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	Pope Accepts Bishop John Magee's Resignation. Will Cardinal Sean Brady Be Next? By Damian Thompson Telegraph March 24, 2010 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100031256/pope-accepts-bishop-john-magees-resignation-will-cardinal-sean-brady-be-next/ Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee, who stepped aside as Bishop of Cloyne a year ago after an independent report found he had failed to respond adequately to child abuse claims in Country Cork. It’s a miserable end to the career of a man who was once private secretary to Popes Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II. It was Magee who was supposed to have discovered the body of John Paul I in 1978, though it later emerged that a nun had found the pontiff dead in his bedroom. The Vatican, in its wisdom, thought it was more “appropriate” that a priest should be named as the discoverer. As Magee has since put it: “I did find the body of His Holiness. I just didn’t find it first.” All theories that John Paul I were murdered are, incidentally, the most utter nonsense. Anyway, all eyes now should be on Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh. I would be surprised if the Pope did not accept his resignation, too – though it looks as if we shall have to wait until after Easter for a decision. Benedict XVI is serious about sorting out the Irish Church. His letter on Saturday castigating the Irish bishops was unprecedented in the anger and contrition it displayed. More later.
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