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| Cardinal Brady, Catholic Primate of All-ireland Failed to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse by a Paedophile Priest: a Compilation
By Paris Arrow
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
May 2, 2012
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/05/cardinal-brady-catholic-primate-of-all.html
It is very timely that on the first year anniversary of Opus Dei Golden Cow Blessed John Paul II, revelations have hit Ireland that Cardinal Brady, the Catholic primate of all-Ireland failed to protect children from sexual abuse by a paedophile priest and he is being asked to resign...just like Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law who confessed in public to transferring 80 pedophile priests from one parish to another but John Paul II did not bother to meet any of these pedophile priests or their victims. Cardinal Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston but John Paul II papal farted at us Bostonians by taking him to glorify him in Rome. That is why Blessed John Paul II is the Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests. With Cardinal Brady at its head, Ireland is like the vast Catholic Church with Benedict Ratzinger & Marcial Maciel who are 2 criminal heads of the Mystical Body and Legion of Christ , read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/03/benedict-ratzinger-marcial-maciel-are-2.htmlBelow we will post all on-going articles regarding Brady.
Read our related articles on Hypocrite Benedict silenced Fr Tony Flannery – A compilation… but he does not silence Cardinal Bernard Law and JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/hypocrite-benedict-silenced-outspoken.html
Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children ]
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
May 2, 2012 news
Brady confronted over failure to protect children
IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
2 May 2012 Last updated at 08:37 ET
Cardinal Brady, the Catholic primate of all-Ireland has been challenged over allegations that he failed to protect children from sexual abuse by a paedophile priest.
A BBC documentary found he was aware of the names and addresses of children being abused by a paedophile priest, Brendan Smyth, but did not ensure their safety.
The church points out that in 1975, "no state or church guidelines for responding to allegations of child abuse existed in Ireland".
This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church is broadcast on Wednesday 2 May 2012 at 2100 BST on BBC Two. Watch on BBC iPlayer (UK only) or check for repeats at the above link.
One in Four calls for explanation from Cardinal after 'failure to act' allegation
IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Abuse victims support group One in Four has said new allegations surrounding Cardinal Sean Brady's role in the Brendan Smyth abuse scandal require an explanation from the Cardinal.
A BBC documentary last night claimed that information was given to an investigating team of clerics, including Cardinal Brady, in 1975 about other children who were being abused at the time, but that the information was not passed on.
The information uncovers how the Primate of All-Ireland was handed written names and addresses of three boys and two girls who were being abused or were at risk of being abused by Smyth in 1975 — 19 years before he was jailed in 1994. Four of the children were being abused, it later emerged. Two continued to be abused after the 1975 inquiry.
Despite having five names, Cardinal Brady only made contact with one of the children, a young man from Cavan. However, he did not tell the boy’s parents, gardai, or the health authorities about the boy’s confirmation that he had been abused. He just sent a report to his bishop, who later barred Smyth from Confession and reduced his ability to complete public duties.
Cardinal 'misrepresented' on abuse
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Ireland's most senior cleric Cardinal Sean Brady has said his role in a 1975 investigation into paedophile Brendan Smyth had been exaggerated.
The Primate faced renewed demands to resign after it emerged a then 14-year-old victim of Smyth`s warned him in secret interviews that it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children.
The Cardinal said his role in the inquiry has been deliberately exaggerated and misrepresented in a BBC documentary aired last night.
"I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused," he said.
Victim of pervert priest...
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Victim of pervert priest says cardinal Brady took notes as he told of vile assaults
By Greg Harkin
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Between 1973 and 1975, altar boy Brendan Boland was among many victims of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
Aged just 14, he plucked up the courage to report his two years of horrific abuse at the hands of the Nobertine Order priest.
It wasn’t an easy thing to do for an adult, never mind a young teenage boy.
He approached a priest he could trust who worked with his local youth club; he in turn told Brendan’s parents and his Bishop.
Fr Greene’s child sex abuse featured in explosive BBC documentary
IRELAND
Donegal Democrat
Published on Wednesday 2 May 2012
The extensive abuse of children in west Donegal by Father Eugene Greene was dealt with in an explosive documentary aired last night by the BBC.
