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CARDINAL SEÁN BRADY has said he is “truly sorry” to abuse survivors following the publication of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church’s review of practices in the Archdiocese of Armagh.
“The Review finds that this diocese is fully committed to safeguarding children and young people. Nevertheless, my first thoughts today are with those who were abused,” he said in a statement. ”
“I know that for you, survivors of abuse and your families, days such as today are especially difficult. You have suffered terribly and I am truly sorry. I pray for you and will work to ensure that you are supported on your journey towards healing and peace.”
He claimed that ‘vigilance’ continues to be the watchword in all Church activities.
Recognising that past practices failed children, he said:
While we acknowledge the report’s findings that in the past the response was not as prompt, robust and coordinated as in the present, we will continue to do all we can to ensure that current high standards of safeguarding practice are maintained. As I have already stated, we must remain attentive and vigilant. Our children, and especially those who have suffered, deserve no less.
The review examined 36 allegations against 16 priests that were made between 1975 and 2013. The last alleged incidence of abuse was in 2000.
All 36 have been reported to the relevant authorities but just one conviction was secured.
Reviewers acknowledged that positive steps have been taken to encourage complainants to come forward. Since 1996, there is also a “more focused and committed approach to the safeguarding of children”.
Six recommendations were made following the review in August this year.
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If Sean Brady was “truly sorry” he would have stepped down long ago,seen as he was a pedophile enabler.There are some sick,twisted people in that church and some,sick and twisted people that support them still.
I went to school in the CBS…….,..,.and now I will work night and day to make sure my four sons never have to enter this hell
Child molesting and child abusing in the most organised possible way
May the devil watch your sole Br butle…
Sorry to survivors, what about the people who took their own lives as a result, the ones that didn’t survive. The whole organisation is a disgrace
Put your money where your mouth is Brady
Not good enough Brady should have resigned long before now.
This is the same man who interviewed children and warned them of excommunication if they told anyone about Brendan Smith. Smith went on for years to abuse children. Brady could have and should have stopped this. In my book that is a crime
A lot of these high ranking clergymen are only sorry that it was exposed and that it didn’t stay under the carpet . Like a bank or a government the church is an organisation that appears to have its’ own interests at the top of the priority list . They should have a greater responsibility and duty of care to the people who’ve invested spiritually in their teachings .
Their greatest fear is if the cash stops flowing in. As long as the money keeps pouring in they’ll be a very happy little bunch. Every now and again they can appear on TV and frown and pull a sad face and say we’re sorry, pray for us etc. etc. and then they can return to their warm houses, their full bellys and their golf courses. Money is their god. The saddest part if all is that so many people are still taken in by them.
If you look at the RCC and other religious organisations dispassionately, the whole thing is simply a confidence trick. Emotional blackmail is used to extract money from credulous people. The fact that they have abused minors supposedly in their care is criminal and a gross breach of trust.
The whole rotten organisation should go the way of its “embassy”!
Money talks … You’re right !
The only reason Cardinal Bernard Law resigned,who oversaw a massive cover up of abusive priests in Boston ,was because Catholics and Churchgoers withheld money from church funds !
Ouch …
Exactly. and it is up to every Irish man and woman to stop supporting the abusers. If it was any other cult , people would stop going to their masses, schools etc and drive them out of Eire in the same way as they drove the divine feminine energies out and called them snakes- healing energies.
There is an abject tolerance of wrong doing in this country by political commercial and religious organizations….
Brady is a disgusting excuse of a human being.Protecting paedophiles and endangering children all because of his religious beliefs and protecting the image of the Church.He should be rotting in jail.
Sorry for abusing all your kids but we need a new roof on church( sixth one in five years ) a half million to fix this time……. Please give generously
Abusing children is deemed their divine Rite. That is the bit most people cannot get their heads around.
I’m sorry Mr Daly, but did interrogate a 12 year old victim alone, asked him if he had enjoyed the abuse and then swore him to secrecy.
Not sure there was any way back from that.
surely an organization where its members commited that many criminal offences and where it was found that those crimes covered up, would deem it a criminal organization?
I only want to ask Cardinal Sean Brady one question:
When he meets his maker what will be his excuse?
If he is truly sorry instead of an statement he should go on tv get down on his hands and knees and beg for forgiveness for the damage he has done
The problem with that is there is no maker to answer to and well they know it. If there was an afterlife to reward people for living a good life you honestly think he would have covered up this sickening behavior?? Not a chance.
