Ireland blasts papal diplomat's refusal to testify
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Irish lawmakers have denounced the refusal of Pope Benedict's diplomat in Ireland to testify to a parliamentary panel probing the level of Catholic Church cooperation with investigations into the church's cover-up of child abuse.
The papal nuncio to Ireland, Cardinal Giuseppi Leanza, told lawmakers in a letter published Monday he would not answer questions from the parliament's foreign affairs committee. (AP)
