Vatican row over sex abuse scandal reveals emergence of a new Ireland

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now more secular and tolerant, say the activists as "captured the anger of a generation", Enda Kenny, speaking of

Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has dared to attack the Vatican's role in the concealment of alleged child abuse, a row erupted unprecedented Catholic Church and the Irish state, with recalling its ambassador to Rome Dublin, and a priest, even compared to Adolf Hitler Kenny.

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But Kenny last week has also earned thousands of letters of support, and revealed that - after centuries of the Catholic Church was a dominant force in Irish society - the influence of Rome reduced, leaving a country that is now more tolerant and secular than any other time in its history.

"It was a monumental moment. He was a man who is a practicing Catholic, and yet was willing to say these things," said Ciara McGrattan, deputy director of news from the gay community.

Even the country's leading Catholic newspaper praised speech Kenny, who accused the church hierarchy to minimize the rape and torture of children to respect the power of the church. In an editorial, the Irish Catholic Church, said Kenny had "captured the anger of a generation", and describes the hierarchy of the Church as "arrogant and authoritarian."

Not everyone agrees: an Irish priest who wrote the last European leader to issue a scathing attack against a pope. "Was the ruthless German dictator Adolf Hitler" Father Thomas Daly been forced to apologize for the remark, made in a pamphlet entitled "Heil said Kenny."

Vatican officials believe that the church has been unfairly attacked, perhaps for political reasons. A senior official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ireland was involved in the crisis of the euro and suggested that Kenny might have tried to distract public opinion.

Others stressed that the response of the Holy See, which was promised for late August, will attempt to bridge the gap. But the signs were this week also include a vigorous defense of the Vatican's position.

• In Dublin gays and secular activists said the comments reflected a new Kenny Ireland, where attitudes toward the Church and its influence on everyday life have suffered in silence for a dramatic change in the last decade .
• Until 1993 homosexuality was still illegal, but according to McGrattan, conditions of homosexuals have improved considerably over the last 10 years.
"There was a movement in all areas, including in schools - including more than 90% are controlled by the Catholic Church -. Where talk about being gay is not prohibited or simply ignore groups of young gays are even schools to talk about homophobic bullying. This is real progress. "

This tolerance is measured in a number of opinion polls showing the current openly gay Senator David Norris of Ireland as a favorite of people from becoming the next president of Ireland, while the country elect a new Head of State in the fall.

walking through the center of Dublin with a rainbow flag of gay rights scratches across his shoulder, Richy Handlebar Smith said he admired Kenny's position - especially with the right Irish Prime Minister Gael party was once one of the most ardent defenders of the Catholic Church temporal power.

"What about the Vatican said was an unusual language for a prime minister - but especially an Irish prime minister and one who is himself a Catholic could have been a surprise, but it was on behalf of the land, saying. it, "he said. "We are far behind him, as we have a lot of anger at the Vatican on the kinds of horrible things they said about homosexuals."
Mick Nugent, satirist and defender of secularism, atheism, said were among the fastest growing minority in Ireland. In 1981, only 39,000 people marked the "no religion" box in the national census, in the last survey in 2006, this figure rose to 180,000, and Nugent estimates that the real figure could be higher than a quarter of a million.

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