The McCarrick Report has been finally released. Go here to read it, all 461 pages of it. PopeWatch has not yet read it, but he has read the summary by ANDREA TORNIELLI, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication. It breathes white wash:
When Pope Francis was elected, McCarrick was already over eighty years old and was, therefore, excluded from the conclave. His customary travels underwent no change, and the new Pope was not given documents or testimony to make him aware of the seriousness of the accusations, involving adults, against the former Archbishop of Washington. What was communicated to Pope Francis was that there had been allegations and “rumors related to immoral conduct with adults” prior to McCarrick’s appointment to Washington. Since, in his view, the accusations had been investigated and had been rejected by Pope John Paul II, and well-aware that McCarrick had remained active during Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate, Pope Francis did not think it was necessary to modify “the course adopted by his predecessors”. It is, therefore, not true that he annulled or weakened the sanctions or restrictions placed on the Archbishop emeritus. Everything changed, as already mentioned, when the first accusation of sexual abuse of a minor emerged. The response was immediate. A rapid canonical process concluded with the serious and unprecedented measure of dismissal from the clerical state of a former Cardinal.
Go here to read the rest. Much more on that after PopeWatch has made his way through the Report.
I guess we should dismiss the McCarrick report (novel) as a cover-up by the Vatican of Pope Francis involvement and the blame for concealment cast on Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Vigano. This is what was to be expected and what was delivered.
My guess is that not much will be made of this “report” by our American hierarchy as to many of them McCarrick is a hero for his help to their careers, his “advanced” understanding of the Catholic faith (Vatican II-ism) and its program of being one with the State in the pursuit of humanistic globalism.
So, the secular press reported, at the time it happened under Francis, that McCarrick had been restored and was highly visible again. Apparently, they didn’t get the memo from the future that this would be inconvenient to the lying narrative now pushed by a man who believes the truth matters only so long as it is useful to his purposes. How long oh Lord, how long?
Pope Francis did not think it was necessary to modify “the course adopted by his predecessors”.-If only Francis had done this with regard to every other aspect to his papacy i.e. Amazon synod, AL & sodomy civil unions.
In the UK, the commission named Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) did NOT come to the same conclusion. Frankly it would be easy to come to ANY conclusion other than the hogwash put out by “the Vatican”.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/sex-abuse-report-damns-pope-cdl-nichols
“When Pope Francis was elected, McCarrick was already over eighty years old and was, therefore, excluded from the conclave.”
Well great, that means he won’t be committing sexual sins and scandal at a conclave. That’s what I was most worried about.
Read the Letter of St. Jude.
Again, godless people have slipped in unnoticed among us, persons who distort the message about the grace of our God in order to excuse immoral acts. Long ago the Scriptures predicted this. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah. They sin against their own bodies and God’s authority. They’re always grumbling and blaming others. Hate the sin. Love the sinner. If the sinner won’t repent, the Lord rebuke him.