Pope asks Irish bishops for honesty and courage to deal with sex abuse crisis

The pope summoned Irish Bishops to put an end to the child abuse scandal that involved Irish priest and a cover up.

Benedict XVI has called on them to confront the scandal with honesty and courage to ensure these crimes dont repeat themselves.

Card. Sean Brady (Ireland)
President of the Irish Episcopal Conference
Pope Benedict has said, the heart of this, is a renewal of faith because faith ultimately is the real and true protector of human dignity and that is the dignity of every human being.

The scandal involves child molestation cases that were made public after the release of two governmental reports last year. According to the Ryan Report, members of the clergy were involved in more than 1500 abuse cases that dated back to the 1930s. While the Murphy Report revealed 325 similar cases involving priests between 1975 and 2004.

The Murphy Report, cited some of the bishops and authorities covered up the crimes in an effort to avoid a scandal. In fact, 4 bishops who admitted to their lack of leadership presented their resignation letters in December.


Over the last two days, the Irish Bishops and the pope met behind closed doors. The bishops gave their take on the crimes. One of the issues raised was how Canon Law is a long and slow process.

The bishops also promised the pope they would collaborate with civil authorities to bring these cases to justice.

P. Federico Lombardi
Vatican Spokesperson
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They also emphasized their commitment to cooperation with the statutory authorities in Ireland North and South and with the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland to guarantee that the Churchs standards, policies and procedures represent best practice in this area.

During the meeting with the pope, the bishops also got a look at the Pope Benedict XVIs pastoral letter hes drafting to the Irish Church. The letter addresses how to combat the issue and how to make sure these crimes dont happen again.

Bishop Denis Brennan
Diocese of Ferns (Ireland)
1:57:06 Primarily it is geared toward the victims but it does understand that this has grown to such great proportions it affects the whole country so all different levels of Irish society, its become a national issue.

Card. Sean Brady (Ireland)
President of the Irish Episcopal Conference
12126 As one of the victims told us the only way we will regain that credibility would be through our humiliation that is what we are set out to do, tomorrow is the beginning of Lent and time of penance and we must begin with ourselves.


The pope will include some of the points raised by the bishops during the last two days in his letter. The letter is expected to be published before Easter.

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[zts78zt]

Fire bishop Vlazny Portland Or USA. Stop this drunk bishop and his blond lady lawyer.

[zts78zt]

In a pastoral letter he blamed chapter11 of the diocese on the victims. In 2007 he proposes that names of the victims should be public knowledge.The real danger here are not the victims but the pedophile priests that he continues to pay them and protect them. Bishop Vlazny makes the Church looks bad. Thank you for your input.

[Joe80751]

Don't the clowns in the hierarchy know they are felons for raping children or covering up for those that did. And get this...felons belong in prison. I hope Ratzinger gets a cell with Bubba and then Ratzinger will get a clue what the kids went thru from the priests. What a bunch of phoney bastards that make up the Catholic hierarchy.

[libramadchen]

Roger (the Dodger) Vangheluwe and Walter (Mixed-Up) Mixa owned up, - and now there's talk about Fernando (the Saint) Karadima involved in some hanky-panky.

I'm suprised all the noisy Cath-defenders have suddenly gone silent.

It's hard to spew bullsh*t excuses when the pervs themselves start confessing, right?

[libramadchen]

in the name of our 3-in-1 god, pls bless our nazi pope, our falling-apart church and whoever's still in it. These sex scandals were created by the green fellows from "Mars Attacks!" who bear a slight resemblance to our pope. Their original plans to do this in 2000 failed, cos their calendars were not synchronized with ours. We will defend ourselves with our army of priests, who have been trained in the Art of Abuse & Molestation, so send us your kids, you filthy Martians, you!!!

[scottmdy40]

Bomb the Vatican and Ireland while we are at it since they are full of fags spouting all there crap about faith and being open about this scandal. This is nothing new, they been butt screwing lil boys for last two thousands years. The Irish priest are some of the worse fags on this planet and all the bishops are doing right now is deleting their BOY porn off there computers and at least the media has finally caught them with their pricks out and all they are doing is going uhhhh & ohhhh

[scottmdy40]

Rome is full of perverts that like to screw little boys in the butt & all the media has done is exposed them everytime they do it! So blame the media............. Ha tell the priest to stop bending little kids over and ramming the up the butt with their you know what! Filthy * sick perverts and I hope they burn in hell. Hope the church in Rome falls finally for once in all

[scottmdy40]

Has anyone see the newest headlines here in USA... it reads this "Connecticut bishops fight sex abuse bill " figures the bishops would fight to protect the faggot asses, I hope they pass it in all the states. Thank goodness I am not a catholic because I would of been screwed in the butt by a bishop when I was young, its sick how they cover it up and keep these priest in the churches so the can screw more boys in the ass. Shit head pervs and is so gross that they let them keep screwing boys

[libramadchen]

@priest008 - abuse by the clergy has been going on since the founding of the church, - so what was that argument about "the media is responsible for sexual promotions in today's society", again? Care to explain? Or are you gonna keep on spinning and play the blame-game?

[libramadchen]

@12buhbauy0987 - .......and you actually BELIEVE that crap you wote?? Wow!