CARDINAL O'Brien may be long gone from public life, following the scandal surrounding his "inappropriate behaviour" with a number of priests – but if the Catholic Church thought his speedy departure, accelerated by the Vatican, would close the door on clerical scandals, then the hierarchy was wrong.
CARDINAL O'Brien may be long gone from public life, following the scandal surrounding his \"inappropriate behaviour\" with a number of priests – but if the Catholic Church thought his speedy departure, accelerated by the Vatican, would close the door on clerical scandals, then the hierarchy was wrong.
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As we report today, victims who were abused by church figures as children are asking why it took just days to get rid of O'Brien, yet decades after crimes were committed against them, no action has been taken. O'Brien is guilty of being a hypocrite – he castigated homosexuals and denounced gay marriage, yet he was drawn to men himself. However, he committed no crime. He carried out no act of evil.
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Church must act on all abuse
CARDINAL O'Brien may be long gone from public life, following the scandal surrounding his "inappropriate behaviour" with a number of priests – but if the Catholic Church thought his speedy departure, accelerated by the Vatican, would close the door on clerical scandals, then the hierarchy was wrong.
As we report today, victims who were abused by church figures as children are asking why it took just days to get rid of O'Brien, yet decades after crimes were committed against them, no action has been taken. O'Brien is guilty of being a hypocrite – he castigated homosexuals and denounced gay marriage, yet he was drawn to men himself. However, he committed no crime. He carried out no act of evil.
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