Pressure On Irish Cardinal Sean Brady To Resign Over Child Abuse

2:43 am EST March 16th, 2010 | News | 13 Comments

USA, Germany, Switzerland, and Ireland. It just doesn’t stop.

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland is facing further pressure to resign after he admitted knowing about the sexual abuse of two children.
Cardinal Sean Brady has said he was at meetings in 1975 where two abused children signed vows of silence over complaints against Fr Brendan Smyth.

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13 Responses to “Pressure On Irish Cardinal Sean Brady To Resign Over Child Abuse”

  1. News Media says:
    March 16, 2010 at 3:48 am

    I’m sorry, but a shadowy, powerful, planet-wide organization of child rapists hardly rises to the level of News.

  2. Boronx says:
    March 16, 2010 at 3:49 am

    Anyone have any reason why Sean Brady should not go to prison?

  3. Repack Rider says:
    March 16, 2010 at 3:59 am

    Anyone have any reason why Sean Brady should not go to prison?

    Because he is closer to God than you and I are, and God told him to do it.

    Why would you question God?

  4. Jaim says:
    March 16, 2010 at 4:12 am

    It’s Boston all over again.

    House of cards.

  5. White Whale says:
    March 16, 2010 at 7:34 am

    I used to be a practicing Catholic but like they say in Dogma, the church worships God like he is dead. This boils down to celibacy and the church not turning a blind eye to perverts to keep the dwindling clergy numbers up.

  6. Matthew Hubbard says:
    March 16, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Let should let the nuns run the place. They may be mean, but at least there isn’t an epidemic of nuns having sex with little boys.

  7. Steve Rogers says:
    March 16, 2010 at 10:38 am

    Implement your solution, and then give it time.

  8. Connie says:
    March 16, 2010 at 11:09 am

    He should go to prison. Ireland was notorious for abuse from Priests and Nuns particularly at the “reformatory” schools for girls.

    Interesting how every Catholic in political office hasn’t had their morality put into question the same way that Barack Obama’s character was because he attended Rev. Wright’s Church, by the media and Republican politicians. As I’ve stated many times on this blog I’m a Catholic, nonetheless the double standard regarding how media handles the “Black Church” and a church that is widely identified as European, is stark. (Having said that, I am aware that the majority of practicing Catholics are in South America and African countries, but that is not how Americans view Catholics.)

    There is no way that I believe that Catholics that hold political office are amoral just because they attend a Catholic Church…….but I’m just sayin’……why the double standard……or do I need to even ask?

  9. Quaker in a Basement says:
    March 16, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    Wait. Vow of silence??

    OK, that’s just evil.

  10. justadood says:
    March 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    USA, Getmany, Switzerland, Ireland….don’t throw out Philippines either…

    There’ve been published reports of abuse during the time of Jaime Cardinal Sin (15-20 years ago), and I saw nothing to suggest to me that things might have changed since then.

    Anywhere the Church is gifted with political power, they take advantage of it and abuse, then hide the abuse…. Keep an ear out for Latin America—I’ve already read things from Mexico, and would on more coming to light in South America….

  11. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 16, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Cardinal Brady said he believed the victims and in his limited role did all he could
    …
    He added that as a relatively junior cleric it was not his responsibility to report Smyth to the police
    …
    Monsignor Dooley said that as Fr Brady had been conducting in-camera investigation within the Church, he would have been violating his responsibilities if he had reported what he knew to the police.

    I’d like someone to actually defend the idea that reporting a crime, especially a particularly henious crime against children, is something Catholics should be opposed to as a matter of policy.

    I’d like any Christian of any stripe to defend the idea that a priest’s responsibilities don’t include doing everything possible to end such abuse.

    If you are aware of abuse, you are duty bound to stop it. If you report it and it hasn’t stopped, then your job is not done. Is there any argument that could be made against that?

    It’s not like there is any lack of historic examples of Catholics and Christians defying established authority to do what is actually right. (Certainly is an utter lack of modern ones…)

  12. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 17, 2010 at 11:52 am

    Anyone? Anyone? Beuhler? Frank? Anyone?

  13. PTCruiser says:
    March 17, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    @Quaker in a Basement

    Yep, I thought the same thing. In fact, I suspect that the only kind of folks who would pressure children to make a vow of silence are folks who are guilty of the same sort of behavior.