The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is coming under increasing pressure to resign over his handling of a child sex abuse inquiry. Cardinal Sean Brady says he won't resign over allegations that when he was a young clergyman he knew about a number of children who'd been abused by a paedophile priest but did not tell their parents. The Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore told parliament that anyone who didn't act against cases of abuse at the time should step down.
爱尔兰罗马天主教堂牧师因对一桩儿童性虐待调查处理不当,面临的辞职压力越来越大。有指控称Sean Brady还是一位年轻牧师时,就得知有数名儿童遭受一名恋童癖牧师的虐待,但他并未告诉孩子们的父母,对此,Sean Brady称不会因此辞职。爱尔兰副总理Eamon Gilmore向议会表示,任何当时不指控虐待案的人都应辞职。
"I've always believed in the separation of Church and state. I think it is the job of government and of the state to enact our laws and to ensure that those laws apply to everybody whether they belong to a church or not. But it is my own personal view that anybody who did not deal with the scale of the abuse that we have seen in this case should not hold a position of authority."
“我一直相信教堂和政府的分离,我认为政府和国家有责任实施法律,确保法律应用于所有人,不管他们是否属于教堂。但在我个人看来,面临这样大规模的虐待案而不予以处理的人都不应该位居权威职位。”