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	Brendan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Brendan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On his trip, Brendan is supposed to have seen a blessed island covered with vegetation; convinced that he had seen Paradise, he returned to Ireland.
		It is not impossible that Brendan may have encountered North America on his journey, in which case Brendan was one of the first European visitors to the New World.
		Christopher Columbus relied on the legends told of St Brendan as part of his argument that it was indeed possible to travel to Asia by crossing the Atlantic.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Brendan.html (663 words)

	Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brendan Smyth case, and the systematic obstruction of justice in his case by the Norbertine Order caused immense damage to the credibility of the Catholic church in Ireland, as did other cases, such as that of Fr.
		The abuse by Grennan and others in the Diocese of Ferns in south-east Ireland led to the resignation of the local bishop, Brendan Comiskey while similar scandals in the Archdiocese of Dublin severely damaged the reputation of its archbishop, Cardinal Connell.
		Brendan Smyth's apparently pedophilic tendencies but also of allegations of sexually interfering with children from as early as 1945, yet it was only in the late 1980s and early 1990s that the two police forces in Ireland, the Garda Síochána and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were able to gather sufficient information to prosecute Smyth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal (3582 words)

	RTE News - Comiskey's turbulent career assessed
		Bishop Comiskey's early career in the church was as bright as his later years were stormy.
		Brendan Comiskey's clerical career got off to a dream start - he was head of his order in Ireland and Britain at the age of 34, becoming bishop at 45 and receiving his own diocese at 47.
		In 1995, as the Father Brendan Smyth controversy raged, Bishop Comiskey challenged the Vatican's ban on married priests and was summoned to Rome.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0401/comiskey02.html (382 words)

	CNN.com - Pope accepts bishop's resignation - April 6, 2002
		The Bishop of Ferns, Dr. Brendan Comiskey, announced his decision to quit earlier this week after the British Broadcasting Corporation showed a TV documentary about the case of Father Sean Fortune, who died in 1999 before his trial on sex charges.
		Comiskey, 66, apologised for not doing enough to halt the trail of abuse perpetrated by Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 shortly before he was to stand trial on 66 criminal counts of sexually abusing boys for nearly two decades.
		Comiskey, who was ordained in 1961 and was auxiliary bishop for Dublin in 1980 before becaming bishop of Ferns, is the third Catholic bishop to step down amid a series of sex-abuse cases rocking the Church.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/06/pope.bishop (511 words)

	Brendan Comiskey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brendan Comiskey is the former (A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ) bishop of the Diocese of Ferns in (additional info and facts about County Wexford) County Wexford.
		Comiskey's office admitted that the Bishop received treatment for (Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms) alcoholism.
		It is alleged that Cardinal O'Fiaich had been told about the allegations, as had the (The smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929) Holy See.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Br/Brendan_Comiskey.htm (270 words)

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		Bishop Brendan Comiskey of Ferns, in County Wexford, left Ireland last year to undergo treatment for an alcohol problem at a clinic in the United States.
		Last autum Bishop Comiskey was called to Rome to explain his views on clerical celibacy, after clashing in public disputes on the issue with the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly.
		Comiskey said reports that he had refused to cooperate with police in two pedophilia cases had caused him great pain.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Igpress/CWR/CWR0496/FollowUp.html (1428 words)

	Brendan Comiskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brendan Comiskey is the former bishop of the Diocese of Ferns in County Wexford.
		There were further allegations of abuse by priests in Comiskey' diocese.
		Comiskey's office admitted that the Bishop received treatment for alcoholism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brendan_Comiskey (120 words)

	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church
		For years, Comiskey had been under fire for his handling of a pedophile priest, the Rev. Sean Fortune, who killed himself in 1999 after he was charged with abusing boys.
		Comiskey said he could not be part of the solution because he was so much part of the problem.
		Doyle said Comiskey's handling of Fortune was remarkably similar to Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law's handling of John Geoghan, who allegedly molested scores of children and whom Law moved from parish to parish before defrocking him.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse/print/040202_bishop.htm (784 words)

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		Brendan Comiskey was one of Ireland's most popular bishops - until a hard-hitting television documentary unearthed the child sex abuse scandal in Ferns.
		Comiskey left Fr Fortune and other priests in place despite complaints from local people that they were abusing children.
		Comiskey was born in Tasson, County Monaghan in 1935 as the youngest of 10 children.
	www.utvinternet.com /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=66444&pt=n (561 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Abuse victim calls for church inquiry
		The Bishop of Ferns in County Wexford, Brendan Comiskey, announced his resignation on Monday after admitting that he failed to deal adequately with the activities of Father Fortune.
		Dr Comiskey had been under growing pressure to step down since the broadcasting of a BBC television documentary last month, about his handling of the case of Father Fortune.
		Dr Comiskey said he now recognised he was not the person to achieve unity and reconciliation between the diocese and the priest's victims.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1906504.stm (521 words)

