Irish bishop resigns amid sex abuse scandal

[brooklynite]

Source: MSNBC

DUBLIN - Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Wednesday of Bishop John Magee, a former papal aide who stands accused of endangering children by failing to follow the Irish church's own rules on reporting suspected pedophile priests to police.

Magee apologized to victims of any pedophile priests who were kept in parish posts since he took charge of the southwest Irish diocese of Cloyne in 1987.

"To those whom I have failed in any way, or through any omission of mine have made suffer, I beg forgiveness and pardon," the 73-year-old Magee said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36016131/ns/world_news-europe/

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I understand the Catholic Church has a great Outplacement service...

[hlthe2b]

1. too bad there wasn't immediate reciprocation...

(with Bishop Magee accepting the resignation of fellow pedophile enabler, Pope (Ratzinger) Benedict).

[Don Draper]

2. Good ridance

Now they should lock him up and throw away the key!

[AlbertCat]

3. Soooooo... when is he going to jail?

Or is it OK to aid child molesters? Is he part of this world, or just answerable to the nether world of the Catholic hierarchy?

[UrbScotty]

4. MORE Catholic-bashing! Wow!

And some Catholic-bashers call themselves Democrats?

[lifeliberty345]

5. The Pope and the Bishop should be locked up for life

Or do you support child abuse?

[lifeliberty345]

6. The Pope and the Bishop must be locked up for life

Or do you support child abuse?

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. More to the point, some Catholics call themselves Democrats

While supporting the pedos. You could be a poster child.

[Brickbat]

8. It's not bashing if it's the truth, of course.