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One of Ireland’s best-known priests has called on the Catholic church to halt recruitment to the priesthood until it has properly addressed the issue of clerical child abuse.
Fr Aidan Troy accused the church of “a wholly inadequate response to the horrendous abuse that has been uncovered”. He said the hierarchy must “take radical action rather than engage in window dressing”. The church here should ask the pope to visit Ireland to publicly apologise for the destruction of children’s lives, he said.
Troy came to prominence as parish priest of Holy Cross in north Belfast. For three months, he walked with the Ardoyne schoolchildren and their parents past a violent loyalist protest.
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