Cardinal Sean Brady aware of abuse in 1975

Min · 05-05-2012 3:04pm

FergusODowd wrote: »

No one is claiming Brady should have dealt out punishment.
There is no getting away from the fact that Brady was able to track down the other boys and interview them, and yet never bothered to ask permission from their parents, or to at least warn them to be careful. He deliberatively did not. No decent human being would do this, he could have at least given them a quiet warning to be careful, instead these kids went on to suffer abuse, while brady chose to skip up the ladder for being a good little sneaky side kick to his pathetic excuse of a bishop. Whatever about him being wrong at the time, he could at least admit 35 years later that he was wrong. How can you say this man is fit to be your leader ?

It is a pity the bishop of that time is dead as maybe he could have shone more light onto his role and that of the now Cardinal Brady.

genericguy · 05-05-2012 3:05pm

celticcrash wrote: »

Fergus you know in your heart and mind that that justice wont be served here.
So why call for it. Its just another smoke screen to keep him where he is.
Call a spade a spade, he is as guilty as that monster for raping kids.

I'd go as far as to say he is worse. By carrying on the way he did, he actually facilitated the rape of children. Anyone who attends that filthy scumbag's masses and doesn't lynch him needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

And min, as always, your attempts at spin are laughable.

FergusODowd · 05-05-2012 3:05pm

celticcrash wrote: »

Fergus you know in your heart and mind that that justice wont be served here.
So why call for it. Its just another smoke screen to keep him where he is.
Call a spade a spade, he is as guilty as that monster for raping kids.

You're not intrested in honest decent balanced justice, that's plain to be seen.
So as I said, I don't want to be associated with your tripe.

Min · 05-05-2012 3:06pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

It is spectacular how you keep not getting it. The only people with any authority to meet out punishment are the police force of the state who Brady and every other person in the room with terrified damaged kids had an obligation to inform.

I have never said the police shouldn't have been informed. They should have been, the buck stopped with the bishop.

FergusODowd · 05-05-2012 3:11pm

Min wrote: »

It is a pity the bishop of that time is dead as maybe he could have shone more light onto his role and that of the now Cardinal Brady.

That does not exonerate Brady, nor should it be trotted out to get him off the hook. You are not obliged to follow illegitimate, invalid, immoral orders from anyone, least of all an incompetant, prideful, vainglorius Bishop. Brady freely chose to do so for prideful vainglorious career reasons.

Never mind wheeling out and trying to hide behind dead bishops.

Brady can answer here and now, and do the decent thing here and now.

Odysseus · 05-05-2012 3:12pm

I will get a lot pf abuse for this, but in certain cases there are ethical questions to be considered. I have in the past reported sex offenders and may do so again if needed. Whilst in my HSE job I am required to [Childrens first act] in private practice I am not.

What it comes down to for me is whether we are dealing with something in the past vs ongoing; additioinally, the subject's willingness and ability to change needs to be considered.

A gent I was working with last year reported what you could call "playing doctors and nurses with his sister" when he was younger. He became unwell and was hospitalised, he told a psych nurse the same thing, the nurse reported him. After a year of being called in front of social workers it was deemed to be a non-starter. The point here is we need to be careful. This man was not more a sex offender than Barney [he had brough up a family since then, with no sexual thoughts towards his children], but he almost ended up on the sex offenders list.

Anyway my point is reporting is not always clear cut. A chap I currently work with was abused repeatedly by his mother, should I report her? If I do my client will stop seeing me, resulting in his recovery being stopped.

celticcrash · 05-05-2012 3:20pm

FergusODowd wrote: »

You're not intrested in honest decent balanced justice, that's plain to be seen.
So as I said, I don't want to be associated with your tripe.

There is no honest decent balanced justice in this banana republic so dont pretend there is.
Your just another rightous patronising fool who likes to gob off.

FergusODowd · 05-05-2012 3:26pm

celticcrash wrote: »

There is no honest decent balanced justice in this banana republic so dont pretend there is.
Your just another rightous patronising fool who likes to gob off.

Thankfully people like you don't make up the majority of ordinary decent Irish people, and thankfully the majority are not going to give the country up to your vision.

Biggins · 05-05-2012 5:26pm

FergusODowd wrote: »

Why should they ?