The programme, “The shame of the Catholic Church” outlined how decades of clerical abuse and cover up left the Catholic Church in Ireland at breaking point.
Investigative journalist, Darragh MacIntyre, made claims on the programme in relation to Cardinal Sean Brady, the Primate of All Ireland, which have stunned the public.
The programme claimed that Cardinal Brady had the names and addresses of children who were being abused or were at risk of being abused by Ireland’s most notorious paedophile, Fr Brendan Smyth, but failed to ensure that they were protected.
O'Gorman calls for admission that Brady 'failed to act appropriately'
IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The founder of One in Four has called for Cardinal Sean Brady to admit he failed to act appropriately by not reporting the abuse of children in 1975.
A BBC documentary last night claimed Cardinal Brady was part of a team of clerics who were made aware of allegations of abuse by Fr Brendan Smyth in 1975, but failed to act.
However in a statement released before the programme aired last night, the Cardinal's spokesman said the then Father Brady was a notetaker for the inquiry, and it was not his responsibility to inform the civil authorities.
Fergus Finlay reveals personal experience of child abuse
IRELAND
The Journal
BARNARDOS CEO FERGUS Finlay has revealed that he is a survivor of child abuse.
Finlay, a long-standing advocate of the rights of children, said that he had been both sexually and physically abused while a child in the early Sixties.
He was commenting amid ongoing controversy over the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady’s role in interviewing a victim of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth during the 1970s.
Speaking on Newstalk’s The Right Hook, Finlay rejected the suggestion that Brady might have been prevented from acting on his knowledge of the abuse allegations because a different culture existed in Ireland when the interview took place.
Cardinal Brady will not resign over 'abuse failure'
IRELAND
BBC News
The Catholic primate of all-Ireland has said that he will not resign as Church leader despite revelations in the BBC's This World show.
It found Cardinal Sean Brady had names and addresses of those being abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
However, he did not pass on those details to police or parents.
Cardinal Brady said he accepted he was part of "an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the Church".
Cardinal Brady says he had no power to stop Brendan Smyth
IRELAND
The Journal
RESPONDING TO ALLEGATIONS made by BBC’s This World last night, Cardinal Sean Brady has criticised the programme makers for overstating and “seriously misrepresenting” his role in a 1975 church inquiry into allegations of child abuse against notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
In the written statement, the top official of the Catholic Church in Ireland said he will not resign over the fresh claims but intends to continue the “vital work” being carried out to ensure proper and robust procedures are in place to respond to any allegations of abuse against children.
Commenting on the secret inquiry in 1975, Brady said last night’s programme gave the impression that he was the only one to know of the allegations and that he “somehow had the power to stop Brendan Smyth”.
“I had absolutely no authority over Brendan Smyth. Even my Bishop had limited authority over him,” he said, after refuting notions that he led the investigation.
‘Did you ever do anything like this before?’...
IRELAND
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
‘Did you ever do anything like this before?’: Victim of child abusing priest tells of secret church investigation by Cardinal which swore him to silence
The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, is under renewed pressure after he was accused of failing to act on child abuse by a notorious paedophile priest in the 1970s.
Brady has already admitted he took notes of two children’s testimony of abuse in 1975 and gave the report to his bishop, not the police.
One of those children, now an adult, told the BBC he also alerted Brady to other children being abused by the same priest, Father Brendan Smyth, but Brady did not warn their parents of the danger.
Cardinal lacks the courage to resign, says Fr Smyth victim
UNITED STATES
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
One of Fr Brendan Smyth's victims said today that Cardinal Sean Brady is a flawed man for not speaking out in the past against the paedophile priest.
Helen McGonigle - an Attorney based in Connecticut in the United States - suffered abuse at the hands of Brendan Smyth in the late 1960s in Rhode Island.
She's calling on the Cardinal to resign and she believes he should face prosecution for not passing on the allegations he was aware of in 1975 to the civil authorities.
Ms McGonigle sais that Cardinal Brady failed in his duty.
