Campaign aims to force bishops Walsh and Field out of office

SURVIVORS of abuse have called on the two bishops whose resignations were not accepted by the Pope to resign irrespective of the pontiff’s wishes.

The group, Religious Abuse Truth, said it was organising a letter writing campaign in order to force Dublin auxiliary bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field from office.

Protesters are also planning a picket of the papal nuncio’s residence to protest against Rome’s decision not to allow the bishops to resign after they were named in the Murphy Report into the cover-up of clerical sex abuse.