If he has a case to answer then they should be forced to do their duty, otherwise they are just as bad.

You will get no argument from me.

celticcrash · 05-05-2012 7:20pm

FergusODowd wrote: »

Thankfully people like you don't make up the majority of ordinary decent Irish people, and thankfully the majority are not going to give the country up to your vision.

And now your the spokesperson for the the majority of ordinary decent Irish people.
The majority of ordinary decent Irish people know that there is no honest decent balanced justice in this country.
If you dont like freedom of speech than dont come on here calling peoples posts tripe.
If you dont like how people express themselves, just say so and move on with out trying to belittle their posts.
And you only speak for yourself on boards.ie and not for the majority.
Keep your ego in check.

FergusODowd · 05-05-2012 10:00pm

celticcrash wrote: »

And now your the spokesperson for the the majority of ordinary decent Irish people.
The majority of ordinary decent Irish people know that there is no honest decent balanced justice in this country.
If you dont like freedom of speech than dont come on here calling peoples posts tripe.
If you dont like how people express themselves, just say so and move on with out trying to belittle their posts.
And you only speak for yourself on boards.ie and not for the majority.
Keep your ego in check.

A good example of the usually hypocrisy from the people who come on here inciting hatred.

Corkfeen · 05-05-2012 11:32pm

FergusODowd wrote: »

A good example of the usually hypocrisy from the people who come on here inciting hatred.

While there have been a few questionable posts. The fact is that Brady was aiding a Paedophile by failing to tell parents of those being abused of what had occurred and the general cover up of the abuse. This was a disturbingly immoral choice by a man and an organisation who were supposed to be an authority on morality. And it endangered children as a result of their failures.

So yes, I can't see how people can legitimately choose to follow a religious organisation that has engaged in cover ups of child abuse etc. And as well, Catholicism as an organisation regularly incites hatred, people who engage in homosexual behaviour are doomed to burn in hell alongside those who masturbate and fornicate (although they place particular emphasis on the homosexuality). But for some reason the Catholic Church endorsed cover-ups are perfectly acceptable by their logic and there was no fault on their part.

Zebra3 · 05-05-2012 11:37pm

Corkfeen wrote: »

So yes, I can't see how people can legitimately choose to follow a religious organisation that has engaged in cover ups of child abuse etc.

+1.

How can people continue to enroll their kids in an organisation like that? Wtf?

Min · 06-05-2012 12:01am

Zebra3 wrote: »

+1.

How can people continue to enroll their kids in an organisation like that? Wtf?

They are doing is despite the failings of the church, when one takes away the human failings there are a lot of people on this planet who get a lot of positivity from their Catholic faith.
Their faith is not based on human failings, it is based on fundamental beliefs that go above the clergy.
This is why parents continue to teach their children the faith they have gotten a lot of good from. No Catholic is happy how the abuse was handled.

mrsdewinter · 06-05-2012 12:02am

Odysseus wrote: »

I will get a lot pf abuse for this, but in certain cases there are ethical questions to be considered. I have in the past reported sex offenders and may do so again if needed. Whilst in my HSE job I am required to [Childrens first act] in private practice I am not.

What it comes down to for me is whether we are dealing with something in the past vs ongoing; additioinally, the subject's willingness and ability to change needs to be considered.

A gent I was working with last year reported what you could call "playing doctors and nurses with his sister" when he was younger. He became unwell and was hospitalised, he told a psych nurse the same thing, the nurse reported him. After a year of being called in front of social workers it was deemed to be a non-starter. The point here is we need to be careful. This man was not more a sex offender than Barney [he had brough up a family since then, with no sexual thoughts towards his children], but he almost ended up on the sex offenders list.

Anyway my point is reporting is not always clear cut. A chap I currently work with was abused repeatedly by his mother, should I report her? If I do my client will stop seeing me, resulting in his recovery being stopped.

You are coming from a professional background with, I'm guessing, years of training and experience. Fr Brady was coming from a background of no particular expertise in psychological and/or sexual trauma.
Surely a man working in a pastoral setting would have said to himself, 'Blimey, I'm in way over my head here - I'm not even sure that my line manager (the relevant bishop/head of the order) will know the correct course of action to take. Maybe I should take this to the RUC/ a health professional...'
I know I'm guilty of projecting the values of 2012 onto a situation that occurred 37 years ago here, but how disconnected from your own humanity would you have to be for that impulse not to strike you every once in a while over the years that followed? Say, when Smyth's name began cropping up again and again?