Why the leader of Ireland's Catholics must quit
IRELAND
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
Mark Dooley
With each passing day, the crisis in the Irish Catholic Church grows deeper. In a BBC This World documentary screened on BBC Northern Ireland last night, it was claimed that, in 1975, the Catholic Primate of Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, failed to inform parents that their children were being abused by the notorious paedophile priest, Brendan Smyth. Here is how one Irish newspaper reported the incident this morning:
‘In last night’s programme, Brendan Boland, who was abused by Smyth as a 12-year-old, claimed that information he gave to a Catholic Church inquiry team, which included Cardinal Brady, was not passed on to parents of the victims of the paedophile priest. Mr Boland from County Louth recounted how two of these victims, a boy from Belfast and a boy from Cavan, continued to be abused by the priest after the inquiry group, which comprised three priests, completed its work. The programme expands on information disclosed in 2010 about how the information compiled by the canonical inquiry in 1975, to which Mr Boland gave evidence, was not passed on to gardai [police]. That disclosure led to calls for Cardinal Brady to resign’.
In response, a spokesman for the Cardinal said that ‘even according to today’s State and Church guidelines, Fr Brady [as he then was] would not be the person with responsibility for making a report to the civil authorities. That responsibility at the time rested with the only people who had the authority to stop Brendan Smyth, namely the Abbot of his Monastery’.
Cardinal Sean Brady under pressure over abuse list
IRELAND
The Guardian (United Kingdom)
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 May 2012
The leader of the Catholic church in Ireland was under renewed pressure to step down after a television programme alleged that he failed to hand over a list of children being abused by the country's most notorious paedophile priest to the victims' parents or the police.
Cardinal Sean Brady faces fresh allegations that he failed to act after one of the victims gave him a list in 1975 of other children being abused by Father Brendan Smyth, who was convicted in 1994 of dozens of offences over a 40-year period.
While the Vatican appeared to be rallying around Brady, organisations representing the victims of clerical sex abuse in Ireland said these new allegations made his position untenable.
The Irish justice minister, Alan Shatter, described the testimony of an abuse victim who claimed to have handed over a list of names and addresses of victims to Brady as "tragic and disturbing".
Brady resists resignation calls
IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, has vowed to stay on as he attempted to distance himself from a secret inquiry into one of the country's most dangerous paedophiles.
Even though he was part of the 1975 investigation into allegations Fr Brendan Smyth had attacked at least five children, the Cardinal blamed superiors for failing to stop the priest abusing children over the next 20 years.
Rejecting growing demands for his resignation, he declared: "There's no cloaking over or brushing under the carpet.
"We're not hiding behind procedures. There was no desire on my part to cover up, it was to make sure that this abuse stopped."
Police urged to probe priest abuse claims ...
IRELAND
The Independent (United Kingdom)
Police urged to probe priest abuse claims following Cardinal Sean Brady's resignation refusal
Steven McCaffery
Wednesday 02 May 2012
Police should investigate the latest child sex abuse allegations to hit the Catholic Church, Amnesty International has said.
The human rights group said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) should see if information on abuse was not acted upon.
This comes after Catholic Primate Cardinal Sean Brady defended himself against criticism, insisting he had passed on details of abuse to Church authorities, and claimed others had failed to act as he expected.
Amnesty's Northern Ireland programme director Patrick Corrigan said: "The protection of the rights of children is one of the most precious responsibilities carried by the state.
Irish Cardinal Rejects New Accusations on Pedophile Priest
IRELAND
The New York Times
By DOUGLAS DALBY
Published: May 2, 2012
DUBLIN — The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said Wednesday that he would not resign despite new accusations that he failed 35 years ago to alert the parents of victims of a serial pedophile priest, allowing the abuse to continue for more than a decade.
The cardinal’s statement blamed other members of the church hierarchy for failing to act to halt the priest, Brendan Smyth.
“With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them,” Cardinal Brady said in his statement. “However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.”
Cardinal Brady resisted calls to step down two years ago over his role in a 1975 church investigation, saying his role had been confined to taking notes in interviews with a child who said he and others were being sexually abused by the priest, Brendan Smyth, a teacher, canon lawyer and bishop’s secretary. The cardinal maintains that his notes had been passed on to his superiors and it had been up to them to deal with the matter, given that in 1975, he had no major role in the church and no authority over Father Smyth.
