Letter Responding to a Letter from "Bernie" and "Seamus"

By Archbishop Cahal B. Daly
February 11, 1991

Dear [redacted]

(I cannot be sure that this is the correct name, but I hope that the letter will reach your address). There have been complaints about this priest before and once I had to speak to the Superior about him. It would seem that there has been no improvement. I shall speak with the Superior again.

I am very sorry for the distress which your family had been experiencing and I hope that the problem can be solved quickly and that you will have no further interference.

Asking God to bless you and with all kind wishes,

Yours sincerely,
+Cahal B. Daly.
Archbishop of Armagh

[Note from BishopAccountability.org: This letter was scanned from Chris Moore, Betrayal of Trust: The Father Brendan Smyth Affair and the Catholic Church (Dublin: Marino Books, 1995), p. 147. Paragraph breaks and "Dear" were added on the basis of an image of the original letter, included in Moore's Suffer Little Children. A still of that image is supplied above.]