For all his ‘good intentions’ Martin is just another clerical cog in the Vatican wheel and like Rommel points out, his refusal to call on Brady to resign just shows that he is a part of the problem not the solution. He may be a decent person but he is still part of the same decrepit organisation that covered up sexual predation of minors and as we saw with the latest abuse revelations this time in the Netherlands the cover up mentality in the catholic church is not just confined to Ireland. The catholic church and people like Martin need to take action, words are cheap and so far for all the talk many of the same people are still occupying the higher echelons of the catholic church in Ireland and at it’s head is the biggest pedophile cover up merchant of them all, until Brady is sacked and until people like Martin demand he is sacked then it won’t matter what he says because it will lack any credibility and sound totally disingenuous.

Of all people you can’t accuse him of no action. He has always been active rooting out this evil.

@ Alex

Aaa… yes, so said a report that – surprise – was produced by them!
Meanwhile others outside the org espouses different.

WITHOUT Bishop Diarmuid Martin the abused would not have HAD any honesty or belief from the Church, The Government or the POPULATION Thus Gentleman has been so open and honest and at times maybe angry over the handling of child abuse and the way the Church handled or rather the non handling and hiding of evidence by them He should be hailed a hero for his work

Go and shite the lot of yee protecting this guy. Are you trying to tell me he has never come across or heard of incidents of child abuse in his years in the church. This stuff was epidemic and was ordered from the very top to cover it up.

Who cares about canon law Joe?
Get down to the parish of your birth and INSIST that you name by struck from the baptismal and conformational records of the parish. Simple.

A law they recently changed so that members can’t officially leave – because they kopped on that others was actually kopping on to their crap and wanted out!

@ John Murphy

It CANNOT be done.

@Biggins I done it!

Please explain how and under what church rules which allow it?
Many would genuinely (including myself) be interested to hear and use such rules, to do similar.

So far, the position of the Church of Rome is now – further cemented with the latest tightening of opting out rules, that no one can leave now once they are baptised.

John it is impossible to leave the church officially, your name is on their books and they will not remove it, as for cannon law I think you know where I stand on that ;-)

A change in Canon Law has no bearing on the actions or wishes of the private citizen and does not prevent you from having your name removed from church records. If the church still wants to believe you’re a Roman Catholic let them at it but the evidence of such will be struck out and the message of your disgust will have been registered in it’s place.
Here’s what I done:
I called by appointment to the priest of the parish where I grew up and demanded that my name be removed or struck from the baptismal and conformational records of the parish. I explained that I wanted this done because I was disgusted with the organization he represented, that I wanted no part of an organization that discriminated against women, discriminated against homosexuals and harboured and covered up for the vilest of sexual deviants that continued to represent his church. I handed him a letter outlining the foregoing along with requesting a letter on parish notepaper that my demands were met and that I was no longer considered a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
I personally witnessed my name being struck from the parish record and in due course I received my letter confirming my demands.
It was that simple.