Cardinal apologizes for child abuse 'failures'

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The head of the Irish Catholic Church, Cardinal Sean Brady, admitted Wednesday that the church's response to abuse had been "hopelessly inadequate."

"The church must continue to deal with the enormity of the hurt caused by abuse of children by some clergy ... and the hopelessly inadequate response to that abuse in the past," Brady said Wednesday.

Church leaders must "own up to and take responsibility for any mismanagement or cover-up of child abuse," he said.

The cardinal also apologized for his role in the church's investigation into an abusive priest in 1975.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/17/catholic.ireland.abuse/index.html?hpt=T2

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I'm sure they can relocate him to another diocese where he can continue to do the Lord's Work...

[RainDog]

1. He should resign nt

[chollybocker]

5. He previously said that he wouldn't resign

unless the pope asked him to.

Shifting the blame, or implicating a pontiff, tbd.

[RainDog]

7. yeah, I know. even tho he sat in meetings telling victims to shut up

the good thing to come out of this is the unequivocal understanding that no matter what the religious group...

THEY HAVE NO MORAL AUTHORITY.

They have nothing to say that matters on issues of concern to families, mothers, women, children...

And they deserve to be opposed when they try to insert themselves into others' lives... not only at the level of pedophilia, but also at the level of decisions any woman may make with her doctor.

The Rat covered up for his brother's actions too.

The Rat WROTE THE BOOK on how to silence accusers and protect the guilty.

[chollybocker]

10. That's how a Rat becomes a Pope.

He knows EVERYTHING about EVERY pedophile right under his powdered nose. The Vatican is a criminal organization.

[MichiganVote]

2. The boys club....apologies mean next to nothing.

[Grassy Knoll]

3. Man made God.......

Man wrote the bible
Man told man of cloth, don't have sex
Man oh Man, oh god.

[rurallib]

4. Well - there you go - all better now

hope nobody was hurt. (for the humor impaired this is sarcasm.)

[Garbo 2004]

6. Those that cover up and obstruct should be charged for criminal conspiracy. nt

[itsrobert]

8. I thought thread was going to be about Mark McGwire hitting his nephew.

My mistake.

[MindandSoul]

Now, when is the Pope going to apologize for his part in covering up???

[MrMickeysMom]

11. When his home freezes over, that's when.

[MindandSoul]

9. Now, when is the Pope going to apologize for his part in covering up???

[David Zephyr]

12. Being a Cardinal means always saying you're sorry.

What an evil institution.

[defendandprotect]

13. Fish stinks from the head down!! Pisces!!

[No Elephants]

14. Abuse from 1975 to 2004? How about from 50 a.d. to 2010? And the lies continue:

"The oaths of secrecy were "to avoid potential collusion" between the two boys as church officials investigated the case, the Catholic Communications Office said this week."




BULLSHIT. Everyone in every country who complained of abuse had to swear secrecy, even if no other child was involved. Besides, if the above were so, the obligation to remain quiet would have ended once the investigation ended. Finally, who the hell ever said the Catholic Church had no obligation to report these claims to the police? If the children or their parents complained, there was no confessional privilege involved.

How in hell can they still stand there with their bare faces hanging out and continue to lie like this?




"Despite his criticism of Brady, Kelly said it would not necessarily do any good for the cardinal to resign.

"He's lost all moral authority to lead, but by replacing him, it won't resolve the problem," Kelly said, arguing the Vatican would "just replace guys with other guys."



Um, what in hell does that mean? (No pun intended)

Besides, Cardinal O'Malley replaced Cardinal Law in Massachusetts and Massachusetts Catholics seem to be resting much easier.



"The pope has been under fire since it was revealed a priest suspected of abusing children was allowed to move into his diocese when he was Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger in Germany in 1980.

The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a statement Monday it must have been clear at the time that the priest -- whom multiple sources identified to CNN as Peter Hullermann -- was coming to get therapy for allegedly molesting children. He was convicted of abuse in 1986 after Ratzinger moved to Rome. Hullermann was suspended Monday."



How about being under fire for his role in the Holy See vis a vis pedophile priests when he was Cardinal Ratzinger?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ratzinger_as_Prefect_of_the_Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith

This is the man the College of Cardinals chose to elevate to the Papacy after the Massachusetts and California lawsuits?

His Holiness?

[KansDem]

15. Why aren't these people in prison?

Every pedophile priest and the cardinals and bishops who covered up the abuse.

I once sat on a jury that sent a man accused of child neglect to prison. His crime was that he wasn't paying child support. It had gone through civil court and ended up in criminal court.

He went to prison for not paying child support, but these pedophiles and pedophile-enablers are "apologizing?"

[saigon68]

16. The GOOD Father Feeney and others EXPOSED

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/

APPLETON - A judge ruled Troy and Todd Merryfield can seek punitive damages for what they believe was an intentional cover-up of abuse by the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.

In 2004, former priest John Patrick Feeney was convicted of sexually assaulting the brothers in 1978, when they were teenagers. He is serving a 15-year prison sentence.

The Merryfields claim the diocese knew about abuse by Feeney and covered it up. They say they want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"It's just another step forward for our side in holding them accountable for what they did in the past so they don't repeat it in the future," said Jeff Anderson, the attorney for the Merryfields.

http://www.andersonadvocates.com/NewsListing.aspx?ID=360

[provis99]

17. the Catholic Church is a voluntary association.

If Catholics don't like what goes on, they should quit the church. If they don't quit, they tacitly support what their church leaders do.