Excellent!

I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the catholic church are telling porkies here or twisting Bradys words. I’d put money that Brady offered to leave 2 years ago.

That’s just it, the collar shouldn’t b a protection! He should b prosecuted regardless of his position!! Nobody should be above the law

Their PR is handled from within, hence the bad job, as their PR people are of the same mindset as the clergy, they all consider they belong to a higher level of society than everyone else, they are above any law and akin to God in many ways. Just the face that Brady won’t resign is in my opinion absolute proof he believes he did no wrong.

Get over yourself and stop trying to compare the abuse of children with the outcome of civil war. It detracts from what is and should be, public outrage with the relevations of recent days.

What a ridiculous comparison, you say Brady did wrong and should resign but then you compare child abuse to a sectarian war? I’m not going to condone what they did during the troubles but they were politically motivated, what Brady did was self motivated and for his own reasons of ambition, he was well rewarded for his silence but now he has been found out for the moral coward that he is and he deserves to be sacked, arrested and charged with concealing or even being an accomplice to crimes against children. The man is a complete sham and has absolutely no moral credibility and judging by his TV performance little in the way of humanity either. What normal human being would not report child rape and abuse to the police? You need to look hard at your beloved church because it is rotten to the core and I doubt if this the end of it either.

Why stop at McGuinness and Adams? Lets remove Obama, the Queen, Nelson Mandela from public life. Maybe we should write Collins and deValera out of the history books while we’re at it.
Ridiculous comparison and almost as pathetic as the caller on radio yesterday saying Brady couldn’t report it as it wasn’t acceptable for catholics to speak to the RUC in 1975. Even Brady himself wouldn’t spin that one!
I would also point out that sadly there have been deaths in this country as an indirect result of clerical child
abuse but most if not all never made the news.

“..I’m not going to condone what they did during the troubles but they were politically motivated..”. Oh, so that’s all right then. Doesn’t matter that decisions taken by McGuinness, Adams et al resulted in men, women and children being killed and mutilated …it was politically motivated. They were part of an illegal gang who caused untold suffering and shamed this country in the eyes of the world. But, hey, it was politically motivated sot that must be OK. Sean Brady never killed anybody and yet to judge by some of the visceral hatred of all things Catholic expressed in these columns you’d think he was a monster. If you think that and don’t bat an eyelid at Adams and McGuinness then you seriously need to examine your sense of morality and basic human decency.

Hey Tertullian, this is not about the IRA, Adams or McGuinness, it was you who brought them into it with your ridiculous comparison. I have no time or sympathy for the IRA or any other terrorist gang be their motivation political or sectarian for that matter. You pathetic attempt to spin the issue as a way of deflecting the heat of Brady is not going to work, Brady may not have killed anybody indeed but their are plenty of Smyths’ victims who are dead inside, and some who have committed suicide because of him and many are after 1975 when Brady could have done something, had he done the decent thing in the first place many of these victims could have been saved their ordeal, in fact the pathetic coward stayed silent for 35 years knowing all along what a monster Smyth really was. People like you need to wake up and take the blinds off, the catholic church is all about protecting itself, it’s power and it’s wealth Brady stayed silent and was rewarded with the highest office within the catholic church in Ireland. what does that say about that organisation? You should be ashamed of yourself trying to defend such people. As for me i’m more than happy with my own morality, I know right from wrong it’s a big pity your beloved sect and the primate of all Ireland doesn’t seem to know what’s right from wrong, human decency! Those people don’t know the meaning of the word decency, your church is a sham and you know it!

I’m spinning the issue to deflect the heat from Brady? I’m trying to defend Brady? I said at the outset that he should resign so I have no idea how you reached such conclusions.

The Catholic Communications Office *does* speak for the Catholic Church though. The name may be unclear but it is the body which makes statements about issues relating to Catholicism in Ireland – outside of individuals making statements, there is no other office. It was the body which said a complaint would be made to the BAI over the recent comments by Ray Darcy, for example. And this isn’t just us using it as a synonym, by the way; the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and BreakingNews all report today’s statement as bring a statement from the Catholic Church too.

@ Almar Speaking of clarity, could you explain the synthesis where bread and wine become flesh and blood? Apparently Brady has this extraordinary power …. yet the power to stop a clergy colleague of his from raping and buggering children is beyond him!!

Resignations matter not a whit. Brady and his ilk should be breaking stones in a quarry near Letterfrack.

Almar is correct. Maynooths CCO speak on behalf of the “Irish Catholic Church” of which Sean Cardinal Brady is the “CEO”. Monseigneur Lombardy of the Vatican Communications Office speaks on behalf of the “Worldwide Catholic Church” of which the Pope is CEO! Lombardy has not denied Bradys offer of resigning in 2010!