Leading Irish Catholic priest: Child sex-abuse scandal 'goes right to the top in Rome'

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http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Leading-Priest-calls-for-bishops-to-resign-over-Murphy-Report-78084927.html


Fallout spreads in Ireland from Church scandal


One of Ireland's best-loved priests, Father Brian D'Arcy, has called for the resignation of clergy who knowingly covered up for child sex-abuse priests.

Five bishops who once served in the Dublin Archdiocese when the abuse was taking place and took no action have faced resignation calls over the Murphy Report, which found child sex-abuse rampant.

D'Arcy, a well-known media figure and commentator, said the findings of the Murphy Report were "absolutely sickening." And he said that when he served on the Council of Priests in Dublin during the 1990s, he never even "heard a hint" of accusations of abuse

"This is not just in the Diocese, this goes right to the top in Rome," he said.

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"Yesterday, I just felt physically sick. This morning I have to get up and I try to read it again and I still felt physically sick and I still am physically sick having read the kind of abuse that was perpetrated on innocent children by people who, in a sense were colleagues of mine, because I did spend quite a number of years working within the Dublin Archdiocese in Mount Argus."

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Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza has given an assurance that Pope Benedict is committed to rooting out the Irish pedophile priest problem.

He said Benedict had "told all the Irish bishops during their meeting with him" in Rome of his abhorrence of child sexual abuse.
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its impossible to believe the pope

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. The pedophile scandal within the Catholic Church

has been a horrific story all the way around. The Bishop is exactly right about demanding that priests and others that knew of these activities and did nothing or tried to hide it should resign. No amount of confession will wipe that sin away.