Vincent Twomey in an article in today's Irish Times concludes:
"In the meantime, we need to recover one of the most important values we inherited from the UK: the importance of the presumption of innocence before possibly being found guilty by due process. As far as Irish Catholic clergy and religious are concerned, that presumption no longer holds today and will not change tomorrow."
If any member of the 'Irish Catholic clergy and religious' believe they have been libelled or slandered they have recourse to the Irish Courts.
It's another attempt at turning the 'Irish Catholic clergy and religious' into the victim.
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It's a fairly rambling piece as though Fr. Twomey started listening to himself in the middle of it.
It is not clear whether his final paragraph, which you quote, is saying that the church, and by implication the clergy & sisters, has a lot to answer for and is therefore guilty even before an enquiry starts, or, whether, like Fr. Flannery, he is actually giving out about this attitude where one only has to be a religious to be presumed guilty from the start.
He could have been a lot clearer if he had bothered.
Poor Vincent Twomey seems to be stressed by lack of exposure now that his former tutor has left the active papacy.
He not only turned up in the piece referred to above with his rambling and ill defined comments, but he is at it again, as quoted in today's Irish Independent.
He is now giving out about Mary McAleese's perfectly rational criticism of the imbalance in the forthcoming Synod on the Family by playing the woman and not the ball. He thinks her comments are not serious and her language is not in keeping with what you would expect from an ex-president.
He would be better occupied thinking about them as coming from a sensible, erudite and constructive woman and laying off the stereotypes.
I notice he also got, for the multimillionth time, a mention as a former student of Benedict Emeritus.
Benedict should have taken the hint and made him Bishop of Bongobongoland, where he could have seen out his days off-air and away from the rest of us.
Speaking to the Irish Independent Fr Twomey, a former student of the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, said the language used was "not in keeping with what you would expect from an ex president."
A perfect example of clerical patronising speak and so exquisitely crafted in that tone of " but don't I know best".
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