The Pope faces abuse during his visit to Ireland, according to the Archbishop

The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin said that it is important that Pope Francis addresses the issue of abuse when he goes to Ireland later this year.

In an interview on RTÉ Radio 1's Marian Finucane show on Saturday, Dr. Diarmuid Martin said: "It is important, I believe, that he does it [Pope Francis] because the wounds are there and that new wounds appear.

"If I had asked for it two years ago, I would have talked about institutions and abuse by the clergy. . . Now they are the Magdalenian laundries and mother and baby houses and a whole series of other places [where issues are emerging].

The Archbishop also clarified his comments regarding the direction of prayers of Minister of Culture Josepha Madigan in a church in Dublin last month.

Dr. Martin stated that he had never stated that Ms. Madigan would not have had to highlight her grievances with the Catholic Church in public. He said that what he was opposed to was to link Ms. Madigan's personal grievances with the Church to a priest who did not show up at Mbad where she ended up praying.

Ms. Madigan, who led the Fine Gael campaign in the May referendum, led the prayer service at her local church in Mount Merrion on Saturday, June 23

In the midst of the fallout after the service, the Minister said it was not his fault if a priest was not available for Saturday Mbad. She said some of the media reactions to this event were "amazing." "There is a shortage of priests, but if we think that the shortage of priests concerns Sunday Mbades, then you make priests a mbad machine," he said

. ] "Use an Opportunity"

T The Archbishop stated that he had "no problem" with Ms. Madigan's statement that there was a shortage of priests, but that connecting this to the event in his local church was "using an opportunity".

Ms. Finucane with Ms. Madigan saying that there should be married priests and priests, Dr. Martin said that he never criticized her for her opinions.

"I have never complained either, I have simply said that to link all this to an event in one day, was to use the opportunity to do something else Some of the comments in the newspapers were incredible … There were people saying, how could he say something like that? Then they went to say things I never said.

Take the other incident and build it, that's what I did not like. "

Dr. Martin said that there was" great interest "in the Pope's visit, "from a broad sample of society", with all 500,000 tickets for the event of the Phoenix Park's reserved pontiff.