THE future leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said he was disappointed by Enda Kenny's description of himself as "a Taoiseach who happens to be a Catholic and not a Catholic Taoiseach".
Speaking on BBC Ulster's
'Sunday Sequence' radio programme, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh said the Taoiseach's words seemed to suggest that you could
not be a Catholic and a politician and carry your faith-based views at
the same time as your views, needs and responsibilities as a politician.In a wide-ranging interview, he hit out at attempts to marginalise the church and defended the church's right to make its views known on issues such as abortion.
Speaking at St Oliver Plunkett Church in West Belfast last night, Archbishop Martin said that there were those who wanted the "voice of faith and religion relegated to the privacy of our homes and churches".