From www.rte.ie/news
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has not accepted the resignations of Bishops Raymond Field and Eamonn Walsh, the Catholic Communications Office has confirmed.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has sent a letter to all priests in the Dublin Diocese to confirm the news.
The two auxiliary bishops submitted their resignations to Pope Benedict on Christmas Eve 2009, in the wake of the Murphy Report investigation into clerical child abuse in the Dublin Diocese.
The two are to be assigned revised responsibilities within the diocese.
Dr Walsh has been a bishop for 20 years and ran the diocese of Ferns for four years after Brendan Comiskey resigned as a bishop over his cover-ups of abuse.
Dr Field has served for 12 years in Dublin.
Both bishops initially resisted calls for their resignation.
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