Sean Brady says Catholic church covered up abuse to preserve its “good name”

The retired Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, told a court in Northern Ireland that clergy investigating sex abuse allegations kept their findings secret in order to protect the Catholic church’s “good name.”

“There was a shroud of secrecy and confidentiality with a view not to destroying the good name of the church,” Brady, 75, told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Banbridge, Co. Down. “The scandal that somebody who was ordained to serve people should so abuse the trust for their own pleasure was appalling. “To offset that, the scandal was kept a secret — very, very secret. “Everybody involved would be bound to secrecy too.”

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