IRELAND
Irish Independent
By DON LAVERY
Sunday May 06 2012
Vatican likely to appoint coadjutor bishop for top churchman under fire over documentary
CARDINAL Sean Brady — under increasing pressure over his failure as a priest to report child rape allegations to civil authorities — will effectively be replaced by a coadjutor bishop within months when Rome finally acts to deal with the latest fallout from the activities of notorious paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth.
Despite a week of unrelenting demands for Dr Brady to resign from Smyth’s victims, child abuse groups, politicians, and some clergy, the indications were yesterday that the cardinal has no intention of resigning, particularly as he will play a role in the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next month.
However, with just two years to go to his retirement age of 75, the Vatican, which will also consider reports from the Papal Nuncio’s office, is to appoint a coadjutor bishop this year who will be a successor to the cardinal.
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