report about "betrayal"

Deputy Michael McCarthy speaking on the Cloyne Report that John Magee is "absolutely degusting..." and "the Vatican is absolutely appalling and the Vatican ambassador should be expelled"




Stephen Donnelly on Cloyne Report - "It is time for the Catholic Church to remove themselves from our schools, they have proven themselves unfit..."


Cloyne report: Church failed to report all abuse cases happened as recent as 3 years ago in 2009..."private agenda of concealment..."

Irish bishop resigns amid sex abuse scandal

Cleric shielded abuser’s identity from police, investigators found

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36016131/ns/world_news-europe/t/irish-bishop-resigns-amid-sex-abuse-scandal/

updated 3/24/2010

DUBLIN — Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop Wednesday for his failure to report child-molesting priests to police — and faced a renewed reminder of the German abuse case most closely linked to his own time in charge of Munich.

Bishop John Magee — who served as secretary to Benedict's three papal predecessors before returning to Ireland in 1987 — apologized to victims of any pedophile priests who were kept in parish posts during his 23 years overseeing the southwest Irish diocese of Cloyne.

"To those whom I have failed in any way, or through any omission of mine have made suffer, I beg forgiveness and pardon," the 73-year-old Magee said in his resignation statement. Irish government investigators are continuing to explore Cloyne abuse cover-ups and expect to report findings later this year.

The Vatican is on the defensive over ever-unfolding accusations that church leaders have protected child abusers for decades in many countries.

Benedict last week issued an unprecedented letter to Ireland addressing the 16 years of church cover-up scandals here. But he has yet to say anything about his handling
of the Rev. Peter Hullermann, the case known to have developed on the pope's watch when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he oversaw the Munich Archdiocese from 1977 to 1982.

Munich Archdiocese spokesman Bernhard Kellner said Wednesday a new person has come forward claiming to have been abused in 1998 by Hullermann. Kellner gave no other details.

Hullermann had been accused of abusing boys in Essen, western Germany, in the 1970s when Ratzinger approved his 1980 transfer to Munich to receive psychological treatment for pedophilia. Until recent years the church in many countries referred child abusers in the priesthood to private clinics — and not the police — when accused of crimes.

Hullermann was convicted in 1986 of abusing a youth, but church officials insist the new abuse happened after Ratzinger was already promoted to higher duties in the Vatican. Hullerman recently was removed again from parish duties after he was discovered still to be in regular contact with children.

Panel assembled to investigate
In a related development, the German government announced Wednesday it is forming a 40-strong panel of experts to investigate the extent of child abuse in Catholic and other institutions for children. The commission will be asked to recommend reforms to Germany's current statutes of limitations so that abuse victims can pursue priests and other church officials for civil damages and criminal liability.

Irish society is still debating the merits of Saturday's message from Benedict apologizing for decades of unchecked child abuse by priests, nuns and other clerics. The letter criticized Irish bishops, promised a Vatican inspection of unspecified dioceses and religious orders in Ireland — but accepted no Vatican responsibility for promoting a culture of cover-up.

Benedict also has yet to accept resignation offers from three other Irish bishops who were linked to cover-ups of child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, the subject of a government-ordered investigation that published its findings four months ago.

Magee had been expected to resign ever since an Irish church-commissioned investigation into the mishandling of child-abuse reports in Cloyne ruled two years ago that Magee and his senior diocesan aides failed to tell police quickly about two 1990s cases.

The church and government suppressed publication of that report until December 2008. Magee immediately faced calls to quit from victims' rights activists and some parishioners. They accused him of ignoring an Irish church policy enacted in 1996 requiring all abuse cases to be reported to police.

Magee remained Cloyne bishop in name but transferred day-to-day responsibilities to his superior, Archbishop Dermot Clifford, in March 2009.

Cardinal Sean Brady, leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, offered prayers and praise for Magee.

"However, foremost in my thoughts in these days are those who have suffered abuse by clergy and those who feel angry and let down by the often-inadequate response of leaders in the church," Brady said.

Brady, a Vatican-trained canon lawyer, faces his own cover-up accusations. He has admitted collecting evidence in 1975 from two altar-boy victims of a notorious pedophile priest — but had both boys sign confidentiality agreements and never passed his information to police. That priest, Brendan Smyth, wasn't imprisoned until 1994 after molesting scores of children in Ireland and the United States. Brady confessed his sense of shame in his St. Patrick's Day sermon.

