Should Cardinal Brady resign? Yes is the short answer. I am sure that he probably feels he is being hounded by a blood-thirsty press pack. And to some extent he is right.
However, as far as I am concerned he only has one question to ask and answer for himself: could I have done something to prevent the rape and abuse of boys and girls? The answer is yes. Ergo he should go. How can his own conscience allow anything else? How can he sleep at night with the stories of what happened going round in his head - knowing that he could have stopped such an evil man as Brendan Smith.
Young children were raped....has that word lost some its power even in all of the obfuscataion thats been so prevalent in recent months...Young children were RAPED and BUGGERED and ABUSED for almost a further 20 years after he as a 36 year old priest - a Canon Lawyer, not some uneducated, unwordlywise novice - knew about it AND WAS IN A POSITION TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN.
He wasn't the only one, to be sure but if he accepts the principle that the Bishops who have already resigned as a a result of their sins of ommission (at the very least) then he too must go.
How many children and even lives could have been saved if he had only spoken up? Does he need to ask himself anything else? I don't think so.
Nobody is saying that he was an abuser - but he did nothing to ensure that an abuser was stopped. Not good enough. Enough said.
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