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Fifth Irish Catholic bishop under pressure to resign in Church scandal

Galway prelate says report 'says nothing negative about me'

By
JANE WALSHE,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, December 26, 2009, 8:22 AM
Updated Saturday, December 26, 2009, 12:09 PM

 

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Campaigner Maeve Lewis says Bishop Drennan's departure is 'inevitable.'
Campaigner Maeve Lewis says Bishop Drennan's departure is 'inevitable.'

Fresh calls for the fifth and last remaining bishop who was named in the Murphy Commission report on child sex abuse in the Dublin archdiocese to resign have been made.

Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan is the last bishop of the five to still remain in office. He was Auxiliary Bishop in Dublin from 1997 to 2005. When the report was published, he claimed it "says nothing negative about me."

He also claims to have deep support from his flock in Galway and local radio stations have stated that calls in his favor far outweigh calls for his resignation. Local member of parliament Frank Fahey has also called on him to stay on.

However, Maeve Lewis, chief executive of the One in Four group, which represents child sex abuse survivors, has stated that Drennan must resign and said his departure is "inevitable."

Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field offered to resign in an announcement made at midnight mass in the Dublin archdiocese on Christmas Eve.

Their joint statement said they hoped their resignations would help "bring peace" to the victims of sexual abuse. Both men were still auxillary bishops of Dublin.

The Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray resigned earlier this month when the report called his actions as "inexcusable" in his dealings with a pedophile priest. .

On Wednesday Bishop James Moriarty, the Bishop of Kildare resigned.

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Posted by murphy666 on Mar 11, 2010, 10:31 PM EST
I blame the children--minuscule seducers and seductresses.
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Posted by TonydeNewYork on Dec 27, 2009, 01:23 PM EST
Lillith stop working for your daddy the devil.
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Posted by Lillith on Dec 26, 2009, 07:27 PM EST
Even when this Bishop goes, the abuse continues in secret anyway, with the HSE doing the work of the Catholic cult and the Dept of Just Us with its secret kangaroo courts also doing the very same to "disposable children" as it did for decades. As long as these depts work in secret- typical patriarchal way of keeping the truth hidden, then nothing has changed and our children are still at risk, as pedophiles work inside the system itself.
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Posted by kickstar on Dec 26, 2009, 08:40 AM EST
And with TD Frank Fahey's support one can immediatly see who the players were and still are in this child sexual abuse pandemic in Ireland, The game plays out like this: The priests abuse the little children the bishops cover it up and the TDs see that no one can challenge this wall of evil. Assholes like Frank Fahey are responsible for and are totally culpable for this abuse continuing
 


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