"Evil and poison has been excised" - 'Bundoran's' new Bishop
The new Bishop of Clogher, Bundoran-native, Most Rev Dr Liam McDaid, said the church had been brought to its knees by the revelations of clerical abuse, adding that it was "perhaps not a bad thing" that this had happened.
Hundreds of people from Bundoran in particular and south Donegal joined dignitaries from across the island at the investiture ceremony in St. Macartan's Cathedral on Sunday.
"Society has forced us in the Irish Church to look into the mirror and what we saw were weakness and failure, victims and abuse.
"The surgeon's knife has been painful but necessary. A lot of evil and poison has been excised. There comes a time when the surgeon's knife has done what it can, is put away and a regime of rehabilitation for the patient is put in place.
"We have been brought to our knees but maybe that is no bad thing," he said.
Bishop McDaid said society was rightly checking that the church is sincere in its intentions and efforts towards rehabilitation.
The 65-year-old Bishop McDaid who just celebrated his birthday last week was ordained by Cardinal Sean Brady assisted by the outgoing Bishop Joe Duffy, and local-man from Tyholland, Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor diocese.
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