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	Irish Bishop Quits over Church Sex Abuse By Steve Marshall USA Today March 24, 2010 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/irish-bishop-quits-over-church-sex-abuse/1 IRELAND -- Bishop John Magee of the diocese of Cloyne, Ireland, said today he had resigned his position and he apologized for any abuse that occurred in his diocese. CNN says the bishop offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI on March 9. "To those whom I have failed in any way, or through any omission of mine have made suffer, I beg forgiveness and pardon." Update at 8:50 am ET: CBC News in Canada elaborates in its article, saying that Magee had been accused of mishandling complaints of sex abuse in his diocese. Magree, 73, was appointed bishop of the diocese in southern Ireland in 1987, CBC said. Three Irish government-ordered investigations documented that thousands of Irish children were abused by priests in their parishes and by nuns and brothers in boarding schools and orphanages. Not a single case was reported to police until 1996, CBC said, when victims began to sue the church. For the CBC report, click here.
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