[...] Judge Yvonne Murphy, who carried out a devastating report into clerical
sexual abuse within the Dublin Archdiocese, revealed her investigation received
no co-operation from the Vatican or its Irish diplomatic representative despite
a number of requests.
The report said that in September 2006, the commission wrote to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith seeking information on reports of clerical child sex abuse sent to it by the Dublin Archdiocese over a 30-year period. It also sought information on the document ‘Crimen Sollicitationis’, which deals with clerical sex abuse. The congregation did not reply.
It then wrote to the papal nuncio in Dublin in February 2007 requesting that he forward documents in his possession relevant to the commission’s terms of reference. The papal nuncio did not reply.
Earlier this year the commission again wrote to the papal nuncio enclosing extracts from its draft report which referred to him and his office, as it was required to do. Again, there was no reply.[...]
01/12/2009 Brian Cowen tonight defended the Vatican’s refusal to deal directly with an investigation into paedophile priests in the Dublin diocese that has shocked the country.
The Taoiseach insisted Rome’s effective snub of Judge Yvonne Murphy’s inquiry was in keeping with international law concerning diplomatic channels.
01/12/2009 The Papal Nuncio in Ireland is defending his decision not to respond to a draft report from the Commission of investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
Speaking to the Irish Times, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza said he did not respond because he was asked for comments on extracts which related to a time before he took over as Papal Nuncio.
December 2, 2009 Call for expulsion of papal nuncio THE PAPAL nuncio should be expelled if he could not give a reason for the contempt with which he had treated the Murphy commission’s calls for information, Ivana Bacik (Lab) said.
Joe O’Toole (Ind) said the Vatican state ambassador should be called in by the Minister for Foreign Affairs “in order to explain himself on this situation”. Ms Bacik said the Minister had already expressed doubts about the nuncio’s behaviour. He should now call him in and expel him if he could not provide an explanation.
There had been reports that the Catholic Church was lobbying against the Civil Partnership Bill, which was about to be debated by the Dáil.
...The Vatican should apologise for failing to co-operate with an inquiry into sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, a Dublin bishop has said.
Auxiliary Bishop Eamonn Walsh made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg news service on Friday.
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The Vatican said the requests had not come through "appropriate diplomatic channels."
However, Bishop Walsh told Bloomberg he was disappointed and surprised by the Vatican's attitude. 
He said that the Vatican should have shown "courtesy and cooperation" and added, "If it were me, I would apologise."
He told the news service he was speaking in a personal capacity.
[...]
Wednesday December 09 2009 Papal Nuncio says sorry for Vatican's 'mistakes'
THE Government yesterday demanded that the Vatican co-operate fully with the Murphy commission's ongoing investigations into paedophile priests in the Archdiocese of Dublin and the diocese of Cloyne.
The ultimatum was put directly by Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin at a dramatic 45-minute meeting yesterday in Iveagh House, Dublin with the Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza.
An apologetic Archbishop Leanza afterwards said there was no intention on the part of the Vatican not to co-operate with the commission, and he expressed his "shock and dismay" at the Murphy report's findings into the systematic cover-up by four successive archbishops of Dublin of complaints of abuse by paedophile priests.
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"If there was any mistake from our side, we also apologise for this. But certainly there was no intention not to co-operate with the commission," added Archbishop Leanza.
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