Sean Brady Quotes

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

They all did it – by which I mean, virtually the entire hierarchy is complicit to a greater or lesser degree in shuffling child-molesting priests around, or keeping them in some way in a position to commit their crimes. Why? Clericalism. The clerical class is what mattered most to these people, not the children and their families...

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

I hope today’s bill is a pedophile’s nightmare.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

The Catholic church is more interested at this time in the prevention of contraception rather than the prevention of the rape of children by priests.

We perhaps protect our pets better than our children.

Contrary to most state laws, the Catholic Church considered the age of consent to be as young as 12.

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.