Fresh claims put pressure on Cardinal Brady
IRELAND
BBC News
By Andy Martin
BBC News
Cardinal Brady became the Catholic Primate of all-Ireland in 1996, but the appointment that may define his career was made 21 years earlier.
As a Bishop's secretary in 1975, he was tasked with investigating a complaint of sexual abuse made against a fellow priest, the man who would later be exposed as Ireland's most prolific paedophile, Fr Brendan Smyth.
The manner in which he handled that internal church inquiry has come under intense scrutiny in a BBC 'This World' investigation.
Cardinal Brady response
IRELAND
The Irish Times
A SPOKESMAN for Cardinal Sean Brady said before the BBC programme was broadcast that he had not seen it, but wanted to make the following points.
The text is slightly edited:
* It is critical to note Cardinal Brady’s comment in 2009, that he would resign if by his action children were put at risk, was specifically in response to a question about if he was a bishop with overall responsibility for dealing with allegations . . . but . . . in 1975, he was a priest who was asked by his own bishop to record evidence . . . Fr Brady had no authority over Brendan Smyth . . . It would be disingenuous to report the 2009 quote in any other way.
* Even today, in the State’s own guidelines for responding to allegations of abuse against children, it is the “Designated Person” in the organisation who has responsibility for reporting the matter to the civil authorities, not the person who first receives or notes the details of the allegation, as Fr Brady did in 1975.
'We were assured there would be no recurrence of the abuse which I and other victims had suffered'
IRELAND
The Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY
How Church's handling of clerical child abuse led to court cases decades later
1973 Norbertine priest Fr Brendan Smyth began his abuse of schoolboy Brendan Boland (12). It continued for two years.
Early 1975 Brendan Boland spoke to a priest in his home town of Dundalk about his abuse by Smyth. It was reported to church authorities. The bishop of Kilmore, Francis McKiernan, received reports of another allegation of abuse by Smyth involving a boy in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan.
March 1975 Fr Sean Brady was asked by Bishop McKiernan to conduct a canonical inquiry into the two allegations involving Smyth. The then Fr Brady was a 35-year-old teacher at St Patrick’s College, Cavan, and part-time secretary to Bishop McKiernan. Brady also held a doctorate in canon law.
Details of abuse given to inquiry, says victim
IRELAND
The Irish Times
GERRY MORIARTY, Northern Editor
A VICTIM of late paedophile priest Brendan Smyth has stated he gave information to a Catholic Church inquiry team that included Fr Sean Brady – now Cardinal Brady – about how Smyth had abused other children.
Brendan Boland (51), from Co Louth, said this information was not passed on to the parents of these children, two of whom continued to be abused by the serial child sex abuser.
Smyth continued to abuse one particular Belfast boy a year after Mr Boland had given information about this abuse to a church inquiry, it was claimed last night. Three priests, including canonical lawyer Fr Brady – now the Catholic primate, Cardinal Brady – conducted that 1975 inquiry.
Details of this abuse and how such details were not passed on to the children’s parents or to gardai are contained in a BBC’s This World documentary, The Shame of the Catholic Church, broadcast last night on BBC Northern Ireland. It is to be rebroadcast tonight on BBC 2.
Pope should have made Irish visit after abuse claims
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Pope himself should have come to Ireland himself following the allegations of child abuse by Irish priests in the 1970s, it has been claimed.
The call came from a contributor to a radio debate in the wake of last night's revelations that Cardinal Sean Brady knew of cases of abuse by a priests like Father Brendan Smyth.
A BBC investigation found that Cardinal Brady, the primate of all-Ireland, had the names and addresses of those being abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, but did not ensure their safety.
The investigation centres on a secret church inquiry in 1975 when a 14-year-old boy, Brendan Boland was questioned about abuse.
Timeline: Reports into clerical sex abuse claims in Ireland
IRELAND
BBC News
The latest claims about Cardinal Sean Brady in a BBC investigation come after numerous reports into clerical sex abuse in Ireland.