Zebra3 · 06-05-2012 3:03am

Min wrote: »

They are doing is despite the failings of the church, when one takes away the human failings there are a lot of people on this planet who get a lot of positivity from their Catholic faith.
Their faith is not based on human failings, it is based on fundamental beliefs that go above the clergy.
This is why parents continue to teach their children the faith they have gotten a lot of good from. No Catholic is happy how the abuse was handled.

All the teachings are decided by people who protected child rapists.

Min · 06-05-2012 5:04am

Zebra3 wrote: »

All the teachings are decided by people who protected child rapists.

So when I was taught the teachings of the ten commandments it was a person who abused minors that decided it?
Who was this person and what was their role in the abuse?

Doctor Jimbob · 06-05-2012 5:43am

Min wrote: »

They are doing is despite the failings of the church, when one takes away the human failings there are a lot of people on this planet who get a lot of positivity from their Catholic faith.
Their faith is not based on human failings, it is based on fundamental beliefs that go above the clergy.
This is why parents continue to teach their children the faith they have gotten a lot of good from. No Catholic is happy how the abuse was handled.

There are a lot of people who get positivity from their catholic faith. This is a good thing. That doesn't mean they should stand up for catholic leaders who are defending and covering up vile crimes. In any other organisation, members would be calling for the leaders responsible to be removed. They can stand by their faith without standing by the criminals within the organisation.
Also child rape and covering it up is not a human failing, it's a disgusting crime. There's fuck all human about it.

Zebra3 · 06-05-2012 6:22am

Min wrote: »

So when I was taught the teachings of the ten commandments it was a person who abused minors that decided it?
Who was this person and what was their role in the abuse?

The protectors of child rapists who currently run the RC church decide that the ten commandments are part of their teachings.

Duh. :rolleyes:

Min · 06-05-2012 7:27am

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

There are a lot of people who get positivity from their catholic faith. This is a good thing. That doesn't mean they should stand up for catholic leaders who are defending and covering up vile crimes. In any other organisation, members would be calling for the leaders responsible to be removed. They can stand by their faith without standing by the criminals within the organisation.
Also child rape and covering it up is not a human failing, it's a disgusting crime. There's fuck all human about it.

I think you will find humans are the people who do the crimes, therefore human failing. It is not our cats or dogs that are failing us by abusing us.

Min · 06-05-2012 7:30am

Zebra3 wrote: »

The protectors of child rapists who currently run the RC church decide that the ten commandments are part of their teachings.

Duh. :rolleyes:

I think you will find they come from the bible and from God to Moses and that the old testament is a part of Christianity. The new testament didn't make the old testament disappear.

Doctor Jimbob · 06-05-2012 7:32am

Min wrote: »

I think you will find humans are the people who do the crimes, therefore human failing. It is not our cats or dogs that are failing us by abusing us.

My point was it's a lot more than just a failing.

Min · 06-05-2012 7:35am

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

My point was it's a lot more than just a failing.

But a crime is a failing.

Biggins · 06-05-2012 12:07pm

From todays Times (England)
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/News/article1032698.ece#standard-comments

A few excerpts:

Cardinal Seán Brady is being sued by a man who was sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth while he attended a school where Brady was teaching. The abuse is alleged to have happened after Brady was involved in secret canonical inquiries in 1975, in which the cardinal deemed accounts given by two teenage boys of abuse to be “credible”.

...a spokesman for Brady, who is the archbishop of Armagh and primate of all-Ireland, said he “will be defending any allegation of negligence”.

He would!

The High Court case was initiated after Brady’s role in the canonical inquiry was revealed two years ago. Brady is being sued for personal negligence in three sets of proceedings. Asked if any of the plaintiffs in those cases were children identified by Boland in the inquiry 37 years ago, Brady’s spokesman said: “The diocese has received claims on behalf of people who appear to be similarly named.”

So two of the names people that was on a list given to him, started to sue him two years ago.
This then backs up the victim on the BBC programme that stated such a list existed and that they were abused.

Then there is this latest shocker!

