Cardinal Brady has admitted his role in what most reasonably-minded people, perhaps including Joe O, would regard as a criminal cover-up, as a result of which Brendan Smyth was free to continue his depravities without constraint. (See the link I provided at the top of the thread,) Why on earth has Ratzinger not sacked him? That would have sent out a slightly stronger signal than all the anguished handwringing in which the hierarchy now indulges (although the anguished handwringing is itself a step advance on the supreme arrogance in which the hierarchy previously indulged).