Vatican to axe Cardinal Sean Brady as Primate of All Ireland

glengesh – read my last post please. Get it RIGHT before you post. Sexual abuse was NOT EVER committed by the Roman Catholic Church per se ANYWHERE. It was committed by a very, very few MEMBERS of the Church, somewhere between 2 and 4% of ALL billion-plus members. HOW DARE YOU tar the whole church with your lies and suppositions! Have you attacked the 2% members of your own local community’s neighbourhood with the same venom? No? Please do, and please name and shame them.

When Sir Anthony Hart hands over his report on the investigation into child sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in Northern Ireland it will send that organisation reeling out of Ireland for good. Make no misstake about it, the sheer depravity of that church will leave the population in dismay and horror. Brady has been revealed but behind him in hideing are many more who have every reason to sleep uneasy in their beds. This includes not only cardinals and bishops and priests but nuns and lay catholics. Meanwhile Brady should be before the courts.

Get facts right before you print a word of a lie. The Vatican is most definitely NOT going to axe Dr. Brady. Dr. Brady is due to retire in 2014.His retirement and new replacement is normal procedure for the Vatican’s re-organisation after his retirement. Most media people have no sense of proper accurate reporting and frequently juxtapose their own choice words against the facts which are usually limited to a one-line paragraph while the rest of their reports concentrate on changing the agenda of the facts. Facts: 1. Like any organisation, Vatican preparations are made to appoint a replacement of any retiring Bishop or Cardinal well in advance. 2. That process has been underway since 2010, instigated by Cardinal Brady himself as is his duty as Cardinal Primate of All-Ireland. 3. Dr. Brady absolutely refused to be bullied by one Media interviewer after another into admitting to something he didn’t do wrongly, quite rightly rebuffing leading questions vociferously, with dogged Media Man sent off with his tail wagging behind him, which Media Man didn’t like. Then Media Man began his own agenda of attacks, presented to us as facts of his own believing, all on false grounds. Get it right pls.

cardinal sean brady tried his best to act like an ostrich over the child sex abuse scandal of the roman catholic church , he knows it hasnt even begun in the six counties which he had the power to sort out with the victims and he refused point blank.he was continually exposed as an arch pedophile cover up lawyer, hence we have the stormont inquiry which will last four years. brady was only one of the countless number exposed covering it all up , the childrens homes and correction centres run by them will be exposed for the depravity they carried out on children, as advertised in all our local papers inviting anyone this century who was abused in anyway to come anf give the details to the n,ire inquiry, these men are members of a religious kabal that has nothing to do with the biblical god. go brady go.

Jetsnoon. Would that be the same conservative church that covered up sodomy against non consenting inocent children and the theft of new borns from mothers who obviously dissagreed with abortion.

Commentator. Who would give the same test to who ever was to carry out the one on Bradys successor. They would have us believe the buck stopped at Brady. Rotten to the core and thats a long way off Brady.

HermitTalker. The boys father wasn`t sworn to secrecy hardly exempts Brady for not acting. Anyway there has to be hundreds of people if not thousands, who either had first hand knowledge or were victims who would not have dared expose such vile incidents. The church had such a strong hold on its flock. How many children will have got a good chastizing from their parents for even implying their abuse from a man of the cloth, with all his integrity, honesty and committment to the welfare of all his flock. How many more poor parents on believing their child, have had to live with the pain they didn`t have the courage to take the church on, for fear of reprisal from their own community etc. Look what happened in West Belfast, Liam Adams was allowed to continue working with children because of who he was and the fear his victim lived under had she exposed her suffering much earlier.

Patrick, you should have more sense than to blindly lift stories from other sources, especially when these sources are spinning the facts. Cardinals are eligible to retire at 75 and a coadjutor bishop is normally appointed 18 months prior to a cardinals retirement. This is the case with Brady. The line taken by Garry O'Sullivan in the Irish Independent that the Vatican is set to make Cardinal Sean Brady pay the price of the recent scandals surrounding him is simply not true. Lifting a story is one thing, lifting an opinion is another.

Carroll09. The article is irrelevant. As for decency, had the Brady had any he woulkd have resigned in 2010.

I hope the Vatican has the decency to subject the replacement to lie detector tests and not rely on their own records and judgement to make the decision. Oh wait a minute, why don't they get up to speed and the times appoint a nun. I wonder where Brady will go? Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan would be a great choice.

At least the Irish Independent, unlike IC, had the decency to acknowledge that Cardinal Brady himself had asked the Vatican to appoint either an auxiliary or a coadjutor bishop back in 2010. The Cardinal himself explained earlier this year that his request was put on hold pending the outcome of the Apostolic Visitation...But we wouldn't want to let such minor details get in the way of a sensationalist article.

Need a real strong conservative now....conservative Catholic Church is growing strongly in the USA.Yes, you'll lose many liberals but even Jesus has no use for them and their abortion and sodomy.

The Catholic Church is such an archaic institution with the weirdest of sex-related perversions as part of its practices & policies (whether official or not), it should just be wound up before it self-destructs. The "scandals" referred to are already decades old, but the cases happening TODAY should be dealt with today, not in 20-40-odd years time!

Did I read this wrong. Oh well, I was celebrating the Irish VICTORY over Stanford. 6-0 and no touchdowns scored against the Irish Defense in the last four games. As for Brady, the vatican will have to deal with him in prison where he belongs.

Who cares. The Vatican is irrelevant. They way they treat Catholics is sick. The mistreatement of Catholic youths by so-called priests and bishops. I hope they burn in HELL. Then all the disrespect they have piled on our Sisters! Who care about the vatican?