Cardinal’s failure was not in isolation
Eulogies for a cleric who was ‘ill-suited’ to deal with abuse crisis ignore underlying problems
The death of Cardinal Desmond Connell was accompanied by obituaries which predictably and justifiably focused on his leadership of the Catholic Church in Ireland during the fallout from the clerical abuse crisis.
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