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It appears that there are still people living in the dark ages in this country. I’ve always known it — but now it has been confirmed.

Just last Friday Kilkenny made history when the Church of Ireland installed the first ever female Dean of Ossory at St Canice’s Cathedral. The Very Rev Katharine Poulton now holds the prestigious position and resides here in Kilkenny at the deanery. It was a big day for the COI community and the ceremony was fittingly prestigious.

Educate Together has welcomed the statement by Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills Mary Coughlan at last week’s Dáil debate on school patronage.

The Irish Medical Council has investigated a complaint made by a couple that a doctor, who runs a fertility clinic in Galway, refused to treat them because they were not married.

The revelations this week that Cardinal Sean Brady sat in on and conducted interviews with traumatised victims of child rape, believed their story to be true and failed in his moral, Christian and legal duty to inform the gardai, is a true indicator of the extent of the level of denial that exists in the Catholic Church regarding the culture of secrecy.

THE POEMS Gerard Manley Hopkins left us when he died in 1889, have a stylish gloom which makes him strangely representative of the more thoughtful type of Roman Catholic.

Once again the Catholic church has disappointed and this week’s Vatican visit by our bishops has proven to have been a ball of white smoke to sufferers of clerical abuse.

Abuse victims are hurting again this week at the apparent disregard of the Vatican for their suffering at the hands of paedophile priests and religious over decades in Ireland. While they may have been naive in thinking that the Church would change the habits of a lifetime and stage some sort of public lynching, the lack of any obvious compassion or regret by the world’s senior churchman has struck a sour note, not only in the minds of victims, but among all those who were viewing this meeting as a turning point for the Church.

The Bishop of Galway returned home yesterday to criticisms that the two-day summit between his fellow bishops and the Pope at the Vatican had been a wasted opportunity for the Church to take responsibility for presiding over a culture of cover-up.

Pictured at the launch of the Heritage Council’s, ‘Significant Places of Public Worship Grant’ for St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny are, Trevor Stacey from the Representative Church Body of the Church of Ireland; Michael Starrett, chief executive of the Heritage Council; and Fr Paddy Jones of the Catholic Church’s Sacred Art and Architecture Committee.