The church's Cloyne report found that Magee and his diocesan deputies fielded complaints from parishioners about two priests from 1995 onward — but told the police nothing until 2003 and little thereafter. The report said Cloyne church authorities appeared solely concerned with helping the two priests, not protecting children of the diocese.

One priest, who was accused of molesting a younger priest when he was a teenager, was encouraged by Magee to resign. But the investigation found that the bishop shielded the abuser's identity from police — and considered such concealment "the normal practice" for the church.

The other priest, a career guidance counselor in a convent school, was accused by several teenage girls and grown women of molesting or raping them since 1995. One complaint came from a woman who had a consensual sexual relationship with the priest for a year — then saw him develop an intimate relationship with her 14-year-old son.

The church has declined to identify the two priests publicly by name. Neither has faced any criminal charges.

Magee, who was born in the Northern Ireland border town of Newry, served as a private secretary to three successive popes — Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II — from 1969 to 1982. He then served as John Paul II's master of ceremonies until 1987.

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Bishop Magee did Vatican bidding by covering up Cloyne pedophile priests - VIDEO

At the heart of the Bishop of Cloyne affair is a dark reality that is truly shocking.

Bishop John Magee was carrying out Vatican orders when he delegated the responsibility for the pedophile priests in his diocese to an underling and allowed him to overlook the worst abusers.

One wonders what pressing tasks the Bishop had that were so urgent that he could turnover such a critical and vital task to an underling.

Now we know why -so the Vatican fingerprints would not be on it.

The Vatican has long refused to sign off on the strict code of conduct put together by the Irish church after the sordid revelations about the past emerged. The key one was to report all suspected pedophiles to police.

As a Vatican man, through and through, Magee was following Vatican orders.

The Cloyne cover-up began into events that happened after the worst of the previous excesses were in the public domain and the Irish church had issued new firm guidelines which included giving any information to police.
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Magee is a Vatican creation, however, secretary to three popes and a man on his way to the top of the irish church until some internal scandal derailed him and sent him to Cloyne instead. He was still taking their orders however.

We can guess what his own scandal was after he attempted to kiss a 17-year old seminary student and said he dreamed about him, a fact included in the Murphy report

But he clearly never forgot his Vatican roots. It is a place where the current Pope has much to answer for on this issue, where Cardinal Law of Boston, a notorious enabler of pedophiles was promoted, where Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, the most courageous cleric standing in the face of this pedophile scandal, has been ignored and belittled.

The Irish government called in the Papal Nuncio in Ireland yesterday and demanded a Vatican response saying it was 'absolutely unacceptable' that the Vatican had intervened in Ireland and discouraged priests from reporting crimes against innocent children.

Foreign Minister Gilmore said what happened in Ireland was 'a totally inappropriate, unjustified, unacceptable intervention'.

'This is modern Ireland and this was a recent occasion of abuse of children and this was a recent intervention by Vatican authorities,' he said.

Once Irish governments would have quaked at the very presence of the Papal Nuncio, but no more.

Now the chairman of the Fine Gael party Charlie Flanagan, son of the most devout Catholic legislator in Irish history, Oliver Flanagan, called for the Papal Nuncio to be expelled

The nuncio's response was a polite buzz off, regretting the scandal but promising little.

Like the House of Bourbon the Vatican has learned nothing and remembered nothing.

Magee, now happily vacationing somewhere in America knows he has served his true lord and masters and to hell with the little children.

It is beyond cynicism and belief.

Irish PM blasts ‘narcissism’ of Vatican. The narcissism of John Paul II and the Vatican are one and the same

At last, at the dawn of this 21st century, a real head of state that represents an entire country is taking on the mighty Vatican (its official name is the Holy See - a “country” made up of one building that house only male, population less than a USA High School, where women and children are forbidden to live). Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny launched an unparalleled first-time attack against the Vatican right within the walls of the Irish parliament, the chamber where Irish laws and Irish destinies are determined and proclaimed and thus his attack against the Vatican couldn’t be more “official”. "This is not Rome. This is the Republic of Ireland 2011, a republic of laws," Prime Minister Enda Kenny told Irish lawmakers.

I move the motion.

The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the Government, Irish Catholics and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.

It's fair to say that after the Ryan and Murphy Reports Ireland is, perhaps, unshockable when it comes to the abuse of children.

But Cloyne has proved to be of a different order.

Because for the first time in Ireland, a report into child sexual-abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See, to frustrate an Inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic, as little as three years ago, not three decades ago.

And in doing so, the Cloyne Report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism....the narcissism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.

