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cover-up has gone on for centuries, not just in the church … It's going on today in families, in communities, in societies. Why are you singling out the church?” he asked. Bishop Jones was a member of the
Bishops' Liaison Committee for Child Protection and was speaking at a press conference in Maynooth on 10 March 2010 where the
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as "an extraordinary and far-reaching attack on freedom of conscience and the free practices of religion – which are guaranteed to every citizen under the
Constitution". On the refusal by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern to allow an opt-out clause for people who had issues of conscience when it came
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reports into child abuse under church authorities in 2009, Jones accused the media of being "unfair and unjust" to the
Catholic Church through a concentration on the handling by church authorities of the clerical child sex-abuse issue. "Could I just say with all this emphasis on cover-up, the
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family, Nan Ward. The bishop spoke about a meeting he attended in 1968 to improve the educational opportunities for
Travellers. During these years he was also Vocations Director for the Diocese of Elphin.
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In retirement Jones retained a relatively low profile in his former diocese although his July 2015 comments about the future economic prospects for the West of
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for seven years during the period investigated by the Murphy
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An insight into this work was revealed in 2012 when he presided over, and preached, at the funeral of the matriarch of an important
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to association or involvement with same-sex ceremonies, he said the bishops were "very worried about that. Very worried".
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