Do you believe in some sort of theory of collective guilt, or something? Google Field and Walsh and Murphy Report, and tell me what the specific charges are. I did, and came up with nothing.
As you well know the thread is a news report - what I think or do not think is not germane to the guilt or innocence of the two bishops.
However, I have checked into the allegations and they do not seem to be substantiated in any way. Yet, the two bishops did resign as they were not supported by their hierarchy, Archbishop Martin.
Here is the only thing that I found concerning Bishop Walsh and that does not seem to be of any great importance.
The commission report refers to one particular allegation in one instance where you advised a woman to write to the chancellor. Did you report that to the Garda?
“Can I answer that very clearly. That was post the framework document (1996) and what I said to the woman . . . she rang me on a Saturday. She was a nun. She was a social worker and she said I have a concern, could you advise me? And I said what is it, and she said there is a priest who has offended and I said is he alive and she said he is. Is he in ministry, she said he is. Then you must act right away and this is how you proceed. You go to the chancellor who is the delegate and write to him and I will check to see he acts on it.
“He did act on it but it took about six months for the woman to actually get the name of the complainant and you can’t go to the guards with a third-party concern. So the spin that was put on that yesterday morning (in an article on Tuesday in The Irish Times by One in Four founder Colm O'Gorman) was most disingenuous and outrageous.”
You appear to be right in that there does not seem to be anything there that should cause a resignation, and in the case of Bishops Walsh and Field, it does seem to be a classic witch hunt.