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	Pope Rejects Irish Bishops’ Resignations Lez Get Real August 11 2010 http://lezgetreal.com/2010/08/pope-rejects-irish-bishops-resignations/ Newspaper The Irish Catholic is reporting that the reluctantly offered resignations of Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field have been rejected by Pope Benedict XVI. Both bishops presided over dioceses that were involved in the cynical cover up of rampant child abuse allegations. Bishop Ryan was in the diocese of Ferns and Bishop Field was in Dublin. Both offered their resignations in December 2009, following intense pressure from victims’ groups and the public. The newspaper obtained a letter from Archbishop Diarmuid Martin revealing the Pope’s decision and that both Bishops Ryan and Fields would remain as Auxillary bishops and will, ”be assigned revised responsibilities within the diocese.” Of course, reassigning bishops is an entirely new thing. Reassigning priests is what got them all in trouble in the first place.
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