IT’S no surprise that Cardinal Seán Brady won’t resign following the disclosure of his part in the cover-up of Fr Brendan Smyth’s sexual assaults on children as far back as 1975.

The world yesterday said a final farewell to Pope John Paul II.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome to attend the funeral of Pope John II, sidestepping a European Union travel ban because it does not apply to the Vatican.