The rape and torture of children were downplayed or 'managed' to uphold instead, the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and 'reputation'.

Read the full speech with bold emphasis and watch the video here Irish PM Enda Kenny speech on Cloyne Report: VIDEOS http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/irish-pm-enda-kenny-speech-on-cloyne.html

On Wednesday, the entire Ireland’s parliament rebuked the Vatican -- the government and all opposition parties unanimously backed a motion accusing the Vatican -- of impairing the Irish bishops' 1996 resolution to report suspected cases of child sex abuse to police. An Irish Senator has called on the entire hierarchy of the country’s Catholic Church to resign!

Prime Minister Kenny’s speech against the Vatican was mightier than any ballistic missiles in the arsenal of the USA and NATO for indeed the pen and the tongue are mightier than the sword as Gandhi in the 20th century demonstrated when he singled handily dethroned the British Empire that encompassed countries where the sun rises to where the sun sets. The Vatican today is the last empire that can claim such a global kingdom from where the sun rises to where the sun sets. Ireland, like Gandhi, may be the first country to end that global Vatican Empire.

The last time a head of state dared challenged Rome was King Henry the VIII of England and he was excommunicated. But his royal intentions were personal and self-serving; he wanted Rome to keep on annulling and blessing his marriages to several wives. This time the Irish Prime Minister is blasting the Vatican, not for personal reasons but for the sake of children. And it is based on 19 children who were raped and sexually abused by pedophile priests of the Cloyne Diocese who in turn were aided and abetted by the Vatican. This time, how these 19 children suffered under the Vatican were enough to jolt the heart, conscience and lips of the Prime Minister of Ireland to denounce the “narcissism” of the Vatican. He took to heart the Cloyne Report and defined what ruled the Vatican with four major words: elitism, dysfunction, disconnection, and narcissism. No, it isn’t Christ or “holiness” or Mary or charity that dominate the Vatican but God-and-Mammon elitism, the John Paul II Galaxy size ego narcissism, read our related article 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html.

This is the second time that the word “narcissism” is being applied to the top echelon at the Vatican. The first time was when we defined the “narcissism” of John Paul II in this blog, read the full article here The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html And on June 28, 2011, feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, while a Latin Mass was an attempt to make a magical closure by of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the aptly named JP2 Army in the USA, the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army, we published in our blog Stella Maris about the John Paul II Galaxy size ego usurps Mary statues. ‘The Holy Father’ John Paul II ousts Baby Jesus from the arms of His ‘Holy Mother’ Mary! http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/ On July 13, 2011, the Cloyne Report was released and on July 14, the Irish Prime Minister released a statement that "The law of the land should not be stopped by a crozier or by a collar" read more in our related article Ireland condemns Vatican secrecy on Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests. Ireland vis-à-vis USA: the way they deal with crimes by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/ireland-government-condemns-vatican.html We follow the inspiration and again we see the timing of a “Higher Power” that prove us right again and again just like the comparisons we have made on the victims of New york's 9-11 victims and the victims of the JP2 Army in the USA, read our article Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

The four cornerstone of the Vatican: elitism, dysfunction, disconnection, narcissism

The Vatican and John Paul II are one and the same

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny defined further the “narcissism of the Vatican” with elitism, dysfunction, and disconnection. These four words go together and John Paul II personified and proved them as well. “Elitism” applies so well to John Paul II who elevated the disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston as Archpriest of the ‘mother of all basilicas of Rome’ the St. Mary Major. John Paul II papal farted at us Bostonians that we are mere laity and he proved the elitism of the “Crown Princes Cardinals” which cannot be touched by the mere lower-class laity of Boston who forced him to resign and flee Boston, read our related article John Allen promotes monarchy of Catholicism. As Vatican Pied Piper he announces ‘Meet the new Crown Prince of Catholicism’ http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-allen-promotes-monarchy-of.html. John Paul II also exemplified “dysfunction” because as the almighty infallible ruler of the roman Catholic church, he was a dysfunctional Holy Father to 1.1 billion Catholics as he kept enabling his JP2 Army of pedophile priests with the Sacraments of the Confessional and Eucharist as exemplified by his promoting one of the worst serial pedophile priest Father Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, read our related article here John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html. John Paul II was definitely a pope of “disconnection” because he was so disconnected from victims that he never once raised his voice to speak against pedophile priests during his longest papacy of 27 years. John Paul II was totally disconnected from children, the least of Christ’s brethren. John Paul II was disconnected from humanity as he lived in the lap of luxury in the out-of-touch with reality Vatican Palace – as he fed on his narcissistic self-idolatry as ‘John Paul II the Great’.

