IRELAND
Irish Independent
DAVID QUINN – 11 OCTOBER 2013
If a bishop ought to resign for failing to pass on information about child abusers to police, then what about major public figures such as Gerry Adams?
Four bishops have resigned over child protection failings in the last few years, namely Brendan Comiskey, Donal Murray, Jim Moriarty and John Magee.
In the case of Jim Moriarty and Donal Murray, they were not even in charge of child protection policy at the time the failures took place. They were assistant (that is, ‘auxiliary’) bishops in the archdiocese of Dublin.
Jim Moriarty resigned because he came to the view that he had failed to challenge a miserably deficient child protection system.
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