The Nuremberg defense: the passing of an Irish bishop who oversaw the sexual abuse of children by clergy in Ireland later commented ‘I did my best’. Truth campaigner argues that the cover-up was mandated directly from the Vatican.
Quote:Disgraced former bishop Brendan Comiskey dies aged 89: ‘He operated within a system that directed the cover-up’
The Monaghan native retreated from public life following the publication of the damning Ferns Report which outlined a catalogue of child sex abuse in the diocese over a period of 40 years.
It emerged that Bishop Comiskey had failed to protect children from paedophile priests and failed to report allegations that Fr Sean Fortune had abused a number of children.
He resigned following the airing of a ground-breaking BBC documentary Suing the Pope, which uncovered over 100 allegations of abuse against 21 priests stretching back as far as 1962.
Speaking to the Irish Independent in 2014 about the clerical abuse scandal, he said: “I did my best and it wasn’t good enough and that’s it.”
Outlining his feelings towards Bishop Comiskey, Mr O’Gorman said: “I think people see the individual, the Bishop who behaved badly and orchestrated this cover-up. But the reality of the situation is that Brendan Comiskey and every other Bishop who covered up child sexual abuse and moved priests did so at the direction of the Vatican.
"While he was responsible for his own actions on a personal level on one hand, he complied with the directives from the Vatican in relation to child sexual abuse.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
