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Three more Irish Bishops expected to offer resignation over child sex abuse scandal

Tension flares as Bishops contradict each other

By
Donal Thornton,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Thursday, December 24, 2009, 7:37 AM
Updated Thursday, December 24, 2009, 1:24 PM

 

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More bishops' heads set to roll over child sex abuse scandal

Three more Bishops are under pressure to resign after Bishop James Moriarty offered his resignation to Pope Benedict on Wednesday. The three bishops in question were severely criticized in the Murphy report for taking no action against the pedophiles priests who took advantage of the most vulnerable in their congregation.

It has also become evident in recent days that there is massive tension between the remaining bishops under scrutiny and the Archbishop of Dubin, Desmond Martin who has publicly clashed with them.

The current Dublin Auxiliary Bishops Eamonn Walsh, and Bishop Ray Field and Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan were appointed to their positions in the 19990's. The Murphy report found that they covered up evidence of sexual abuse by pedophile priests and failed to help the victims of the abuse.

Last night Archbishop Diarmuid Martin issued a statement outlining his position on the situation. An earlier statement from Bishop Walsh said that Archbishop Martin supported the remaining auxiliary Bishops. He supposedly said so at a meeting with the clergy of the Archdiocese in the Citywest on December 12th.

 However Archbishop Martin denied that he gave full support to the Bishops in question. A spokesperson for the Archbishop told the Irish Times that, "When asked at the Citywest gathering of priests if he had confidence in his priests and auxiliary bishops, he replied that he had confidence in the ministry they were carrying out."

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Posted by ThomasCoolberth on Dec 26, 2009, 06:02 PM EST
These Bishops/Cardinals love their jobs a little too much. For the haters of "pomp and ceremony", there are 26,000 different "christian" sects ... go pick one and don't let the door hit you on the arse as you leave the Catholic Church.
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Posted by Lillith on Dec 25, 2009, 08:00 PM EST
Great news.Not before time either.
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Posted by Portia777 on Dec 25, 2009, 03:29 PM EST
Good. Next one to go is the pope and all that patriarchal pomp and ceremony.
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Posted by joechia on Dec 25, 2009, 06:16 AM EST
Mother Mary had said , " my Immaculate Heart will triumph". Praise the Lord that the wolfs are now made visible and are evicted from the Church. Catholics in Ireland should not grieve but rejoice that the "Smoke of Satan" that has entered the Church is being cleansed from it. Jesus has said, "My Church will not be destroyed".
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Posted by ceciliag on Dec 24, 2009, 06:25 PM EST
Good! Glad to hear so many leaders of the Catholic Church who enabled the sexual butchery of thousands of Catholic Children & Young People are resigning. Now if we could only get rid of all those other criminally negligent, cowardly enabling bishops around the world; along with that most powerful of all clergy enablers (Pope Ratzinger) to resign, we could begin to clean up the filth that has made Our Church the laughing stock in the eyes of humanity and offensive to Almighty GOD.
 


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