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	Healy Rae Calls for Cardinal Brady to Resign: By Kevin Hughes Kerryman March 17, 2010 http://www.kerryman.ie/news/healy-rae-calls-for-cardinal-brady-to-resign-2101486.html IRELAND -- A HIGH profile Kerry county councillor said this week Cardinal Sean Brady shoudl resign, labelling actions during which the Primate got children to sign vows of silence following complaints against Fr Brendan Smyth, an "outrage" and "beyond belief". Former Mayor of Kerry Michael Healy Rae is widely considered to have conservative leanings when it comes to church matters but on Tuesday he called on the Irish Primate to leave office immediately for the sake of the Catholic Church's future "I'd be the first to come to his defence usually but he is doing irrecoverable damage every hour that he remains. It is an outrage that he is staying on – if it were a politician he would be long gone," the Kilgarvan man stated. Revealing that he was a long term admirer of Cardinal Brady, whom he called an intelligent and dedicated man, the councillor said the Cardinal's position was now untenable. "I feel that he should resign to secure the future of the Catholic Church. This is the biggest issue I've ever seen in my political life and in all of my clinics every single person has expressed their concerns over the issue." The councillor said he wanted to know if Cardinal Brady would have dealt with the matter in the same way if his nieces or nephews had been involved and added it had been unbelievable that vulnerable children had been demanded to keep a veil of secrecy. "I just can't get around it in my head. After silencing two 'craturs' who were abused, the result of his actions meant that more abuse continued. I can't understand for the life of me how he can stay after what he did and stood over." The councillor added that there was an elephant in the room that had to be dealt with immediately as the Cardinal's actions were unacceptable behaviour to the people of Ireland today. Contact: khughes@kerryman.ie
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