October 2005 The Ferns Report, an Irish government inquiry, found that successive bishops had failed to adequately protect children from abuse in the Wexford diocese.
It uncovered more than 100 allegations of sexual abuse by priests and said the allegations were made against 21 priests who had been working in the diocese between 1966-2002.
May 2009 The Ryan Report found that sexual and psychological abuse was "endemic" in Catholic-run industrial schools and orphanages in Ireland for most of the 20th century.
Brady criticises BBC over abuse allegation programme
IRELAND
The Irish Times
CHARLIE TAYLOR and GERRY MORIARTY
Catholic primate Sean Brady has today seriously criticised a BBC television programme which focused on the church's handing of clerical sex abuse allegations.
Dr Brady said allegations made against him in the BBC This World documentary, The Shame of the Catholic Church, were "seriously misleading and untrue" and claimed the programme makers set out to "deliberately exaggerate and misrepresent" his role in events.
Click here for Cardinal Sean Brady's full statement:
According to the programme, which was broadcast on BBC Nothern Ireland last night, a Catholic Church inquiry team that included the then Fr Brady failed to pass on allegations of abuse to parents of some of the vicims of the paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth in 1975.
Brendan Boland recalls abuse by Father Brendan Smyth
IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
2 May 2012 Last updated at 04:10 ET
Brendan Boland was 11 years old when he was sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth.
Back in 1975, he reported the abuse to Fr (now Cardinal) Sean Brady and two other priests, hoping to end the abuse of him and others. After giving evidence to them he was sworn to secrecy.
Cardinal Brady signed two reports about the abuse of Boland and another boy and passed them on to his bishop, but the police were never informed.
It was not until 1994 that Smyth was convicted of dozens of offences against children over a 40-year period.
Cardinal Brady revelations: reaction
IRELAND
BBC News
As the BBC's This World documentary offers fresh revelations about the failure of the Irish Catholic primate Cardinal Sean Brady to protect children from abuse, Church representatives, politicians and victims of clerical abuse respond.
Senior Vatican prosecutor Monsignor Charles Scicluna
"My first point is that Fr Brady was a note taker in 1975, he did what he should have done. He forwarded all the information to the people that had the power to act.
My second point is that in the interest of the Church in Ireland, they need to have Cardinal Brady as the archbishop of Armagh because he has shown determination in promoting child protection policies. You need to have leaders who have learned the hard way and are determined to protect children.
They have learned because they have realised that you have to act immediately.
Maeve Lewis, One in Four
"It will be heartbreaking for survivors to realise that their suffering could have been avoided if only action had been taken.
While on paper the Church now has good child protection practices, this documentary casts a shadow on the credibility of Cardinal Brady as a leader of the new policy. Although the times were very different then, it is unimaginable that any adult had such knowledge and failed to act"
Cardinal Brady 'failed to act on sex abuse claims'
IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
New revelations about the failure of the Catholic primate of all-Ireland to protect children from abuse have been uncovered by the BBC's This World show.
It found Cardinal Sean Brady had the names and addresses of those being abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, but did not ensure their safety.
The investigation centres on a secret church inquiry in 1975 when a 14-year-old boy was questioned about abuse.
Smyth abused him and others in guesthouses on trips across Ireland.
Cardinal Brady's statement in full
IRELAND
BBC News
Cardinal Sean Brady has issued his response to the BBC's This World documentary, The Shame of the Catholic Church.
Here is the full text of his statement.
"On Tuesday 1 May 2012, the BBC 'This World' series broadcast a programme entitled 'The Shame of the Catholic Church' on the BBC Northern Ireland network. In the course of the programme a number of claims were made which overstate and seriously misrepresent my role in a Church Inquiry in 1975 into allegations against the Norbertine priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
"In response to the programme I wish to draw attention to the following:
"Six weeks before broadcast (15 March 2012) I drew the attention of the programme makers to a number of important facts related to the 1975 Church inquiry into Brendan Smyth, which the programme failed to report and which I now wish to restate for all other media who report on this matter:
"To suggest, as the programme does, that I led the investigation of the 1975 Church Inquiry into allegations against Brendan Smyth is seriously misleading and untrue. I was asked by my then Bishop (Bishop Francis McKiernan of the Diocese of Kilmore) to assist others who were more senior to me in this Inquiry process on a one-off basis only;
"The documentation of the interview with Brendan Boland, signed in his presence, clearly identifies me as the 'notary' or 'note taker'. Any suggestion that I was other than a 'notary' in the process of recording evidence from Mr Boland, is false and misleading;
Top Catholic faces new cover-up claims
IRELAND
9 News (Australia)
20:51 AEDT Wed May 2 2012
Shawn Pogatchnik
The leader of Ireland's four million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, faced renewed pressure to resign on Wednesday after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up child abuse committed by a notorious pedophile priest in the 1970s.
