Dublin investigation: Vatican tried to stop pedophile Irish priest from being defrocked
DUBLIN - A previously censored chapter from Ireland's investigation into church coverups of child abuse says the Vatican tried to stop Irish church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest.
The chapter, released Friday, details how Dublin leaders ordered Catholic priest Tony Walsh defrocked in 1993 following 15 years of child-abuse complaints. But the Vatican overruled the verdict and ordered him sent to an Irish monastery instead.
Rome relented in 1996 after police opened a criminal probe and Walsh attacked a boy in a pub restroom following a family funeral.
Walsh was imprisoned for raping boys last week.
The Dublin Archdiocese investigation, published last year, found that Catholic officials shielded dozens of priests from prosecution for decades.
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