NORTHERN IRELAND
News Letter
Published on Tuesday 8 May 2012
CARDINAL Sean Brady has been unfairly singled out for criticism over child sex abuse cover-up allegations, according to the Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
Although he stopped short of defending the under-fire Cardinal’s actions, Bishop Donal McKeown has pointed an accusing finger at influential people in other spheres, saying some could be using the “pain of victims to further their own agendas”.
The Catholic Church in Ireland has been rocked by recent revelations that, in 1975, Cardinal Brady was involved in a secret Church inquiry into Fr Brendan Smyth’s sexual abuse of children.
Most damning of the allegations is that the then 36-year-old church legal expert failed to notify police or the parents of children at risk.
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