It’s time, the Vatican loses its global Empire from where the sun rise and where the sun sets in the 21st century. Ireland and Prime Minister Enda Kenny, may you end the Empire of the Vatican, once and for all.

America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/

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Enda Kenny, Ireland's Prime Minister

An Irish leader, at last, who speaks truth ...

IRELAND
Irish Central
July 21, 2011

by Niall O'Dowd

The stars have capsized in Ireland and Britain this week. In Britain the Wicked Witch, alias Rupert Murdoch, is dead and the populace is waking up to a new reality.

In Ireland the Prime Minister Enda Kenny gave the most courageous speech arguably in the country's history when he confronted the Vatican with the fallout from their benighted policy of covering up child sexual abuse.

This is a country remember, where until relatively recently the "special position of the Catholic Church" was enshrined in the constitution.

The speech titled 'This is a Republic not the Vatican" by The Irish Times castigated the Vatican for deciding that Ireland's civil laws did not extend to them...

Kenny spoke truth to power and he deserves enormous credit for it .

He feels it deeply where children are concerned. His words ring out as the ultimate chastisement to the Vatican who appear to regard children, not as flesh and blood but some bargaining chip in a complicated law suit they must reluctantly deal with.

Kenny stated "As Taoiseach, I want to do all I can to protect the sacred space of childhood and to restore its innocence, especially our young teenagers, whom I believe to be children, because regardless of our current economic crisis, the children of this country are, and always will be, our most precious possession of all.

Kenny concluded :"Safeguarding their integrity and innocence must be a national priority. This is why I undertook to create a Cabinet ministry for children and youth affairs. The legislation Children First proposes to give our children maximum protection and security without intruding on the hectic, magical business of being a child."

Now that is leadership .

As for Magee he is hiding out somewhere in America, perhaps with good reason. Under the 2006 Criminal Justice act he may well be arrested for endangering children.

That, Dear Reader, is what the country needs to see

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Editorial: A landmark moment in Irish history

http://www.herald.ie/opinion/editorial-a-landmark-moment-in-irish-history-2827754.html
Thursday July 21 2011

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny's scathing attack on the Vatican in the Dail was both unexpected and startling. Never before has an Irish Taoiseach used such language, accusing the Catholic hierarchy of putting the Church ahead of child rape victims.
Mr Kenny, a faithful, practising Catholic, charged the Vatican with downplaying or "managing" the rape and torture of children in order to uphold its own power.

The Cloyne Report had excavated the "dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day", Mr Kenny said.
It was a damning assessment of Rome's attitude to paedophile priests -- and its attempt to "frustrate" an inquiry.

The Taoiseach's strong words needed to be said.

It was a landmark moment -- and a 21st century declaration of Irish freedom and independence.

Kenny has crossed the Rubicon with all-out attack on Rome

IRELAND
Irish Independent

LIKE a Crusader heading off to pagan lands to fight the Infidel, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has embarked on an all-out battle against the heinous evil of protected clerical paedophilia in the Vatican citadel which he must not lose.

Unlike his predecessors in the office of Taoiseach, he is not rallying to the cause of the Papal Flag. He is taking on the Vicar of Christ and Supreme Pontiff under the banner of 'Children First'.

Whether wittingly in full knowledge of the likely consequences of his historic challenge to Roman supremacy, or merely playing to the gallery, the man from Mayo, literally, yesterday crossed a Rubicon of no return.

Irish press hails PM's 'historic' attack on Vatican

DUBLIN AFP - IRISH media on Thursday hailed Prime Minister Enda Kenny's blistering attack on the Vatican's handling of clerical child abuse, saying his speech ended decades of Dublin's 'obeisance' to Rome.

Several newspapers in the mainly Roman Catholic country described Kenny's speech to parliament on Wednesday as 'unprecedented', saying that no Irish premier had ever spoken of the papal state in such terms.

Kenny was reacting to a judicial report on the Church's failures in handling abuse claims against 19 clerics in Cloyne diocese in southern Ireland.

Its inability to properly deal with the affair showed a culture of 'dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism' at the Vatican, he said.

'Enda Kenny, with steely eloquence, has ended decades of government obeisance to Rome,' said a sketch in the Irish Times.

'Never before has the head of an Irish government spoken of the Vatican in such terms as Enda Kenny did yesterday,' it added.