Prominent Irish priest backs calls for bishops' resignations
December 04, 2009
Father Vincent Twomey, an Irish theologian who taught at the Irish seminary in Maynooth, has joined the calls for some bishops to resign in the wake of a public report showing a cover-up of sex-abuse complaints against priests in the Dublin archdiocese. Father Twomey, who described the bishops’ performance as “inexcusable” in a letter published by the Irish Times, has now told The Universe that the problem is “being exacerbated by the bishops’failure to stand down and take responsibility.” Father Twomey’s public statements have a special impact, not only because he is a professor emeritus at the Maynooth seminary, but also because he is a former student of Pope Benedict who remains in contact with the Pontiff.
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Posted by: skladach -
Dec. 04, 2009 8:04 PM ET USA
Fr. Twomey's book about his former professor summarizes much of Ratzinger's theology correctly. But then there are several passages suffused with that familiar glow of post-conciliar wishful thinking, which cloud his judgment and even his perception of the issues. "In contact with" is not synonymous with "speaks for".
