Post by Administration on Mar 22, 2010 14:17:17 GMT
From The Sunday Times
November 29, 2009
Murphy report: Church with a rotten core
Justine McCarthy
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6936278.ece
Fr William Carney, a “crude and loutish” priest who “used bad language” and was then aged 29, had lunch with Michael Woods, the then health minister, in 1980.
For three years Carney had been making inquiries about his chances of fostering children. A social worker who dealt with him thought his plan odd because “generally, priests don’t parent children”.
After his lunch with the minister, Carney wrote to Dermot Ryan, the archbishop of Dublin, claiming that Woods anticipated “no difficulty from the Eastern Health Board” in acquiring approval as a foster parent.
On the day before a general election was called in 2002, Woods, now the education minister, capped at €128m the religious orders’ liability for compensation of people abused as children in residential institutions.
November 29, 2009
Murphy report: Church with a rotten core
Justine McCarthy
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6936278.ece
Fr William Carney, a “crude and loutish” priest who “used bad language” and was then aged 29, had lunch with Michael Woods, the then health minister, in 1980.
For three years Carney had been making inquiries about his chances of fostering children. A social worker who dealt with him thought his plan odd because “generally, priests don’t parent children”.
After his lunch with the minister, Carney wrote to Dermot Ryan, the archbishop of Dublin, claiming that Woods anticipated “no difficulty from the Eastern Health Board” in acquiring approval as a foster parent.
On the day before a general election was called in 2002, Woods, now the education minister, capped at €128m the religious orders’ liability for compensation of people abused as children in residential institutions.