IRELAND
BBC News
Irish priest Father Brian D’Arcy has said he believes Cardinal Sean Brady was willing to offer his resignation two years ago but the Vatican refused.
Fr D’Arcy was responding to a BBC This World programme which found that the cardinal failed to pass details of sex abuse to police or parents.
It said that in 1975, Cardinal Brady had the names and address of children being abused by Fr Brendan Smyth.
Smyth, a paedophile, continued to attack children for a further 13 years.
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