IRELAND
BBC News
By Robert Pigott
Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News
Senior politicians have intensified pressure on the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, to resign over a paedophile priest scandal in the 1970s.
But the Vatican – where the key decisions on his future will be made – has its own reasons for wanting him to stay.
Meanwhile, the row could overshadow the Church’s International Eucharistic Congress, due to take part in Ireland next month.
Three out of the four main parties in the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Irish Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness have called on Cardinal Brady to consider his position.
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