IRELAND
Herald
By Garry O’Sullivan
Thursday May 03 2012
TWO years ago, when calls first started for Cardinal Brady to resign, the writing seemed on the wall for him.
At that point, the calls were made over his legalistic and perfunctory performance in 1975 in a Church Tribunal of Inquiry in which, among other explicit questions, a 14-year-old boy was grilled on whether he got enjoyment out of being abused by Fr Brendan Smyth.
I remember taking a phone call from a senior church adviser in the immediate circle around the Cardinal and even this adviser believed he should step down. But the Cardinal clung on.
The Vatican doesn’t like to retire cardinals, the thinking being, if you allow senior management to be taken out, one day the mob will come for the CEO himself.
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