PopeWatch: Admitting the Obvious
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The whole rot needs to go. If this was a corporations, someone’s head would be on the chopping block. It’s pure arrogance being played out here. Disgusted.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice or more call me a Jesuit.
Pedophile and defrocked priest Theodore McCarrick was brought out of exile to formulate the China deal. McCarrick wants the Catholic Church destroyed.
In my opinion, Francis extended the Synod on Synodality because he may die and not have to sign the deal.
It must be very difficult for the Chinese to keep a straight face when dealing with this Vatican.
Pedophile and defrocked priest Theodore McCarrick was brought out of exile to formulate the China deal. McCarrick wants the Catholic Church destroyed.
The rap against McCarrick is that he molested adult seminarians. There have been some fuzzy accusations in recent years that he molested minors, but they’re not well-attested and the most specific accusation concerned not a prepubescent child but the groping of an adolescent male.
Whatever McCarrick does or does not want is immaterial. He’s been defrocked and is holed up places unknown. At his age (93) he has a life expectancy of about three years.
To set the historical record straight; McCarrick was laicized for “solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power,”
Journalistic source:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/40583/mccarrick-laicized-by-pope-francis
Well, we can’t have people violating the spirit of dialogue, now, can we? 🤦🏻♂️
Italian mafia: you are excommunicated
CCP, practicing LGQTP, fraudsters in Church, Catholic Politicians promoting abortion: if you aren’t careful, we will continue dialoguing w you.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might wonder if one was encroaching in their territory.
The Church has known full well of the dangers of trying to deal with Communists since before WW II. That this Pope would ignore history and present facts on the ground is foolishness to the point of culpability. Mores the pity that there seems little prospect of improvement considering his appointments that will live long after his papacy ends.
“ this Pope would ignore history and present facts on the ground is foolishness to the point of culpability..”
Trying to make sense out of it is fruitless unless you realize that his thinking(?) is: “logic is rigid”, and “tradition is bad”.
Childlike trust. Childlike faith.
It’s becoming a rarity in this current pontificate. Too many secret deals and intellectual deviants that can’t see or hear what kings longed to see and hear..but couldn’t. Once they might of…but overtime they shrugged off their childlike trust and faith.
They traded up but actually traded down.
Sad.
Today’s Gospel reading;
Gospel LK 10:21-24
*Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”*
Thanks for CAG. A further explanation of McCarrick’s laicization process “An administrative penal process is a much-abbreviated penal mechanism used in cases in which the evidence is so clear that a full trial is unnecessary.”
ART, the molested minors testified about long term abuse from “Uncle Teddy” McCarrick. One boy was 11, the other was 13. Seminarians – There are two kinds of seminaries still in the US. The minor can be day or boarding. Ages for the minor seninaries are 13 to 17 – 18. News articles were not specific about the ages of the seminarians.
“Uncle Teddy” molested the eleven year old son of his brother with whom he lived, Ingrate, evil ingrate.
[…] Links: Admitting the Obvious – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American […]
If he molested under age boys why has he not been charged? I’m sure there is enough evidence to prove he abused minors?
If he molested under age boys why has he not been charged? I’m sure there is enough evidence to prove he abused minors?
In most cases, the statute of limitations ran out. He was actually charged in Massachusetts last year and pled not guilty. The trial was supposed to start over a year ago … I haven’t been able to find out why it hasn’t.
If he molested under age boys why has he not been charged? I’m sure there is enough evidence to prove he abused minors?
The accusation referred to above was that he molested an 11 year old youth in said youth’s home in December 1969. The evidence for the offense is the retrospective testimony of his accuser, offered to the state attorney-general of New York in 2018. I don’t it’s prudent to prosecute someone nearly 50 years after the fact on the basis of uncorroborated testimony.
The accuser, one James C. Grein, has during the course of his adult life lived around Boston, around San Francisco Bay, and in Northern Virginia (where he is employed as a tennis pro). I’m not finding any indication he ever rented an apartment or paid a utility bill in the State of New Jersey. The Bishop’s residence in Metuchen is nearly 40 miles distant from where his family was living (in Ho-Ho-Kus and Teaneck). A component of his accusation is that the bishop abused him until 1986 and did so in the bishop’s residence. He was 28 years years old in 1986 (and living elsewhere). One also has to recall that Mr. Grein said nothing during the period running from 1983 to 2004, and, in particular, nothing during the last three years of that period.
There’s been a bad odor hanging around McCarrick for nearly 20 years. That doesn’t mean that every accusation against him is properly regarded as true or the bases for the award of civil damages and / or criminal penalties.