Oliver McShane, a former Dominican priest who attended the church inquiry in Dundalk, has told The Sunday Times that church officials told gardai in 1991 that no such inquiry had taken place.

“In 1991, gardai in Dundalk asked the London Metropolitan police’s child protection unit to take a statement from me,” said McShane, who has now left the priesthood and lives abroad. “I told them about the inquiry as part of my statement.

“The detective heading the inquiry in Dundalk rang me a couple of months later saying the church was denying the inquiry happened. I said I would come over to Ireland and swear on the Bible it did,” said McShane, who was the priest in whom Boland confided about Smyth’s abuse and who accompanied the boy when he informed his parents about what he had suffered.

So now it emerges that the church also openly lied to the police!

There you have it.
An absolute no moral, two faced org that has no moral authority in Ireland any more to preach to us - when in fact they are just as bad, if not worse!

No wonder they are backing Brady now. Birds of a feather are sticking together!

paddyzk · 06-05-2012 12:11pm

Scum.

K-9 · 06-05-2012 12:12pm

Wonder what Fr, D'Arcy will say about this................oh wait.

Weren't long acting with him when it suited.

Bobeagleburger · 06-05-2012 12:16pm

It's shocking that this guy still holds his position.

Show Time · 06-05-2012 12:20pm

Send the lot of them back to Rome and sell off all their wealth and property in the country.

That would go a long way to paying off the debts the country has and at long last the church could be seen doing some real good before we kick them out the door.

tayto lover · 06-05-2012 12:24pm

rarnes1 wrote: »

It's shocking that this guy still holds his position.

He will resign soon I believe. The pressure is on. He is in charge of an organisation which is seeing it's numbers in decline worldwide, it's mass attendances decline and it's authority being challenged because of incidents like this.
Had they came out and held their hands up and said we are doing our best to rid ourselves of abusive priests then they would have probably remained intact. But they chose to deny, cover-up and hide under the protection of Cannon Law.
By doing this they have let down the good priests, bishops etc and indeed their flock. Pride comes before a fall.

Bobeagleburger · 06-05-2012 12:26pm

He should be resigned years ago, he'll try and hold out I'd imagine.

Show Time · 06-05-2012 12:28pm

tayto lover wrote: »

He will resign soon I believe. The pressure is on. He is in charge of an organisation which is seeing it's numbers in decline worldwide, it's mass attendances decline and it's authority being challenged because of incidents like this.
Had they came out and held their hands up and said we are doing our best to rid ourselves of abusive priests then they would have probably remained intact. But they chose to deny, cover-up and hide under the protection of Cannon Law.
By doing this they have let down the good priests, bishops etc and indeed their flock. Pride comes before a fall.

What very few good ones can head out to Africa and do good out there.

This country has to move beyond the superstitious nonsense they have been peddling for so long.

My name is URL · 06-05-2012 12:35pm

rarnes1 wrote: »

He should be resigned years ago, he'll try and hold out I'd imagine.

There's a good chance that he has considered resigning already, but it's up to that lizard in the Vatican to decide whether or not to accept it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0503/1224315512548.html

Bobeagleburger · 06-05-2012 12:36pm

My name is URL wrote: »

There's a good chance that he has considered resigning already, but it's up to that lizard in the Vatican to decide whether or not to accept it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0503/1224315512548.html

They're afraid pressure will come on guys higher up the chain I'd imagine.

Biggins · 06-05-2012 12:37pm

tayto lover wrote: »

He will resign soon I believe...

Mark my words, they will PR spin it.

He will leave the office he holds after some time for "reflection" or some other drawn up PR excuse.

Just like a very recent Chinese dissident who might be allowed leave China for "study" (I hope he gets his wife and kid out too) and that reason being spun for the masses, the Rome Org will dream up some light excuse genuine reason for he stepping away - not down they will hope not to make it look like - from the power position he no longer has the moral right to hold.

tayto lover · 06-05-2012 12:58pm

Biggins wrote: »

Mark my words, they will PR spin it.

He will leave the office he holds after some time for "reflection" or some other drawn up PR excuse.

Just like a very recent Chinese dissident who might be allowed leave China for "study" (I hope he gets his wife and kid out too) and that reason being spun for the masses, the Rome Org will dream up some light excuse genuine reason for he stepping away - not down they will hope not to make it look like - from the power position he no longer has the moral right to hold.

