The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray. Dr Murray, a former auxiliary bishop in Dublin, had been under pressure to quit since the publication of the Murphy Report into clerical child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.
The report criticised Bishop Murray for his failure to deal with allegations about Fr Thomas Naughton and said the failure was inexcusable.
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