Call for State to step in on bishops' role in schools [Independent.ie]
- Published: 02 December 2009
PARENTS want the State to decide if certain bishops should remain as patrons of primary schools.
At present the Catholic bishops are patrons of around 3,000 of the country's 3,200 primary schools. Some of them were criticised in last week's Murphy report for not doing enough in relation to allegations of abuse when they were auxiliary bishops in the Dublin diocese.
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