Brendan Smyth must undoubtably be the most evil Irishman that has lived in the last 100 years and maybe ever. The actions of one man have and continue to scar our society.

According to the English Times, the Catholic Church has even lied to the British Police and well as possibly our own Garda as to even if they held inquiries: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/News/article1032698.ece#standard-comments

Quote:

Oliver McShane, a former Dominican priest who attended the church inquiry in Dundalk, has told The Sunday Times that church officials told gardai in 1991 that no such inquiry had taken place.

“In 1991, gardai in Dundalk asked the London Metropolitan police’s child protection unit to take a statement from me,” said McShane, who has now left the priesthood and lives abroad. “I told them about the inquiry as part of my statement.

“The detective heading the inquiry in Dundalk rang me a couple of months later saying the church was denying the inquiry happened. I said I would come over to Ireland and swear on the Bible it did,” said McShane, who was the priest in whom Boland confided about Smyth’s abuse and who accompanied the boy when he informed his parents about what he had suffered.

End Quote.

There you have it.
An absolute no moral, two faced org that has no moral authority in Ireland any more to preach to us – when in fact they are just as bad, if not worse!
No wonder they are backing Brady now. Birds of a feather are sticking together!

It time to cut Rome adrift the holy see is a joke we should go like the Greek orthodox and make our version of Christianity like before 1169 untethered where priests marry and can relate to normal society

@Jeannie Guzman,

It’s best if you call them Smyth and O’Grady. They don’t deserve to be called ‘father’. Rotten, rotten evil savages.

the comment that the current state affair is made up of ‘bits and pieces’ would be laughable if it was not part of such a cynical tactic

a smoke screen (and a complete insult to all the victims who, i am sure, are not talking about ‘bits and pieces’ and, if they are, are doing this in the context of all the other ‘bits and pieces’ that the church seem so unwilling to add to)

ironically, the church doesn’t appear to realise that if the whole thing is, as they call it, ‘bits and pieces’ then they might be the main benefciaires of this

brady has to go first. then decide what to do next

And when the independent inquiry is finished if Brady is still alive and in his post, why not have a tribunal? Hell let’s just drag it out as long as humanly possible until all involved have gone to their graves unpunished and unrepentant? The Catholic Church might be firm believers in eternal damnation and pits of fire and torment, but I prefer my justice to be tangable, credible and timely.

Father Brendan Smyth abused, molested, raped and sodomized children in the United States and in Ireland. He was one of the most notorious Pedophile Priests of all times! I have often wondered if priests like Fr. Brendan Smyth and Fr. Oliver O’Grady were in the Church’s unofficial, “Pedophile Priests WITHOUT Borders Program,” where they were knowingly transferred between Ireland and the United States!

Diarmuid Martin is calling for an independent enquiry! Who’s paying for it, the Vatican, because I’m damn well not paying for it! We all know the facts of what happened to these children, many, many children and a lot that have not come out yet and may never.

The vatican should just hold up their hands and pay out for what they owe. Then at least, some of the money could go towards paying for counciling these poor adults that have lived this disgusting secret for so long. The vatican should be told to sell some of its art, gold etc. they’ve enough of it!

How many reports have revealed top to bottom collusion to protect clerical child rapists? Predators like Smith could not have inflicted so much harm if they weren’t operating in an environment that permitted them to thrive. The institution is at least as culpable as the individual predators. Yet, the government is afraid to face down Roman Catholic interests in the education sector. Blind faith that this time is different or recklessness?

Who will pay for ANOTHER inquiry ?

Fianna Fail protected Brendan Smith

Another inquiry will not help anyone. This is just Archbishop trying to show that he is on the side of the people.

Raymelody: Your dream of a Church in Ireland, unencumbered by the rule of Rome, may well come true in your lifetime. Tomorrow, I understand that members of the Laity and the Association of Catholic Priests will meet in Dublin to discuss their vision of the Church. If the Vatican is intelligent, and I haven’t heard that accusation made in recent history, the Vatican will tacitly go along with the Church in Ireland, so as not to lose them all together! Ireland will probably end up with 2 distinct Catholic Churches: One will hold 100% allegiance to Rome and the other will go back to the fundamentals of Christianity and may well turn out like the Early Church, found in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, which the Vatican has never wanted us to read!

Too little too late by these out of touch DINOSAURS

And so the news has gone silent on Brady. And so it shall remain. Report followed by report followed by outrage and anger followed by not very much at all.

THE COUNTRY CANT AFFORD AN OTHER INQUIRY,THERE IS TO MUCH COVER UP IN THE CHURCH SO THERE IS NO POINT,AND IAM NOT TAKING AWAY FROM THE CHILDREN THAT THE CLERGY ABUSED