Brady already has admitted he took written testimony in 1975 from two abused teenage boys and gave the report to his bishop, not the police.
The revelations became public after victims sued Brady and the church for damages and won confidential settlements.
One of those now-adult children, Brendan Boland, told the BBC he also alerted Brady to five other children being abused by the same priest, but Brady didn't tell their parents of the danger.
New allegations emerge on Brady's role in child sex abuse inquiry
IRELAND
TV3
New allegations have been made about Cardinal Sean Brady's role in a child sexual abuse inquiry in 1975.
In a BBC documentary, a man who was abused by paedophile priest Fr. Brendan Smyth as a child, claimed he told a church inquiry about other children who were at risk, but the allegations were not acted on.
The programme claimed that the parents of the children at the centre of the new allegations were never informed that they were at risk.
Cardinal Brady rocked by pervert cleric cover-up claims
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Greg Harkin
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Even 15 years after his death, the malign shadow of Fr Brendan Smyth still haunts the Catholic Church
Cardinal Sean Brady has insisted that he would not resign after fresh claims about his role in the cover-up of abuse by serial paedophile cleric Brendan Smyth.
Documents suggest that he was an investigator into paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth — and not a just a note taker.
The BBC allegations also include claims Cardinal Brady and the Church failed to pass on any warnings to other victims of Smyth, despite accepting the evidence of a victim.
Cardinal Brady profile
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By John Mulgrew
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Cardinal Sean Brady has been Primate of All Ireland since 1996 and in the last few years he has been forced to deal with the damaging fallout from two reports into clerical abuse within the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Two major reports into child sex abuse were published — the Ryan report, which looked at abuse within Catholic institution, and the Murphy report which examined a massive abuse cover-up in the Dublin diocese.
In 2010 it emerged that Cardinal Brady had been present when children signed vows of silence over allegations of abuse made against paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth in 1975.
He had previously apologised for his role in mishandling the case of the serial child abuser.
Brendan Smyth - the evil predator who sparked crisis in Church and State
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Fergus Black
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Leering chillingly into the camera lens, the face is that of perhaps the country’s best-known and most notorious of paedophile priests.
The fallout from the controversy surrounding the case of serial sexual predator Fr Brendan Smyth continues to resound almost 15 years after his death.
A member of the Norbertine Order, Smyth’s litany of abuse going back to the 1940s led to the collapse of a government and the exposure of widespread clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Born in Belfast in 1927, Smyth joined the Norbertines in 1945, but decades would pass before his hidden life as one of the most notorious Irish clerical sex abusers was to be revealed.
Brady did not act on Smyth sex abuse claim says victim
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Greg Harkin and Independent.ie reporters
Wednesday May 02 2012
CARDINAL Sean Brady is expected to release a full statement later today after refusing to resign over fresh claims about his role in the cover-up of abuse by serial paedophile cleric Brendan Smyth.
Previously unseen documents suggest that he was an investigator into paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth -- and not a just a note taker.
Brendan Boland, from Co Louth, a victim of serial abuser Brendan Smyth, when he was just 12, told how information about his evil deeds was not passed onto parents of other victims by the inquiry team and two boys continued to be abused after the inquiry.
The allegations are made in a BBC documentary which also revealed that a hand-written note for a church inquiry into Smyth in 1975, at which the then Fr Brady was present, puts him in an investigative role.
