Cardinal Sean Brady

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Last night's BBC programme shed new light on Cardinal Sean Brady's role in the Brendan Smith scandal.

In the documentary, Mr Boland told reporter Darragh MacIntyre that in 1975 he also gave the internal church inquiry details of two other boys, one in Cavan and a second in Belfast, who were at risk from Fr Smyth.
The programme, called ''The Shame of the Catholic Church'', claimed that the abuse allegations were not brought to the attention of the families of those two boys.
The programme tracked down the Belfast boy at the centre of the new allegations.
He claimed that Fr Smyth went on to sexually abuse him for a further year after the internal church inquiry.
The man also told the programme makers that Fr Smyth sexually abused his sister over a seven-year period after the 1975 inquiry, and that the priest was abusing his cousins up to 1988.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0502/new-claims-over-bradys-role-in-abuse-inquiry.html

How this man can have the nerve to lecture about what people do in the bedroom is beyond me. Catholics must be so angry about this.

eviltwin

I don't think Catholics care...they will say "isn't it shocking" etc etc but its all lip service.

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He's just issued a statement blaming the culture of the time, wasn't his fault etc etc.

Unbelievable.

bookworms

I am not one bit surprised at this revelation. Another cover up. His spokesperson has issued a statement stating that his only duty was to record the details of the meeting and pass it onto his superior, therefore passing the responsibilty. How does he sleep at night?

PDN

Take it to the Clerical Child Abuse megathread please. One of them is enough.