Bishop Resigns Over Pedophile Priest Scandal
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One of Ireland’s most popular Roman Catholic bishops announced his resignation over allegations that he had protected a pedophile priest.
Bishop Brendan Comiskey made his announcement in the capital, Dublin.
Comiskey said he confronted the Rev. Sean Fortune regularly and found him impossible to deal with.
Fortune, a priest who the church acknowledges sexually assaulted dozens of boys in the 1980s and 1990s, committed suicide in 1999 before his trial.
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