	Observer \| Irish bishop was forced to quit by Vatican
		Brendan Comiskey, the former Bishop of Ferns, did not choose to resign last April but was forced out of his job by the Vatican.
		Father Tom Doyle, a former Vatican ambassador, says the decision to push Comiskey to go was taken, not because of the revelations of child abuse, but due to a 'fear of bad publicity'.
		Last April Comiskey, who is now believed to be training as a counsellor in the United States, said that he would write to each of Father Fortune's victims to explain his part in the affair.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4591818-102275,00.html (510 words)

	Feminist Daily News 4/2/2002: Irish Bishop Resigns
		One of Ireland’s most well-known bishops, Bishop Brendan Comiskey, announced his resignation yesterday amid allegations that he protected a pedophile priest from prosecution.
		Comiskey’s announcement came on the eve of a documenatary debut chronicling the story of the Father Sean Fortune, a priest who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of boys in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
		In a related story, the Roman Catholic dioceses of Orange and Los Angeles paid $1.2 million to a woman who says she was molested from the ages of 14 to 17 by a priest who then paid her to have an abortion after she became pregnant more than 20 years ago.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6437 (331 words)

	CNN.com - Irish bishop quits over abuse row - April 2, 2002
		Brendan Comiskey, the Bishop of Ferns, announced his resignation on Monday following mounting criticism of the way he dealt with allegations of sex abuse against the Rev. Sean Fortune.
		Comiskey said he tried but failed to control Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 before his planned trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping boys over nearly two decades.
		The program, to be broadcast Tuesday on Irish state television, blamed Comiskey for not doing enough, alleging he first heard of complaints against Fortune in the 1980s.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/02/ireland.bishop (480 words)

	Enniscorthy Echo Newspaper - Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BISHOP Brendan Comiskey was concerned about children and education in a speech made in the early 1990s to a gathering in the Talbot Hotel.
		Brendan Comiskey’s self-acknowledged failure to avail himself of professional help and counsel in dealing with the problem of child-abusing priests in his diocese may have stemmed from his strong sense of personal responsibility rather than a deliberate attempt to keep the p
		Bishop Brendan Comiskey never mentioned Monageer in his statement on Monday, despite the fact that he faced similar accusations of not doing enough in that case.
	www.unison.ie /enniscorthy_echo/index.php3?ca=38&issue_id=7179 (1223 words)

	Scandal forces bishop to quit
		Bishop Brendan Comiskey said he had tried but failed to control the Rev. Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 before his trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping boys over nearly two decades.
		Church superiors in Ireland accepted the resignation of the 66-year-old Comiskey, who had overseen the southeast Irish diocese of Ferns since 1984 and was widely regarded as Ireland's most popular bishop.
		Comiskey, who will remain a priest, said he would personally present his resignation to the Vatican this week.
	www.freep.com /news/religion/prdp2_20020402.htm (491 words)

	Comiskey due to give evidence at sex abuse inquiry \| OneinFour.org
		FORMER Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, who resigned over his handling of sex abuse allegations against the late Fr Sean Fortune, is expected to give evidence to the inquiry into sex abuse in the diocese later this month.
		Dr Comiskey, resigned in disgrace, on April 1, 2002, and is understood to be in New York undertaking an addiction counselling course.
		The diocese sold his luxury bungalow on the Curracloe road outside the town, which was purchased as a retirement home.
	oneinfour.org /news/news2004/comiskeyferns (552 words)

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		Bishop Brendan Comiskey announced his resignation a day before the Irish state broadcaster was due to air a BBC documentary highlighting his failure to curb the activities of Father Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 while awaiting trial on 66 charges of rape and molestation.
		The program's makers allege that Bishop Comiskey was made aware of Fortune's abusive behaviour in the early 1980s but failed to act until a full police investigation was under way in the mid-1990s.
		Bishop Comiskey is believed to be the first senior Catholic clergyman to resign for failing to protect victims of clerical sex abuse.
	www.tampabaycoalition.com /files/402IrlandBishopCoverUpRape.htm (546 words)

	Catholic World News : TROUBLED BISHOP RETURNS TO IRISH DIOCESE
		Last autumn Bishop Comiskey was called to Rome to explain his views on clerical celibacy, after clashing publicly on the issue with the head of the Irish Church, Cardinal Cahal Daly.
		Comiskey admitted that he had not always given the police all the information in his possession, and added, "I now stand accused because I now know how these cases-- some of which go back to the 1970s-- should be handled in 1996.
		Bishop Comiskey apologized for his sudden departure from the diocese five months ago, but said that he was unable to come out and state publicly that he intended to seek treatment for his problem with alcohol.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=76 (701 words)

