Sean Brady Quotes

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• I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to…
• There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.
• Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable…
• With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I…
• I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences…
• May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones…
• We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds…
• In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor.…
• The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in…
• Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility…
• The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is…
• Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.
• Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of…
• There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
• It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,

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