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	Bishop Moriarty Will Not Resign By Conor Ganly Leinster Express December 11, 2009 http://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/Bishop-Moriarty-will-not-resign.5904600.jp BISHOP Jim Moriarty has said he will not be stepping down from his position as head of the Catholic church in parts of Laois Offaly and other Leinster counties. The Bishop is among the five Irish bishops who are named in the Murphy report on clerical child sexual abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. None have stood down so far despite pressure coming from victims of abuse. Bishop Moriarity appears determined to stay on. "I do not consider that there are any grounds there upon which I should resign," said the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in a statement issued following a meeting of Bishops in Maynooth. "I repeat that I fully accept the overall conclusion of the Murphy report that the attempts by church authorities to 'protect the church' and to 'avoid scandal' had the most dreadful consequences for children and were deeply wrong," he said. Bishop Moriarty noted that he was "briefly mentioned but not criticised in the report". Marie Collins told the Leinster Express this week that the Bishop "must go". Portlaoise, Portarlington and Mountmellick parishes come under the jurisdiction of Bishop Moriarty.
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