At the moment Brady is actively putting in place Child Protection regulations for the Catholic Church. No expense spared. Maybe his conscience is at him or maybe he actually feels that he did his best or what was required of him back in 1975.
The stable door was left open and the horse has bolted it seems. It won't save him.

StudentDad · 06-05-2012 1:37pm

tayto lover wrote: »

At the moment Brady is actively putting in place Child Protection regulations for the Catholic Church. No expense spared. Maybe his conscience is at him or maybe he actually feels that he did his best or what was required of him back in 1975.
The stable door was left open and the horse has bolted it seems. It won't save him.

Maybe he could walk the full length of the Camino barefoot and in rags with a sign around his neck - 'Cardinal of Lies'

SD

steddyeddy · 06-05-2012 2:08pm

What gets me is that brady said he fufilled his role and did all that was required of him but a 14 year old boy had the courage and the morality to try and warn the other parents. He knew what to so and the boy who is now an adult told the other victims of brady that he tried to save him.

He didnt even think to warn other parents about smyth. Imagine if you knew that someone molested kids and you knew they were going to be in contact with more children and you did nothing?

Blowfish · 06-05-2012 2:28pm

tayto lover wrote: »

He will resign soon I believe. The pressure is on. He is in charge of an organisation which is seeing it's numbers in decline worldwide, it's mass attendances decline and it's authority being challenged because of incidents like this.
Had they came out and held their hands up and said we are doing our best to rid ourselves of abusive priests then they would have probably remained intact. But they chose to deny, cover-up and hide under the protection of Cannon Law.
By doing this they have let down the good priests, bishops etc and indeed their flock. Pride comes before a fall.

Canon Law is set in place to (supposedly) be the law guiding the ultimate authority of the Catholic Church. Brady followed it to the letter and yet it allowed abuse to continue. If they allow Brady to resign, it's effectively an admission on the Churches part that Canon Law is flawed/incorrect and thus their own authority (moral and otherwise) is undermined.

Given that, I wouldn't underestimate their willingness to place the protection of their own authority above actually choosing the moral choice.

StudentDad · 06-05-2012 2:32pm

Blowfish wrote: »

Canon Law is set in place to (supposedly) be the law guiding the ultimate authority of the Catholic Church. Brady followed it to the letter and yet it allowed abuse to continue. If they allow Brady to resign, it's effectively an admission on the Churches part that Canon Law is flawed/incorrect and thus their own authority (moral and otherwise) is undermined.

Given that, I wouldn't underestimate their willingness to place the protection of their own authority above actually choosing the moral choice.

Canon Law is wholly and completely irrelevant. When will the RC Church accept this? The only place it has relevance is within the bounds of the Vatican City State - nowhere else!

SD

awec · 06-05-2012 3:52pm

At the end of the day, Brady gave priority to the internal structure and protection of the Catholic Church's image over the protection of young children he knew were being abused.

No matter how they try to spin it, it's all irrelevant. By his own admission he is guilty.

Him resigning does not go far enough.

There really is no way to defend the indefensible. It's absolutely sick that certain quarters are trying to excuse what he has done purely because it's the church.

Mr.Wemmick · 06-05-2012 3:54pm

I wonder if the Church does not want Brady forced out under pressure.
In his position as Cardinal, primate of all Ireland and seeing as he was a canon lawyer for years, it is quite possible that he has documentation of other reports or correspondence received over the years regarding Pedophile priests dating back years.. and being privy to this info, he must be in a very powerful position. Hence why the vatican are treated him so gently, nothing else makes sense. Brady looks very petulant going by the photos and film shots seen of him recently - like a child, ready to explode.

Not suprising then if the Irish Catholic Church has a lot of paper work, correspondence and written proof, Brady is being mollycoddled by the Vatican.

Zebra3 · 06-05-2012 5:16pm

Min wrote: »

I think you will find they come from the bible and from God to Moses and that the old testament is a part of Christianity. The new testament didn't make the old testament disappear.

There was tons of crap in the bible. The RC church cut a huge amount of it out and decided what crap would be left in.

They (the protectors of child rapists) decide what the teachings are.