Brady clear on child sex abuse claims – Vatican prosecutor
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Lyndsey Telford
Wednesday May 02 2012
THE Vatican's chief investigator has insisted that Ireland's most senior cleric has no case to answer over renewed allegations of mishandling of allegations against the paedophile Brendan Smyth.
Monsignor Charles J Scicluna (pictured) defended Cardinal Sean Brady's role in secret interviews with a 14-year-old victim in 1975 in which he was told it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children.
The Vatican cleric, from the Holy See's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, claimed the Primate of All-Ireland had fulfilled his duties by referring information on child abuse to his seniors.
Three years ago when explosive allegations about Cardinal Brady's role in the canon inquiry into Smyth emerged he said he would resign if he found his actions or failings had led to another child being abused.
O'Gorman: Cardinal's defence 'just not good enough'
IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The founder of One in Four, Colm O'Gorman, has said that Cardinal Sean Brady's defence of his role in a 1975 abuse inquiry is "just not good enough".
Cardinal Brady responded today to allegations in a BBC documentary, saying it that a number of claims were made which seriously misrepresented his role in the 1975 church inquiry into Fr Brendan Smyth.
In a statement, Cardinal Brady highlighted a number of "important facts" to the programmes makers six weeks before the broadcast, most notably that the suggestion that he led the inquiry into the abuse allegations were "seriously misleading and untrue".
Cardinal Brady said that he was a "notary" at the meeting which was outlined in the programme, adding that even now the guidelines currently in place to ensure child protection in the Irish state make clear that the person "who first receives and records the details of an allegation of child abuse in an organisation that works with children, is not the person who has responsibility within that organisation for reporting the matter to the civil authorities".
Brady confronted over failure to protect children
IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
2 May 2012 Last updated at 08:37 ET
Cardinal Brady, the Catholic primate of all-Ireland has been challenged over allegations that he failed to protect children from sexual abuse by a paedophile priest.
A BBC documentary found he was aware of the names and addresses of children being abused by a paedophile priest, Brendan Smyth, but did not ensure their safety.
The church points out that in 1975, "no state or church guidelines for responding to allegations of child abuse existed in Ireland".
Cardinal Sean Brady defies calls to quit over abuse cover-up claims
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady has insisted he will not resign - saying his role in a 1975 investigation into paedophile Brendan Smyth had been exaggerated.
The Primate faced renewed demands to resign after it emerged a then 14-year-old victim of Smyth's warned him in secret interviews that it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children.
The Cardinal said his role in the inquiry has been deliberately exaggerated and misrepresented in a BBC documentary aired last night.
"I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused," he said.
New claims over Cardinal Brady's role in sex abuse inquiry
IRELAND
BBC News
A BBC investigation has uncovered fresh revelations about the role of the Catholic primate of all-Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, in the failure to protect children from child abuse.
The BBC's This World programme revealed he had the names and addresses of children who were being abused or were at risk of abuse by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth but failed to ensure they were being protected.
The investigation centres on a secret church inquiry in 1975 when a 14-year-old was questioned about abuse.
In 1975, Cardinal Brady was a priest and teacher in County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland, when he was sent by his bishop to investigate a claim of child sexual abuse by a fellow priest.
Brady under pressure as sex abuse victims talk of cover-up
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Greg Harkin
Tuesday May 01 2012
CHURCH leaders will come under renewed pressure when a BBC documentary is screened tonight outlining the widespread cover-up of clerical sex abuse here.
'This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church' is said to focus on Cardinal Sean Brady's role in an ecclesiastical investigation that led to the silencing of two victims of Fr Brendan Smyth.
Victims of paedophile priests in Co Donegal will also tell how the church failed to deal with complaints which allowed one cleric to continue to abuse more victims.
The broadcaster has refused to comment on the investigation by reporter Darragh Mac Intyre but BBC sources say the documentary has "powerful testimony" from abuse victims.
Brady 'betrayed' by officials over abuse
IRELAND
UTV
Published Wednesday, 02 May 2012
Cardinal Sean Brady has said he feels "betrayed" by the Church officials who had the authority to stop paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has claimed that officials failed to act on evidence he gave them about clerical child abuse - but he accepts that he "was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past".
