Guilty clerics must resign

The Primate of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady, who has come under fire for forcing two victims of abuse to take a vow of silence in 1975, has said he will only resign on the request of the Pope. But the cardinal should show a sense of responsibility, writes the daily The Guardian: "The ... Church itself has been badly damaged, morally and politically by the attitude that secular society should have no role in judging the transgressions of priests. That clearly underlay the decision of the court to treat this as a matter of internal discipline only, and it remained vivid in the Vatican until much later. ... The church needs to make a public, decisive, and irrevocable repudiation of that attitude, and Brady is in a position to make it."

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