He later served as chaplain to the Poor Servants of the Mother of God community on Portland Row, and as a teacher at the vocational school on Mount Street in the city centre.
[1] Moriarty was appointed Bishop-elect of Kildare and Leighlin by Pope John Paul II on 4 June 2002, and was installed on 31 August in the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow.
The report added that Moriarty had told the commission that while he did not have access to the archives, he could have asked then-Archbishop Desmond Connell to conduct a search.
[10] Moriarty released a statement on 23 December 2009, stating that while the report did not criticise him directly, he fully accepted the overall conclusion of the Commission of Investigation.
On the basis that in his capacity as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Dublin, he had failed to challenge the culture of how abuse allegations were handled, he announced that he had offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, which was formally accepted on 22 April 2010.