Disgraced Bishop Kirby refuses to resign over pedophile comments

You don't understand. Love between a man and a boy is a beautiful thing. I live in Thailand and do it everyday. It's wonderful!

The good Bishop is just repeating the Vatican line. What is the big surprise. We need to root out everyone of these bishops and cardinals who are supporting this position either publicly or privately. Bernard Law still has not been brought to trial.

Really? As a victim of priest rape and torture, I sure the hell did NOT consent to his spending the night raping and torturing me. Anyone who thinks the way this Bishop thinks need to have a full frontal lobotomy.

What is wrong with these bishops. The Anglican archbishop of Sydney made a statement recently that women should obey their husbands and that homosexuality was an illness.And that stupid Pat Robertson told a man to change his religion and beat up is wife for not obeying him. It seems to me that Robertson,Kirby and Jensen seem to have a mental illness and that disease is Religious zealotry.

Good idea, Cillowen. Why don't we bring in a bunch of drug-dealing thugs? That should sort out the problem.

He is a bishop who claims he doesn't know what a pedophile is! He is another disgrace to the church. He lives in "The Bishop's Palace" on a 100 acres of the best arable land around Loughrea. Not much of a "SHEPHERD". He keeps well away from his "SHEEP". He should have gone when the others went but hoped he wouldn't be exposed. He now has added "LIAR" to his qualifications. Just hand in the "KEYS" and crawl away. We don't care where you go. Just go. I'm sure the UNHOLY FATHER will look after you well as he has done for others of your ilk.

Their behavior is an assault on all the human senses of kindness, compassion and love.

This shows that the clergy's training in morality and their spiritual development was deficient, to say the least. What kind of church could such badly prepared clergy be running?

No one ever said bishops were smart. That being said some are smart and understand the ramifications. One smart bishop is Diamuid Martin of Dublin who seems to have been deserted by his conferees.

Kirby is "refusing to resign"??? Who would support a religion whose members cannot demand-- and get-- a discredited, dangerous, and admittedly stupid church official to step aside? If he cannot be ousted as bishop from his diocese, surely an outcry from enough people can retire him from chairing Trócaire! How can an organization that opposes sexual violence continue under the lead of a man who, with impunity, protected violent sexual predators? The silence from official Catholicism in Ireland is becoming deafening. I can hear its roar from the other side of the Atlantic.

Nineteen years after Sean Brady (now Cardinal) swore a abused children to silence, and seven years after the Irish bishops had taken out insurance to protect themselves from cases taken by abused people, Kirby found out about a priest raping a child in his diocese. He now wants us to believe that he didn't understand how serious that was. Does he think we're all utterly stupid, or is he just so used to mouthing this sort of clerical nonsense that he doesn't even realise what he's saying?

Get him "retired" so some other green pasture.