Cardinal Sean Brady snubbed by diocese priests - No support for Irish Primate

I think it is disgraceful and also an act of disobedience against God by ostracising Cardinal Brady. Whatever they feel or do not feel they need to get behind their leader and support him. They are doing the devil's work and not God's. I will continue to pray to Our Blessed Mother for Cardinal Brady to help him - what can be worse than be persecuted by your own men!! I can't imagine what Our Lord will say to these so-called "priests" when he meets them. God Bless You Cardinal Brady - I hate bullies.

Just atnoehr in the endless list of horrible crimes by the church - that alsos includes the promotion of Dolan to cardinal...... Dolan btw cooked the books in Milwaukee (put the money in funeral / cemetary trusts0 then had his dicocese declare bankruptcy......to prevent paying off and really admitting the endless abuse of children M and F in his care............the whole arrogant church except for some cowed into silence good people is a blight on the western world and looks every day more like Islam where child abuse is a way of life and a part of growing up in that male dominated monster

he should be arrested and jailed for aiding and abetting child rapists. It is that simple,

Like many people, I had a very good Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic upbringing. Like them, it took me a lifetime to get over it. Yet, a lot of what masquerades as objective journalism is in fact a orchestrated campaign by hidden agendists who lurk among the shadows. Since metaphysics abhors a vacuum too, with what demon will we replace the HRC&AC to prevent seven others moving in?

He has to go.

This is the best news out of Ireland, that Cardinal Brady is losing the support from his ouw flock of priests. Now, maybe he'll either step down or resign. But I bet you money, the Vatican will hide him in the Pope's bedroom like they did to Cardinal Law of Boston.

philib04 The catholic church is an embarrassment to the catholic church as it goes right to the top. They all embarrass the catholic faith.

Philib04. He should resign my ass, he should be jailed and serve his time in with the peados.

correction: jacersagain, we call your excuse the Sandusky Principle.

jacers, I said that Lt. Calley's soldiers followed his order even though he ordered a massacre with no military purpose. They refused to think beyond the authority that the code gave Calley and the duty it gave them to obey him. There's a kind of bewitchment at work in our deference to authority figures. Cardinal Brady, like Calley's men, deferred to authority when he should have acted autonomously (why do we have a God-given free will and conscience? To behave like puppets of powerful puppeteers?). Harming civilians is wrong, as those soldiers knew, yet it's a recurring barbarity of war, perhaps of any situation with a hierarchy of power. In the "Iliad," Homer describes Achille's desecration of the body of Hector (it was not his only barbarity, but a clear-cut case of primordial destructiveness unleashed by military discipline). None of Colley's soldiers was convicted of a crime, and Calley served only a few years in prison for the murders. Similarly, the impulse to protect the institution, though children were severely harmed, overwhelmed or silenced Brady's conscience; no one will indict him because people have such awe for authority! Why are you arguing the same moral relativism as hermitT when such a "context" gives no excuse? Same bewitchment I'd guess.

jacersagain, we your excuse the Sandusky Principle. Glad you can live with rapists in our Church leadership. I can't and won't. These men are disgusting! Law, Brady, Levada, they are all thug-cardinals. They all belong in jail. Law and Levada hide out in the Vatican. Presumably Brady will be joining them soon.

Jaceragain. Brady and others have gone to great lengths in more recent times to insure most of what went on would never see the light of day. Never mind the father having to sit outside the room all those years ago. The victims have been further abused, by their denial in any talking shops set up to deal with the issue at hand. Bradys hands are as dirty as a coalmans.

seamus, what you leave out is how morally wrong it is for a bishop to hide a priest-child rapist! Brady should resign, he is an embarrassment to the Catholic Church. Of course the same is true for perhaps hundreds of other bishops.

Hermit talker. It was as moraly wrong in 1973 to rape a child as it is now. Regardless of cannon or any other law Bradys own moral compass should have shone through. As it clearly did not ,he was hardly fit for purpose of priesthood. His more recent antics have hardly gave his credability as a Cardinal anymore purpose. You are 100% about some who now lamblast the Cardinal having covered up the same. They do this in the comfort of a crazy mans myth that should they be treated the same as others a certain peace process could or would collaspse. As the Cardinal they are only men and should be treated the same or we are all hypocrits.

ciaradexy - your post is all over the place. I saw that TV programme a few weeks ago. The man said that the abusing priest said Mass knowing that he abused children in a room behind the altar. Cardinal Brady never said Mass in that Donegal church knowing about the abuse. Never. Do not post lies, please; be sure of your facts first.