	Irish Bishop Resigns Amid Scandal
		Bishop Brendan Comiskey said he had tried but failed to control the Rev. Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 before his planned trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping boys over nearly two decades.
		Comiskey provided the documentary team a letter saying he wanted to talk to abuse victims privately but would not take part in a TV show that could be "misrepresented as arguing in public against the survivors."
		Comiskey later said he had stayed at the hotel, but was on an innocent vacation and hadn't known about its seedy reputation.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/657596/posts (2650 words)

	Independent Catholic News
		The bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, has resigned because of increasing pressure over his management of sex abuse by four priests in his diocese which had been highlighted in a BBC documentary a week ago.
		Bishop Comiskey said that in the wake of continuing pressure and criticism, he now recognised that he was "not the person who can best achieve these aims of unity and reconciliation".
		Dr Comiskey said he trusted his successor would carry forward the vital work of healing and reconciliation in the diocese and said he would be available to my successor in whatever way was useful to be part of that.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /irishres.html (1122 words)

	islandpacket.com \| Report documents abuse by Ireland clergy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dr Walsh, who was appointed as Apostolic Administrator after former Bishop, Brendan Comiskey, resigned over his handling of allegations of abuse, said the report showed the victims were now being heard and believed.
		Comiskey resigned in 2002 after admitting he had not done enough to prevent abuse, particularly by the Rev. Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 after being charged with 66 counts of molesting and raping teenage boys.
		It also said Comiskey's efforts to investigate abuse allegations were woefully inadequate, most crucially against Fortune.
	www.islandpacket.com /24hour/world/story/2839391p-11497215c.html (671 words)

	Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brendan Smyth case, and the gross mishandling of his case by his Norbertine Order, caused immense damage to the Church in Ireland's credibility, as did other cases, such as a parish priest, Fr.
		The abuse by Grennon and by others in the Diocese of Ferns in south-east Ireland led to the resignation of the local bishop, Brendan Comiskey while similar scandals in the Archdiocese of Dublin severely damaged the reputation of its archbishop, Cardinal Connell.
		Brendan Smyth's paedophile tendencies but of allegations of sexually interfering with children from as early as 1945, yet it was only in the late 1980s and early 1990s that the two police forces in Ireland, the Garda Síochána and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were able to gather sufficient information to prosecute Smyth.
	www.wordspider.net /ro/roman-catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal.html (2696 words)

	News 20th March 2002 \| OneinFour.org
		The Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, is coming under growing pressure to issue an apology to the victims of Fr Sean Fortune after video evidence was aired last night of the late Wexford priest abusing a boy.
		She claimed that the Church and Bishop Comiskey had still failed to adequately address the abuse of the boys by Fr Fortune.
		He (Dr Comiskey) could reach out to these victims and tell them what he knew and at least offer them some sort of hope and acknowledgment and apology," she said.
	www.oneinfour.org /news/news2002/video (617 words)

	Irish Emigrant - News and jobs for the global Irish community
		Dr Comiskey's resignation came after almost two weeks of intense media pressure which started when some of the victims of the late Fr Seán Fortune were interviewed in a BBC television documentary.
		At his brief press conference Dr Comiskey started by apologising "to each of the four men whose stories of abuse have been depicted in the recently broadcast documentary and to all who have been abused by priests of the diocese".
		Fr Grennan was removed from the parish briefly but was back on the altar with Dr Comiskey on the day of the confirmation, prompting the parents of some of the girls to leave the church with their daughters.
	www.emigrant.ie /article.asp?iCategoryID=177&iArticleID=2630 (9234 words)

	Irish Examiner - 2002/08/17: Diocese buys 234,000 euro retirement base for Comiskey
		THE Diocese of Ferns has paid 234,000 euro for a retirement home for Bishop Brendan Comiskey.As well as the bungalow in Curracloe in Co Wexford, the Bishop is to be given a pension.
		Bishop Brendan Comiskey resigned on April 1 of this year.
		Dr Comiskey is believed to have been residing in the Bishop's Palace until recently.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2002/08/17/story781932935.asp (467 words)

	Bishop in N. Ireland resigns over priest's pedophilia - baltimoresun.com
		Bishop Brendan Comiskey said he had tried but failed to control the Rev. Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 before his scheduled trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping boys over nearly two decades.
		Church superiors accepted the resignation of Comiskey, 66, who had overseen the southeast Irish diocese of Ferns since 1984 and was widely regarded as Ireland's most popular bishop.
		Avril Doyle, a senator in Comiskey's home county Wexford, said locals knew of three other priests who had been accused of sexual abuse but had yet to face charges.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/yahoo/bal-te.ireland02apr02,0,1838527.story (449 words)

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