Pope Accepts Irish Bishop's Resignation in Abuse Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25ireland.html?hp
March 24, 2010
Pope Accepts Irish Bishop’s Resignation in Abuse Scandal
By RACHEL DONADIO and EAMON QUINN
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Bishop Magee’s was the first resignation since the pope last weekend released a long-awaited letter to Irish Catholics apologizing to victims of sexual abuse and expressing “shame and remorse.”

...two scathing Irish government reports released last year revealed decades of systematic sex abuse of hundreds of thousands of Irish children and a widespread cover-up of the problem.

Bishop Magee was best known as the personal secretary who was among the first to find the body of Pope John Paul I, who died after a month in office in 1978.