IRELAND
Catholic World News
Jan. 24 (CWNews.com) - An Irish group serving rape victims has demanded a public apology by Bishop Eamonn Casey, saying that the bishop abused his position when he conducted an affair with a woman who bore his child.
The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) points out that Bishop Casey's affair with Annie Murphy began when the woman "was in Ireland to recover from a painfully personal experience." The group charges that the bishop betrayed her confidence by his "misuse of position and neglect of duty of care." Thus the affair was "not a private matter between two cosenting adults."
"While the RCNI would not wish to deny Father (sic) Eamonn Casey release from exile," the group said, "we do think that an acknowledgment or even recognition of the wrong doing is required."