I would suspect that O'Connell is very closed church, never happened, God will cry in his approach. What impression I get of him indirectly is supercillious and divine right of bishops. Martin seems to be more open and has come across as accepting of the failings of the church, and, more importantly, seeing the need to seek forgiveness and reconciliation. He does seem to want to tackle the past. That won't sit easy with a man who may have been happy to neglect to deal properly with problems when he was in the post.
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