The Cardinal Brady Affair - Church Cover-up!

Roman Catholic 'bishop,' Donal McKeown, has every right to feel flat on this May Bank Holiday (2012).  It has been a horrendous few decades for his 'church.'  He probably, and hopefully, feels thoroughly and deeply ashamed at both the actual clerical child sex abuse perpetrated against the innocents by his priests and brothers, and at the institutional cover-up that has quite clearly been going on. 

But do not forget that this kind of inhumane treatment may have been going on outside of official 'church' structures and inside what could be described at the 'para-church' institutions of his 'church,' namely the schools, orphanages, etc.  Anecdotal evidence would suggest that young boys and girls have been brutalised by both priests and nuns, if not physically, then psychologically and emotionally and mentally. 

Is this being investigated and by whom?  I hope not by the 'church' because that gives absolutely no credibility whatever to any outcomes.  When any organisation investigates itself, and is done by those specially chosen by the 'church' to conduct such investigations, then such a process is profoundly laughable if it were not so serious.

This must be conducted by those who have no links whatever with the Roman Catholic 'church' and by people who sufficiently independent to say it as it is.  Torch-holders for that 'church' will do a whitewashing job, and the victims of clerical child sex abuse will be doubly traumatised exactly as sex abuse victims of Fr Brendan Smith, Brendan are exposed to further humiliating 'measures' being taken by 'mother church.'

Smith's sex abuse of children was known to the Norbertine Order since the late 1940s, yet nothing was done by them to bring Smith to justice and also to protect the 100 known victims of his uncontrolled lust.  He had never been reported to the police in either the Irish Republic or in Northern Ireland.  'Cardinal' Sean Brady was actively and personally involved in an investigation in the 1970s into Smith's behaviour and was given the names of four other children whom Smith abused in addition to the boy he interviewed.  But nothing was done.  The boy's father, who waited in an adjoining room, was not told of the rogue priest's campaign, nor were the parents of the other four children informed of what was going on. 

How Sean Brady can say he acted in line with his conscience is commendable; but it all depends on how enlightened his conscience is/was.  If it has not been enlightened by the clear teaching of Scripture, it has not been enlightened.  If the very light of nature has not enlightened Brady about the basic difference between right and wrong, then for him to appeal to conscience is pathetic.

It would appear that his conscience was not held captive to the Word of God but to the rules and dictates of his corrupt and corrupting 'church.'  To abide by the rules or laws of any organisation, especially when those laws are contrary to nature law and the law of the nation, is to plead too much.  In fact, to do so is incriminating.

Now that the police are aware of the systemic child sex abuse within Roman Catholicism, what steps will they take to hold the entire religious organisation to account, and further, why has the Commission for Children and Young People been so quite at this time?  If this had happened in any other organisation, the authorities would have shut it down immediately pending investigation.  But that is not happening.  That religious organisation is being protected by that law that is designed to protect all its members, especially children. 

Brady must do the decent thing and resign from his post; but he must do more than that.  He must come clean and tell everything he knows about what happened since his initial involvement in the clerical child sex abuse campaign within his 'church.' 

But maybe, like IRA terrorist leader, Martin McGuinness MP, MLA, he too is silenced by some oath he has taken not to reveal what went on within that corrupt organisation.  Perhaps the truth will never come out this side of the Great Judgement Day.  But maybe it will.  But don't hold your breath!