I remember posing a question to a bunch of fundamentalists or “bible thumpers” as they called themselves;
An atheist, cures cancer – saves millions.
A priest molests children.
Which one is going to heaven?
The answer – which was supported by walls of scripture, was the priest. The atheist did not acknowledge god and did not believe – they go to hell regardless of their works.
The priest gave their life to god – god will forgive them..
Funny – apparently there’s no forgiveness for failing to “accept Jesus as your lord and saviour”.
They were an interesting bunch..
Talk is cheap !!
How about compensation !!!!!
I wonder how sorry would he’d be then.
He’s only sorry they were caught.
Sean ,is more likely praying for Brendan Smyth,than any of the abused!
God bless ya son …….. Awaah shure the ould priest was only checking to see if ya had an infection
He is like a doctor he checks all the little boys
Humanity can change the direction it is going, but it will not go anywhere if people keep pushing belief in superstition on every body. Being humane is a feature of intelligence, not belief, and belief, by itself, can only allow people to believe in the old ways, which have caused nothing but war and man’s inhumanity to everything. One of the problems with belief in fantasy or superstition is that it defies reason, in that there are no proofs, other than that a person believes in something, that can be dealt with in the phenomenal world. Facts are facts and they do not have to be believed. Language is the tool that humanity uses, like a chimp with a hammer I might add, and until that tool is able to be used to build an intelligent, and safe world, it will continue to be misused. Ask yourself ‘what is thinking’; are you aware of where your thoughts come from, or do they just pop up out of no where? Well, thinking is memory, isn’t it? Can you think of what you cannot remember? Can you remember what you cannot think about? NO! Religion, IMHO, is garbage information put out there by others to control the population, and just like in computing, when you put garbage in you get garbage out. Worse than that though is believing, which does not allow you to even inspect the garbage you are spouting when you speak religion. Religion is the death of intelligence and the background for war and man’s inhumanity to man. If you think belief is so great, use it to build a computer!
Having belief or faith does not make you stupid. I am not religious nor am I church going but faith has it’s benefits.
It is just that the carriers of the message are human and humans are corruptable.
In fact the people who built the computer believed they could do so. If they did not believe they would achieve their objective they would have abandoned the thought.You say that thinking is memory, but memory does not supply us with thoughts of building computers. Thought processes are more than memory. Before memories can be formed we become self aware. Is self awareness a memory or a totally different thought process then? I am not defending a religion here, I am putting forward a spiritual viewpoint, that people of faith have achieved remarkable things, because they believed that there is more to life and the universe than can be imagined outside of our limited human perspective. Freedom of choice ensures that we do not make the error of limiting ourselves to believing in some abstract non religious viewpoint while unquestioningly accepting the current scientific or political orthodoxy as another gospel.
Could we not now have an apology contest to see who can come up with the best apology.I am really serious.It may seem like a joke ,but so are the stream of apologies….
There are numerous injustices and cruel acts perpetrated by organisations that ostensibly claim to represent the poor and the weak in society. These days ‘charities’ have taken over as the perpetrators and perpetuators of injustice.
Having a decent social policy that ensures enough for all would help people to regain trust.
(1). Abolish the USC charges taken from workers.
(2). Ensure free electricity and water supply for everyone on low income.
I think you’ll find item 1 and 2 didn’t rape children and cover it up
patricia you are beautiful woman. i no longer have wife
Fcuk off Brady.
Wtf would Brady know about being sorry . The only thing he might be sorry about is getting caught covering up a sex crime against a child.
I’m sorry he hasn’t been punished for that crime yet . Your words are cheap Brady , resign now you miserable b€&…d
Not good enough.
He also said he would step down if people wanted….and he is still there. So everything he says is worth absolutely nothing.
Resign.
Cardinal Brady shows his concerns for abused children? This is hilarious coming from the man who covered up horrific abuse by Brendan Smyth which allowed the man to abuse many more children over the years. He should be doused in petrol and burnt to death
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The Vatican are preparing for their own judgement day as people will soon find out the truth about the Vatican and the oppression of our spirit. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. This money worshiping paedo cult from Rome is coming to an end. “Repatriate to Britain
all of you who call it home, leave Ireland to the Irish, not for London or for Rome!” John Lennon
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