When the Conservative forces turn on you, you should know the game is up.

I know nothing about this man, what he’s like, other than the damming and disgusting cover-ups and bullying tactics employed by him in the 70′s in relation to this. I have a theory though that he is screaming to step down but the boys in Rome are pressuring him to stay on because if he goes … where does it end? It’s rotten right to the top. The tightest boys club in the world. Deck of cards. if it’s not going to go now, it’ll go soon enough.

More calling for his resignation but that’s an internal situation within the organisation, and I no longer care what they do. I’m furious with this impotent Government who say they can do nothing, despite him being patron to 90+% of schools. They’re saying something like ‘oh it’s terrible but what can we do?’. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Charge him, remove him from state positions, ensure he has no influence in child protection, assess whether he has pro offending attitudes…do something Enda but don’t hide behind your office.

If the government were even semi-serious about this issue, instead of using it as a preen post, they would be recinding the taxpayers’ liability imposed by Micky Woods; whereby compensation of E1bn got transferred to US instead of the church…same old scam, WE pay for THEIR crimes…bankers and temples…a long history of symbiosis. Again, no change of policy, no democratic accountability, just a change of shirt.

What is going on in their heads that they can even think about hanging on. They’re a warped bunch. There should be a statute where if they are found guilty of crimes like this that they are out of their position automatically and tried in court within a week. State laws have to start taking supremacy. Catholic church unable to deal with this issue adequately

These priests in years gone by were subjected to regimes in seminaries and religious institutions that had one goal only: to instil loyalty and obedience to the church at all costs.
Some of these men went along with that trend more than others. To swear a 14 year old child to secrecy having questioned him in as explicit a manner as this boy was shows that Brady had taken this idea of loyalty/obedience to almost cultish extremes.
That he seems to live in a different moral universe to the rest of us is because he actually does.
His morality ,and that of those like him, is dictated not by common decency but dictated by a hierarchical undemocratic secretive institution.
A pox on it, and a pox on him.

Picture the scenario if Brady had been a married priest going home to his wife and telling her what had happened. I would bet pots of money that she would have had him act in the way he should have done without hesitation. Also if he had had children of his own he surely would have looked at them and known exactly what he should do.

Cardinal Brady needs to ask himself a simple question- would I be Cardinal today if I had done what any conscientious civilian would have done ie. warned the parents of the children officially or even anonymously who were under threat from Smith? There are many decent enough people in organisations where such politics and hierarchy exist who put personal ambition and preferment above moral duty and think there is nothing wrong with it.

@David above , in the north there is an agency called the historical crimes commission , covering events that happened in the north, from 1969 until now ,not just ” terrorist ” crimes, i think Brady could be arrested and questioned, as a lot of children from the north were affected by abuse perpetrated by smyth and that would not have happened if Brady had done the right thing and notified the parents of the abused

The church is supposed to be a beacon of morals and ethics. The church’s ‘head honcho’ here in Ireland has NO morals. Cardinal Brady is pulling the church down from the inside. Good man Brady, you undercover Atheist.

@ sid above , on lynch mob here , just advocating the law should go after the people involved

What difference will it make if Cardinal Brady resigns or not ? It will be the same corrupt filthy organization, personally I think Cardinal Brady should be made responsible for his actions by the authorities in this country his resignation from his “position” is of no consequence.

Why isn’t this guy helping the police with their inquiries? Indeed why aren’t the police raiding this guy’s palace and confiscating his files?

In 2009 both the Ryan & Murphy Reports exposed the widespread facilitation and coverup of the physical and sexual torture of thousands of Irish children by clergy – no prosecutions have followed. No assets were seized. The Criminal Assets Bureau hasn’t been called in.

You might ask: “What is the Dept. of Justice doing?”. Well, actually, 2009 was a very busy year for the Dept. of Justice. Almost 15,700 people were prosecuted for not paying their TV licence or for defaulting on fines.

The fact that he is still in his position of power is a crime itself. This wouldn’t happen in other countries. He would have had to go long ago. The fact that he is still there shows that Ireland is not dealing with the serious problem that is the Catholic church.

When it comes to lies, deceit, arrogance and pure greed, the Catholic church takes some beating.

Everybody on here is complaining about Cardinal Brady and the church, but yet people rushed to call themselves Catholics, when the census came out. Why on earth did people do that? We, as a people, have empowered these self righteous, insensitive men, by rushing to worship at their feet. Surely, people know this? We need only walk around any city or town, on Sundays, and we will see empty churches and tiny crowds leaving masses. Yet, we are all still Catholic?? Pull the other one! If God exists, why is a question none of us can truly answer, do you think he/she, or it, are an integral part of an organisation that has hidden child rapists, silenced children’s pleas and wilfully moved predators into African and South American communities, knowing that they would inevitably reoffend? This organisation does not respect anybody, except it’s inner circle. We should demand the implementation of our laws, and stop letting these little men influence our lives and the lives of our children. Catholicism will never regain any bit of credibility, while it continues to pretend like it did nothing wrong, and only a ‘few’ strayed. What are people holding out for? A liberal church? That’s called Protestantism folks! We all know that, and these ageing men in Rome are already taking steps to retreat into fundamentalism, so as to prevent the next generation changing the rules.

John Milton could have wrote these lines to describe Brady…”To reign is worth ambition though in hell. Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven”.

No matter what anyone says there are a lot of people who would still kiss his ring !!

im not religious but perhaps one option for the Irish Catholic church would be to separate from Rome and weed the dinosaurs.

He had no idea of the impact of the abuse……… wtf…… to even utter ghst sentdnce

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/father-kevin-lee-catholic-priest-secret-marriage_n_1472494.html An Australian priest admits to being in a relationship and gets removed the same day, seems sex has to be with an underage unwilling participant screaming with pain and fear for the church to sanction it

should have been ” no lynch mob here “

While there may be a small number of “good priests”, why is there such a disproportionate number of inhumane monsters in the Catholic Church? and just as bad, people like Seán Brady who try cover up the crimes of paedophiles?

Not very “Christian” if you ask me.

By excluding women and treating them like second class citizens the church signed its own death warrant a long time ago as it became a haven for all kinds of strange men.
Brady should resign and women should be ordained and current priests should marry its stupid otherwise.

Cardinal Brady is neatly illustrating two long-suspected truths.
1) that in order to advance within the Church it is necessary to hand over both one’s conscience and one’s intelligence to the hierarchy.
2) that the Catholic Church is neither democratic, nor inclusive, nor subject to any concept of human rights or of the sovereignty of nations.

Doesn’t take long to round up a lynch mob here while there is no getting away from the facts I’m just wondering are all the people that are so vocal here going to go forward and question the position of the guards and ministers for justice and the legal professions role in all of this as we know from the inquires that they and also not forget the media namely rte where left wanting in all of this or are they going to remain the untouchables in our society

AS you may know we have a Royal Commission in Australia to investigate the church , schools etc.
first major arrest made last week, retired priest with around 400 charges made against him, at present he is sitting in a cell.
it is the start of years of bringing to justice for the crimes hidden by the church and others who knew what was and is going on.
its a start !

Cardinal Brady should stay put. He has put in place excellent child protection policies, much stronger/robust than the states. In the last number of years 200 children have died in the tender/loving ” care ” of the Irish state, partially during Kenny’s & Gilmore’s watch. Yet not a single head has rolled. Where does the buck stop ?. As for Martin McGuinness – we all know the human rights afforded to the missing during his watch. Hypocrites, one & all.