IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Friday, 18 January 2013
The appointment of an assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Armagh marks the beginning of the end of Cardinal Sean Brady’s 48 years in the Catholic Church.
Well regarded as a teacher and from his time at the Irish College Rome, the religious leader is broadly considered a decent man.
But his clerical career will be forever clouded by his mishandling of a probe into predatory paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
Cardinal Brady has faced a clamour of calls for his resignation over the scandal after it emerged he failed to share allegations of child sex abuse from the 1970s with police and the victims’ parents.
He personally swore 14-year-old Brendan Boland to secrecy after interviewing him in the 1975 inquiry into the charges against Smyth. The teenager’s accusations, including names and addresses of other potential victims, were kept under wraps.
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