Published Date: March 11, 2010

Tags: Church in Irland, clergy abuse, sex abuse scandal

Bishop Christopher Jones of of Elphin

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Media is behaving in an “unfair and unjust” manner by its over stress on the Church’s cover up child sex abuse cases, says Catholic Bishop Christopher Jones of of Elphin, Ireland.

“Could I just say with all this emphasis on cover-up, the cover-up has gone on for centuries, not just in the church… It’s going on today in families, in communities, in societies. Why are you singling out the church?” he asked.

A member of the Bishops’ Liaison Committee for Child Protection, he was speaking at a press conference in Maynooth on Wednesday where the Irish Episcopal Conference was concluding its three-day spring meeting.

He said the Church “is being isolated.” The Church people “know we’ve made mistakes. Of course we’ve made mistakes but why this huge isolation of the church and this huge focus on cover-up in the church when it has been going on for centuries?” he asked.

He said when Sigmund Freud alluded to the high levels of venereal disease among children, “he had to withdraw it. That’s the kind of cover-up that has gone on for centuries. I think you are unfair and unjust to the Church.”

Bishop Jones also described the Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin for seven years during the period investigated by the Murphy Commission, as “a scholar and a holy man” and that any reference to him in the Murphy report had been positive.

It emerged yesterday that Bishop Drennan has invited representatives from all parishes in his diocese to a service of reparation at Galway Cathedral on Palm Sunday, March 28th.

Source: Media ‘unfair and unjust’ - Bishop (irishtimes.com)

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