IRELAND
Irish Central
By
CATHY HAYES,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Sunday, May 6, 2012,
Young and old alike were signing a national petition launched on Friday by concerned local people in Donegal calling on Cardinal Sean Brady to resign from his post as Primate of All Ireland.
The online version of the petition has already been by people within Ireland, but also in England, Spain and the United States. Aside from individual concerns, no specific organization or group was behind the initiative, which comes at a time of social and spiritual uncertainty in the county and the country.
Entitled the “Peoples’ Petition,” the campaign was launched in the town of Falcarragh in the western part of the county, an area where multiple instances of child sex abuse by priests has taken place over the years, especially at the hands of convicted pedophile and former priest Eugene Green, found to have abused more than 26 children.
Sean Hillen one of the leaders behind the initiative, explained the reason for what he termed the “Peoples’ Petition.”
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