Cardinal Brady "apologises" to abuse victim after BBC exposure

[Cyberman]

All this guff about biblical morality and instructions thereby are mostly an irrelevance, a smokescreen of red herrings - smoked herrings, if you will - except inasmuch as the people who are getting convicted of, and openly confessing to, these crimes purport to abide by such instructions and thus ought to be held to the higher standard of morality that they expect of everyone else. One would hope of course that justice would prevail, the justice of the legal system that should apply to us all and the only justice that bears any relevance to society. However the alleged actions of the accused priests in cases like this one are arguably at least as shocking as the actions of the Church itself in the face of such allegations.

From his own testimony, Brady was informed of the allegations way back in 1975, whereupon his first, and apparently sole, action was to inform his heirarchical superiors. Did he inform the police? Apparently not, and Brady does not deny it. Did he even inform the parents? He says not. Did his inaction prolong the suffering of the victim and lead to further abuse of other children? By his own words, yes.

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I repeat my original comment: if a schoolteacher had done this and some national school board had closed ranks and swept it under the carpet with all the other allegations, there would be hell to pay once word got out.