{"id":4032,"date":"2010-04-22T19:46:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2010-04-22T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:43:59","slug":"looking-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/looking-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"looking in the mirror…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope accepts resignation of third Irish bishop<\/a>
Reuters <\/strong>
April 22, 2010<\/div>\n

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to three the number of Irish bishops who have stepped down due to the sexual abuse crisis. Moriarty tendered his resignation in December, after an official report named him among Church leaders in the Dublin archdiocese who had covered up cases of child sex abuse by priests for 30 years. He was auxiliary bishop of Dublin from 1991 until his appointment as bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 2002. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of cases of sexual and physical abuse of youths in recent decades by priests have come to light in Europe and the United States in the last month as disclosures encourage long-silent victims to finally go public with their complaints. Pope Benedict, under criticism from victims for not taking more energetic steps to counter the sex abuse scandal, pledged Wednesday that the Roman Catholic Church would take action. <\/p>\n

In a statement released in Ireland, Moriarty said he was part of the Dublin hierarchy "prior to when correct child protection policies and procedures were implemented." "I accept that from the time I became an auxiliary bishop, I should have challenged the prevailing culture," he said. "I apologize to all survivors and their families." <\/p>\n

Two other bishops named in the report have also offered to resign, but the Vatican has not yet announced any decision in their cases. Cardinal Sean Brady, the primate of Ireland, has come under heavy pressure to resign because he was involved in having abuse victims sign secrecy agreements decades ago. He has said he would not step down… <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Catholic bishops apologise for abuse scandal<\/a>
AFP <\/strong>
By Andrew Bushe
April 22, 2010 <\/div>\n

DUBLIN — The abuse scandal that has swept through the Catholic Church in Europe cost the head of an Irish bishop Thursday as its leaders in England and Wales offered a full apology to victims. Irish bishop James Moriarty apologised to those who suffered child abuse committed by priests after his resignation was formally accepted by Pope Benedict XVI, and admitted he should have challenged a culture of secrecy. In a significant day in the scandal, the leaders of the five million Roman Catholics in England and Wales said the crimes had brought "deep shame" to the whole Catholic Church and there were "no excuses" for paedophile priests…<\/p>\n

Moriarty, the bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, had offered to stand down in December in the wake of a damning investigation into the Church’s role in covering up abuse over three decades in predominantly Catholic Ireland. Moriarty, who was auxiliary bishop of Dublin from 1991 to 2002, said although he was not directly criticised in the report by judge Yvonne Murphy, "renewal must begin with accepting responsibility for the past". "Again I accept that from the time I became an auxiliary bishop, I should have challenged the prevailing culture. Once more I apologise to all survivors and their families," he said.<\/p>\n

The investigation found Church leaders in the Dublin archdiocese failed to report abuse to police until the 1990s as part of a culture of secrecy and an over-riding wish to avoid damaging the reputation of the Catholic Church. One priest admitted to sexually abusing more than 100 children, while another confessed he had abused children on a fortnightly basis over 25 years. The report came after another landmark study which horrified Ireland by revealing widespread sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in Catholic-run institutions dating back to the 1930s…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I had pretty much given up reading about the Catholic Church’s crisis around the issue of pedophillic priests. It was just too upsetting to read night after night about how the church was under attack by evil forces or how there was nothing to get upset about. But then I ran across these articles about Bishop James Moriarty. Not only did he resign, he apologized. But even more than that, he apologized for the right thing, "I accept that from the time I became an auxiliary bishop, I should have challenged the prevailing culture.<\/font><\/strong>"<\/div>\n

I believe it’s the first time that I’ve heard any of them address the center of the thing. There was<\/u> a  culture, a prevailing culture, that covered up for abusive priests.  And even though there was such a culture, a person of integrity should’ve stood up to that culture and said, "No!"<\/p>\n

These higher ups in the church knew what they were doing, and kept on doing it anyway. Bishop Moriarty seems to see that and is doing the right thing. I’d almost expect the Pope to decline his resignation and say, "No, you’re the kind we want to keep – people who can honestly look at their own part in things." But I guess I’d be expecting more from the Pope than he seems to have [since he can’t seem to be appropriately introspective himself]. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pope accepts resignation of third Irish bishop Reuters April 22, 2010 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to three the number of Irish bishops who have stepped down due to the sexual abuse crisis. Moriarty tendered his resignation in December, after an official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}