The Telegraph (British) website reports today (July 29, 2011) that Vatican officials have accused Enda Kenny -- Ireland's prime minister -- of diverting attention away from the Irish euro crisis by attacking the Roman Catholic Church over its covering up of sex abuse by priests.
Giuseppe Leanza -- the Vatican's envoy to Ireland -- was posted to Prague, the Czech Republic today, just a few days after he was recalled to Rome amid a row between the Vatican and the Irish government over the sexual abuse of children by priests.
A report into the Irish diocese of Cloyne earlier this month criticized how the church handled hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of children by priests going back over decades.
The findings shocked Ireland -- a deeply Catholic country -- and prompted Mr. Kenny to launch an unprecedented attack on "dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, and narcissism" at the Vatican.
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