Type | Cardinal |
---|---|
Honorific-prefix | His Eminence |
Name | Desmond Connell |
Title | Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin |
See | Dublin |
Ordination | 19 May 1951 (Priest) |
Consecration | 6 March 1988 (Archbishop) |
Cardinal | 21 February 2001 |
Rank | Cardinal priest of S. Silvestri in Capite |
Birth date | March 24, 1926 |
Birth place | Phibsboro, Dublin, Ireland |
Religion | Roman Catholic Church |
Desmond Connell (born 24 March 1926) is a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He is a former Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He was born in Dublin.
Connell is one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin.
He then returned to Ireland, and took up a teaching post at the Department of Metaphysics in University College Dublin, where he was to enjoy a distinguished career. He was appointed Professor of General Metaphysics in 1972 and in 1983 became the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology. In 1981 he was awarded a D.Litt. by the National University of Ireland. The College's Department of Metaphysics was abolished after Connell left it and merged into other departments.
Type | Cardinal |
---|---|
Honorific-prefix | His Eminence |
Name | Desmond Connell |
Title | Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland |
See | Dublin |
Enthroned | 21 January 1988 (appointed) |
Ended | 26 April 2004 (retired) |
Predecessor | Kevin McNamara |
Successor | Diarmuid Martin |
From 1988 Connell had also continued to insure his archdiocese against liability from complainants, while claiming to the Murphy Commission that the archdiocese was "on a learning curve" in regard to child abuse. He arranged for compensation payments to be made from a "Stewardship Trust" that was kept secret from the archdiocese's parishioners until 2003.
In 1996 Connell refused to help a victim of Paul McGennis and did not pass on what he knew about McGennis to her, or to the police. He apologised for this in 2002.
In 2005 the prospect of Connell giving evidence to the Murphy Commission was notable in itself, according to the National Catholic Reporter: "The 79-year-old cardinal will be rigorously questioned on his handling of complaints when he was archbishop of Dublin from 1998 until his retirement last year. Never before has an Irish prince of the Roman Catholic church found himself hauled before a state inquiry into the management of the country's largest diocese."
Connell had been a supporter of the Holy Office's declaration Dominus Iesus in 2000, applauding its opposition to relativism.
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