VATICAN CITY
The Irish Times
PADDY AGNEW in Rome
VATICAN RESPONSE: SENIOR FIGURES in the Holy See yesterday were forthright in their defence of Cardinal Brady, rejecting calls for his resignation and arguing that he had acted correctly in 1975 when he took information from clerical sex abuse victim Brendan Boland.
Senior Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, referred The Irish Times to the statement issued yesterday by Cardinal Brady. In particular, he highlighted a statement made by the Vatican’s chief prosecutor, Msgr Charles Scicluna, to the makers of the BBC documentary, which was itself contained in Cardinal Brady’s statement.
In his statement Msgr Scicluna said that Fr Brady, now Cardinal Brady, “acted promptly and with determination to ensure the allegations being made by the children were believed and acted upon by his superiors”.
In his statement yesterday, Cardinal Brady said the above statement by Msgr Scicluna was made to the BBC Northern Ireland team six weeks before the broadcast of the programme but was “not acknowledged by them in any way”.
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