Dublin, July 21 (ANI): Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has launched an attack against the Vatican, accusing it of 'dysfunction and elitism' in its failure to tackle clerical child sex abuse.
The comments from the Prime Minister came during a parliamentary debate on a report, which accused the Roman Catholic Church of failings in its handling allegations of sexual abuse against 19 clerics in the diocese of Cloyne in southern Ireland.
"Because for the first time in Ireland, a report into child sexual abuse exposes an attempt by the Holy See to frustrate an inquiry. And in doing so, the Cloyne report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism, that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day," Kenny was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.
"The rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation," he added.
The Cloyne report rocked predominately Catholic Ireland, detailing horrific sex abuse of children and attempts by Church leaders to cover them up.
The two-year probe into the handling of complaints made by the diocese of Cloyne between 1996 and 2009 found that the authorities' response as 'inadequate and inappropriate'.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi declined to comment on Kenny's remarks. (ANI)
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