Irish Catholic Cardinal Brady: Everyone was doing it...
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said this week that he will only resign if he's personally asked to by the Pope. In Ireland increasing calls for his resignation have come amid allegations that he attended meetings were children were asked to sign vows of silence over the abuse they had suffered.The Primate of All Ireland admitted that he attended meetings in 1975 when two boys signed oaths of silence while testifying in a Church inquiry against Father Brendan Smyth. In his defense Brady claimed that wider society handled child abuse cases differently in the 1970's. "There was a culture of silence about this, a culture of secrecy, that's the way society dealt with it."
There you have it. Everyone was doing it. What a defense that is. But what Brendan Smyth was doing was not only immoral and sinful, it was a crime. The refusal to hand him over to the authorities allowed Smyth to continue to do for two more decades. It's astounding that Brady still shrugs about this.
"I did act, and act effectively, in that inquiry to produce the grounds for removing Father Smyth from ministry and specifically it was underlined that he was not to hear confessions and that was very important," Brady said. He added that he would not be resigning because he had done nothing wrong.
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Mayolady | Apr 02, 2010, 08:27 PM EDT
If he really loved the Catholic Church and wanted to do what was best for the common good, he would resign without being asked. His own actions testify to his priorities---himself and his importance.
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Mayolady | Apr 02, 2010, 08:24 PM EDT
This Cardinal is like many bishops and cardinals in the United States. He is arrogant and self-righteous, not humble, not a servant, not living according to the golden rule. Authoritarian, they want to be above the law of man and God. The red coated guys in the fancy jewels need to follow the rule of St. Francis. Even in the US they want to tell us what to think and how to vote. They are undermining the church and are not an example of Christian ideals.
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