Meanwhile, Italy's
referendum this upcoming Sunday threatens — if
Italians reject the reform proposals — to set in motion a chain of events that could
result in that country leaving the Eurozone.
Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his
referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were
Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.