Cardinal Brady released a statement on Wednesday following new claims that he failed to act on allegations of abuse made against Fr Brendan Smyth.
He said suggestions that he led the 1975 Church inquiry were "seriously misleading and untrue" and that he was asked by Bishop Francis McKiernan of the Diocese of Kilmore to assist senior officials "on a one-off basis only".
Cardinal Brady added that he acted only as a "note-taker" during the inquiry.
New allegations emerge on Brady's role in child sex abuse inquiry
IRELAND
TV3
New allegations have been made about Cardinal Sean Brady's role in a child sexual abuse inquiry in 1975.
In a BBC documentary, a man who was abused by paedophile priest Fr. Brendan Smyth as a child, claimed he told a church inquiry about other children who were at risk, but the allegations were not acted on.
The programme claimed that the parents of the children at the centre of the new allegations were never informed that they were at risk.
Cardinal Brady rocked by pervert cleric cover-up claims
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Greg Harkin
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Even 15 years after his death, the malign shadow of Fr Brendan Smyth still haunts the Catholic Church
Cardinal Sean Brady has insisted that he would not resign after fresh claims about his role in the cover-up of abuse by serial paedophile cleric Brendan Smyth.
Documents suggest that he was an investigator into paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth — and not a just a note taker.
The BBC allegations also include claims Cardinal Brady and the Church failed to pass on any warnings to other victims of Smyth, despite accepting the evidence of a victim.
Cardinal Brady profile
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By John Mulgrew
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Cardinal Sean Brady has been Primate of All Ireland since 1996 and in the last few years he has been forced to deal with the damaging fallout from two reports into clerical abuse within the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Two major reports into child sex abuse were published — the Ryan report, which looked at abuse within Catholic institution, and the Murphy report which examined a massive abuse cover-up in the Dublin diocese.
In 2010 it emerged that Cardinal Brady had been present when children signed vows of silence over allegations of abuse made against paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth in 1975.
He had previously apologised for his role in mishandling the case of the serial child abuser.
Brendan Smyth - the evil predator who sparked crisis in Church and State
IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Fergus Black
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Leering chillingly into the camera lens, the face is that of perhaps the country’s best-known and most notorious of paedophile priests.
The fallout from the controversy surrounding the case of serial sexual predator Fr Brendan Smyth continues to resound almost 15 years after his death.
A member of the Norbertine Order, Smyth’s litany of abuse going back to the 1940s led to the collapse of a government and the exposure of widespread clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Born in Belfast in 1927, Smyth joined the Norbertines in 1945, but decades would pass before his hidden life as one of the most notorious Irish clerical sex abusers was to be revealed.
Brady did not act on Smyth sex abuse claim says victim
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Greg Harkin and Independent.ie reporters
Wednesday May 02 2012
CARDINAL Sean Brady is expected to release a full statement later today after refusing to resign over fresh claims about his role in the cover-up of abuse by serial paedophile cleric Brendan Smyth.
Previously unseen documents suggest that he was an investigator into paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth -- and not a just a note taker.
Brendan Boland, from Co Louth, a victim of serial abuser Brendan Smyth, when he was just 12, told how information about his evil deeds was not passed onto parents of other victims by the inquiry team and two boys continued to be abused after the inquiry.
The allegations are made in a BBC documentary which also revealed that a hand-written note for a church inquiry into Smyth in 1975, at which the then Fr Brady was present, puts him in an investigative role.
Brady clear on child sex abuse claims – Vatican prosecutor
IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Lyndsey Telford
Wednesday May 02 2012
THE Vatican's chief investigator has insisted that Ireland's most senior cleric has no case to answer over renewed allegations of mishandling of allegations against the paedophile Brendan Smyth.
Monsignor Charles J Scicluna (pictured) defended Cardinal Sean Brady's role in secret interviews with a 14-year-old victim in 1975 in which he was told it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children.
The Vatican cleric, from the Holy See's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, claimed the Primate of All-Ireland had fulfilled his duties by referring information on child abuse to his seniors.
Three years ago when explosive allegations about Cardinal Brady's role in the canon inquiry into Smyth emerged he said he would resign if he found his actions or failings had led to another child being abused.
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