Brady controversy - Questions to answer

AS pressure for his resignation grows, Cardinal Seán Brady has serious questions to answer.

Having observed last year that senior clerics must accept responsibility for their actions, the latest revelations about his role in secret diocesan investigation into the activities of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth has put the cardinal in a situation somewhat of his own making.

The crux of this issue is his admission that when he was part-time secretary to the Bishop of Kilmore in 1975, he was present at meetings where two teenage victims swore not to reveal that the Church was investigating complaints about the monstrous priest.