Resignation spark calls for Connell to follow suit

SURVIVORS of child abuse have renewed their calls for Cardinal Desmond Connell to step down following the resignation of Boston archbishop Bernard Law yesterday.

Pope John Paul II accepted Cardinal Law’s resignation after months of public outrage at his failure to protect children from clerical sex abuse.

He is the highest-ranking church leader to fall as a result of the clerical sex abuse crisis that has plagued the Catholic Church this year.