Bishop Eamon Casey - Child Abuse Allegations

GB said later he was a personal friend of Casey's - seems to have clouded his judgment.

I'm still trying to assess all of these developments about Eamon Casey from the documentary. I went to Galway Cathedral with my mum and aunt about 10 years ago & I went to mass in Westminster Catholic Church in London with my mum and a English woman as a kid about twenty years ago. I never met Eamon Casey in both of these locations when I was there.

Eamon Casey also gave some moral support to missionary priest Fr Niall O'Brien who was based in The Philippines when Fr. Niall was on trial for the murder of a local mayor in a town in the 70's/80's. I am not sure if Eamon Casey was going through his abuse of his niece at that time. If Fr Niall had known about these trends of abuse from Casey back then. He would have had administered a very different view of his relationship with Casey if he knew that Casey was a paedophile.

Bishop Martin Drennan was also the chief celebrant of my Confirmation mass in my local parish church in Dublin all the way back in 2002. It's good to know that he reprimanded Casey twice when he defied the rules of The Holy See while being present for a funeral mass in Limerick. However was that reprimand big enough to set a precedent for Eamon Casey to the probability of getting defrocked from the Vatican?

It was very alarming to see pictures of Casey still present for active duty within the Catholic Church after the Vatican had banned him from ministry as a result of his horrible crimes. The priests and bishops who attended his funeral in Galway in 2017 are not going to get away from Casey's whereabouts as a paedophile in their ranks within the Church.

They need to answer a lot of questions as to why they were officially present for his funeral mass that day by going through all of that effort of getting Casey buried in the crypt in Galway Cathedral when they should have known much more about his past. I would say a lot of these guys that went to that ceremony at that time are still in active duty within the church today. We need to hear their answers as to why all of this stuff was going on while under their watch. If they don't answer any questions on these matters immediately; it will paint them as enablers of abuse within the organisation.

Do they want that stuff resting on their conscience about potentially knowing how they went through the funeral ceremony of a well known pedo who was present within their ranks? I would say everyone in society who lives in this country would view that opinion with a very different light.

The church at this point had gone into terminal decline since Covid occurred a few years ago. These revelations about Eamon Casey from the documentary aired on RTÉ One on Monday night is going to make that steep fall in mass attendance much worse between now and in the future. Every allegation of child abuse that took place within the Catholic Church from now on is going to make it's status within this country a very uncomfortable thing to swallow as they go out on public record.

Nobody is going to ignore allegations of child abuse within the Catholic Church from now on. It's being spread out around the place like a never ending rash. Once they go out on public record; it will spark a new level of trauma for people in this country to try and deal with it. We as a country have to support the victims properly if they want to make them public from now on.

I agree that it does take special blinkers and warped rationalisation to continue pushing children into that criminal organisation. It's "cultural" seems to be the latest excuse.

Do they want that stuff resting on their conscience

These guys are far too invested in the "lifestyle" for that. House, car etc. The ones who had a conscience have left already.