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Abuse victims' fury as Cardinal Sean Brady refuses to quit From Times Online May 18, 2010 Survivors of clerical child sexual abuse called on Irish Roman Catholics to make their voices heard today after Cardinal Sean Brady ended months of speculation about his future by saying he would not resign. The cardinal, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, is under pressure to stand down after it emerged that he took part in a secret canonical tribunal in 1975 at which two minors were made to swear oaths of silence about their allegations against the paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth. Smyth went on to rape hundreds more children across Ireland, the UK and the United States before he died in prison in 1997. _http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7129779.ece_ (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7129779.ece) Spain struggles with new Catholic sex abuse claims 18 May 2010 By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Cordoba For almost 50 years, the Franciscan Brothers of the White Cross have run care homes across Spain, looking after the sick and the needy. Now the Catholic order and its centre in Cordoba are the focus of allegations of sex abuse that have shocked the city....Since 2001, Spain has reported 14 confirmed cases of clerical sex abuse to the Vatican. But this month brought two fresh accusations: one against a Carmelite monk in eastern Spain, the other against Franciscan brothers in the south. _http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10122305.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10122305.stm)
