May 28, 2012
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Catholic Church, UK in bomb cover-up
25 August 2010 / REUTERS, CLAUDY, N. IRELAND
The British government, the police and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, an official report said on Tuesday.
The Police Ombudsman’s report revealed that a cardinal was involved in moving Father James Chesney out of British-ruled Northern Ireland, highlighting anew the way the Church hierarchy shielded priests from allegations of criminal activity. The inquiry showed that Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw had a private meeting with Cardinal William Conway, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, in which they discussed the possibility of transferring Chesney. “I accept that 1972 was one of the worst years of the ‘Troubles’ and that the arrest of a priest might well have aggravated the security situation’,” Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson said. But “the decision failed those who were murdered, injured and bereaved in the bombing.”
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