Prime Time Special: The Cloyne Report. 07/13/2011

Prime Time Special: The Cloyne Report republic of Ireland 07/13/2011 xvid.

link... http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1104581 just click A-Z and hit p and look for primetime. the link will not directly work so try this and it should be ok.

this is a shocking news report in relation to child abuse by the catholic church here in Cloyne Ireland which rome do not even want to discuss or even want to beleive exists.

and the failure of priests and bishops to report complaints to the Gardai (Irish police).

THE CATHOLIC Church and the State are on a collision course over Government plans to force priests to disclose information on child sexual abuse obtained in the confessional.

The measure, announced in response to the findings of a report on the handling of child abuse complaints in the diocese of Cloyne, is likely to encounter significant resistance within the church.

Under the plans put forward by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, priests could be jailed for up to five years for failing to disclose information on serious offences against a child even if this was obtained in Confession.

The fallout from the Cloyne report continued yesterday, with the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore sharply criticising the Vatican for undermining the Irish bishops’ child protection rules.

“The law of the land should not be stopped by a crozier or by a collar,” Mr Kenny said, while Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan and the Socialist Party called for the expulsion of the Vatican’s representative in Ireland, the papal nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza.

Asked for his reaction to the criticisms, the Vatican’s senior spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi declined to comment, saying only: “I have nothing to say until such time as there is a formal Vatican response.”

Church spokesmen said yesterday they wanted to see the text of Mr Shatter’s Bill before making a definitive comment. However, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh Dr Gerard Clifford said the bond of secrecy attached to Confession had to be respected.

Mr Kenny hinted that the Government could close the Irish Embassy to the Holy See in the wake of the report. Asked if the Government might close the Embassy given that it already has an Embassy in Italy, Mr Kenny said the Minister for Foreign Affairs had “adjustments” to make to Irish diplomatic representation.

canon law should be abolished and will be now by the looks of things and civil law should be and will be the law for all. the church cannot hide behind their own law making.

all opinions and comments in relation to this are welcome.