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2 more Irish bishops quit over Dublin
child abuse report.
DUBLIN – Two Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
resigned on Christmas Day in the wake of a damning
investigation into decades of church cover-up of child
abuse in the Dublin archdiocese.
Dublin Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field offered an
apology to child-abuse victims as they announced their
resignations during Christmas Mass. Priests read the
statement to worshippers throughout the archdiocese,
home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics.
Earlier this month two other bishops, Donal Murray of
Limerick and Jim Moriarty of Kildare, quit following the
Nov. 26 publication of a three-year investigation into
why so many abusive Dublin priests escaped justice for
so long.
The government-ordered investigation found that
Dublin church leaders spent decades shielding more than
170 pedophile priests from the law. They began providing
information to police only in 1995 — but continued to
keep secret, until 2004, many files and other records of
reported abuse.
In a joint statement Walsh and Field said they hoped
their resignations "may help to bring the peace and
reconciliation of Jesus Christ to the victims (and)
survivors of child sexual abuse. We again apologize to
them."
"Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have so
bravely spoken out and those who continue to suffer in
silence," the bishops' statement said. Read more »
Report by Commission of Investigation into the
handling by Church and State authorities of allegations
and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Read more »
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