Under-fire cardinal suffers snub from his own priests

IRELAND
Irish Independent

By Garry O’Sullivan

Friday May 18 2012

CARDINAL Sean Brady has suffered a new blow after the majority of priests in his diocese snubbed a meeting organised as a show of support for the embattled leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Just 20 of 150 priests in the Armagh Archdiocese invited to attend a prayer gathering in support of Dr Brady actually showed up — with many privately voicing concerns about his leadership.

The poor turn-out at the meeting is the most overt response by rank-and-file priests to new allegations surrounding Cardinal Brady’s handling of abuse allegations made against notorious paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth.

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