Wakey, wakey.

true · 06-05-2012 6:32pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

Imagine if you knew that someone molested kids and you knew they were going to be in contact with more children and you did nothing?

or just transfered him to another parish or the missions....and got little boy victims to swear on the bible not to tell anyone except certain priests. Sick.

tayto lover · 06-05-2012 10:05pm

true wrote: »

or just transfered him to another parish or the missions....and got little boy victims to swear on the bible not to tell anyone except certain priests. Sick.

I am beginning to wonder if they believe in God at all or is it just a convenient thing for them. Being religious is supposed to be about compassion but there was none shown to the victims or their parents.

Zebra3 · 06-05-2012 10:17pm

tayto lover wrote: »

I am beginning to wonder if they believe in God at all or is it just a convenient thing for them. Being religious is supposed to be about compassion but there was none shown to the victims or their parents.

They believe in the power they have from the positions they hold within that corrupt, criminal organisation.

tayto lover · 06-05-2012 10:21pm

Zebra3 wrote: »

They believe in the power they have from the positions they hold within that corrupt, criminal organisation.

But there are many many good people in that organisation too. It's unfortunate for them as they now become victims of their faith through no fault of their own. The power is at the top and self preservation is of the utmost importance to them because they love that power.

true · 07-05-2012 4:27pm

Zebra3 wrote: »

They believe in the power they have from the positions they hold within that corrupt, criminal organisation.

They had amazing arrogance not just corrupting children but then transfering Priests in question sideways to another parish or to the missions, and covering up the abuse / not allowing it to be told to even the parents.

awec · 07-05-2012 4:55pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17981898

"Bishop Donal McKeown criticises politicians over Cardinal Brady response"

Just how detached from reality are this lot? Trying to paint Brady as some sort of victim?!

You couldn't make it up. :rolleyes:

Pushtrak · 07-05-2012 6:03pm

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/07/sex-abuse-documentary-threatens-to-topple-head-of-irelands-catholic-church/

Rome, of course, has an agenda. The 50th annual International Eucharistic Congress takes place in Ireland from June 10-17. Held every four years, it’s a massive gathering of clergy and laity meant to reaffirm the role of Catholicism in the world. Should Brady bow to pressure, it would cast a huge shadow over the event. Furthermore, senior clergy in other parts of the world face similar calls to resign. If Brady falls, it might spark a chain reaction of forced resignations that would embarrass the church. Finally, the Vatican wants to protect its role as an institution above the state. It cannot risk the appearance of kowtowing to politicians or the media.

Boland, the abuse victim who features prominently in the BBC documentary, now lives in London. Speaking to the Irish Times, he said he avoids contact with men of the cloth. “I have had such a bad experience with priests that I can’t talk to any of them. I know there are some good ones, but I can’t tell who is good and who is not good.” What he does know, however, is that the hierarchy within the church should never dictate doing what’s right. He rejects Brady’s defense that the church lacked guidelines for reporting abuse to civil authorities and parents. “I was only 14 years of age,” he said. “I knew it was wrong.”

Pushtrak · 07-05-2012 7:45pm

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0507/1224315687835.html

There were mixed views among the faithful outside the cathedral. Some would not offer any comments apart from criticising the media for covering the issue. Others felt he had failed children who were abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, while others again felt fault lay not with him but with superiors to whom he reported the abuse in 1975.

An elderly lady leaving the cathedral felt that Cardinal Brady should remain as primate. “I don’t think it was his fault. He did what he was asked to do and reported all that information to his bishop. It was the bishop’s fault.” She added: “I like the man; he is a good, humble man.”

Another elderly woman said simply that she felt sorry for Cardinal Brady. “I am sure he is suffering over all this. I pray for him every day.”

Alan Henry, a native of Letterkenny, Co Donegal but living in Armagh for the past 10 years said Cardinal Brady should have said something to the parents and to the police in 1975. “I have nothing against the fellow. In fact I have never even spoken to the man but I think he should offer to stand down.”

A middle-aged man said Cardinal Brady had made a “bad mistake” in how he handled the information that Smyth was abusing boys and girls. “He should have gone to the authorities at the time.” But he too said he felt sorry for the Cardinal. “He should never have accepted the job of primate.”

Cardinal Sean Brady aware of abuse in 1975

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