Brady: Church leaders did not discuss resignations in Rome

THE Pope and the heads of the Irish Church did not discuss directly the resignations of any of the bishops during their meeting in Rome, according to Cardinal Séan Brady.

Instead they concentrated on the accountability and credibility of the bishops, and how to re-establish that, the Irish Primate said.

It will be up to individual bishops themselves to take responsibility for their actions, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin indicated, adding that they were doing this in public which was a new thing in the church in Ireland.