The Irish Human Rights Commission and those dismissive of religious belief and the Catholic ethos in schools were forcefully criticised at yesterday’s hearing of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector at the Department of Education in Dublin.

“There is a temptation in contemporary Irish discourse to dismiss religious belief as inherently irrational, divisive and anti-intellectual. Some go so far as to say that schools with a Catholic ethos cannot create a sense of civic virtue,” said Fr Michael Drumm, chairman of the Catholic Schools Partnership.

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