The McCarrick whitewash report will be coming out tomorrow. Here is a preview:
- McCarrick will be condemned.
- No one in power at the Vatican had the slightest knowledge about his crimes and the Pope and those surrounding him are shocked, shocked by it.
- Plenty of praise for new measures that have “solved” this problem.
- Praise for the Pope as to how he has handled this.
- Following the report McCarrick will become an erased person as far as the Vatican is concerned, old business that is forgotten.
- In short, more of the same insult to our intelligence that lay Catholics have been put through since the abuse scandal broke out into the open. McCarrick is merely an example of a moral evil readily embraced by many still holding power in the Church.
- The Lavender Mafia will get off scot free.
- Vaudeville had much better dog and pony shows.
Yes, what we expected. And the main stream Catholic media will support whatever the “Pope” says. Truth is no welcome in the Catholic hierarchy.
Our “second catholic president” if inaugurated supports abortion up until birth. While the Pope comes out in favor of “same sex unions”.
“Truth? What is truth?”
You forgot “mistakes were made, warning signs were missed” long ago by superiors of his who are now dead.
You forgot “mistakes were made, warning signs were missed” long ago by superiors of his who are now dead.
IIRC about 3/4 of the diocesan priests accused of misconduct in Syracuse were ordained by Bp. Walter Foery, who as of 2002 had in fact been dead for 24 years. Unless the diocese is lying through its teeth, he would not have known there was a systematic problem with his priests, because complaints were rare prior to about 1983 (a pattern you see in many other dioceses; over 130 people eventually made complaints about John Geoghan; at the time he was dismissed from the priesthood there had been about seven complaints).
There’s been an odor around McCarrick for at least 15 years Remember the pseudonymous Diogenes, who used to blog for Catholic World Report? Neither Philip Lawler nor Domenico Bettinelli have to my knowledge ever revealed who Diogenes was. Diogenes made it public in 2005 that stories were being passed around about Cdl. McCarrick and suggested some of his peculiar behavior could be a function of blackmail. It seemed cheesy at the time, but we now know that the folks at Ignatius Press did have information about the Cardinal. May not have sufficed for a canonical proceeding, but it likely was enough for the Cardinal to avoid discovery proceedings. Now we know that Apb. Vigano did provide information to the Holy See with which the Pope and his camarilla could not be bothered.
That’s qualitatively different than the situation in re American dioceses, where accusations are typically made 10,15, even 30 years after the fact and seldom include any corroborating information.
Meanwhile the disgraced cardinal lives most likely very comfortably somewhere while the ‘sons’ of his evil are in high places and still being appointed to carry on his way of doing things.
I will disagree with you slightly, Don. I suspect there will be some “mistakes were made” rhetoric which will seem like a taking of responsibility. That is, until you drill down into it and realize that its Roman word-play and mental reservation.
It’s the exact same way they issue denials that never are never unequivocal denials.
Let your “yes” be “uh” and your “no” be “erm.”
Meanwhile the disgraced cardinal lives most likely very comfortably somewhere while the ‘sons’ of his evil are in high places and still being appointed to carry on his way of doing things.
He lived in a friary in a small town in Kansas, about 150 miles from the nearest city. Supposedly, he decamped elsewhere in January 2020. The Capuchin order said he was free to stay but elected to leave; they also indicated that he had to be supervised at all times and intimated that was a burden for the small corps of friars resident there. He was an only child. The closest relatives he ever had in his generation were some cousins of whom the survivors are as antique as he is and likely not in a position to look after him.
I agree with you Dale. Such weasel words always call to mind this passage from Asimov’s Foundation:
“The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications – in short, all the goo and dribble – he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out.
Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.”
That Asimov quote has always been one of my favorites, since I first read it in high school.
One thing that I also found surprising and shocking from McCarrick was the routine “gifting” of large sums cash up the church hierarchy. In a layperson’s terms (outside of the church) that is known as a bribe.
Art Deco,
Re: Diogenes
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/farewell-uncle-di-father-paul-mankowski-rip/
One thing that I also found surprising and shocking from McCarrick was the routine “gifting” of large sums cash up the church hierarchy. In a layperson’s terms (outside of the church) that is known as a bribe.
Clerics preach against Mammon publicly and then too many are drinking buddies with him behind the scenes. Christ preached against the love of money to His Apostles because He knew it was ever the besetting sin of clergy.
We have been told from heaven that these days were coming, I fear this is just the beginning. Above all we hold on to THE faith which was first delivered to us, all thd rest we discard
Clerics preach against Mammon publicly and then too many are drinking buddies with him behind the scenes. Christ preached against the love of money to His Apostles because He knew it was ever the besetting sin of clergy.
In 2004, I was told Bp. Wuerl managed to fix a canonical proceeding in Rome by paying off members of the tribunal. It seemed outlandish and the priest who told me this is a faithful man but…eccentric. It no longer seems outlandish.
McCarrick as we speak has a life expectancy of about 4 years (and an expectation of living as something other than a demented invalid that’s rather briefer). If he has indoor plumbing and isn’t getting his meals from his smokehouse, his chicken coop, and his vegetable garden, he’s living more comfortably than at least one set of my great-grandparents (who were, by the way, bourgeois living in town who saw the midpoint of their self-supporting married life around about 1917). What he’s done he’s done. The problem is the stack of enablers. Some of them are dead too. Our problem is that one of the living is sitting on the Chair of Peter.
Looking no further than today’s Gospel reading to sum it up;
Gospel Lk 17:7-10
Jesus said to the Apostles:
“Who among you would say to your servant
who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field,
‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’?
Would he not rather say to him,
‘Prepare something for me to eat.
Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink.
You may eat and drink when I am finished’?
Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded?
So should it be with you.
When you have done all you have been commanded, say,
‘We are unprofitable servants;
we have done what we were obliged to do.’”
How many fall into the trap of serving themselves based upon their prideful view of themselves, thinking that God has been served enough and now he owes me…my way now, I did you my best Lord so now it’s all about me.
We are dirt.
We are at service to our Lord as created beings in love with our creator.
As soon as we become prideful of our works or our service to God
we loose all control because it’s all about us and not about Him.
“Help me to decrease so You may increase in me.”
When pride takes over it’s; Help to to increase and so My increase is Mine
and as mine you become my tool to serve me.
Implosion.
Mccarrick.