Posted on 08/26/2018 8:25:44 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
NEWARK — Recent allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick include reports that he made sexual advances toward seminarians during his tenure as bishop of Metuchen and archbishop of Newark.
CNA recently spoke to six priests of the Archdiocese of Newark, and one priest member of a religious order who was a seminarian in New York in the early 1970s, while McCarrick was a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
Citing archdiocesan policy and concerns about ecclesiastical repercussions for their candor, the priests agreed to speak to CNA only under the condition of anonymity. The priests spoke individually to CNA, and their accounts were compared for confirmation.
The religious priest who spoke to CNA said when he studied in a seminary in New York, Archbishop McCarrick, who was then an aide to Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, would sometimes visit the seminary. The priest said that Father McCarrick’s reputation was already well established by this time.
“The dean of our theology school was a classmate at CUA with McCarrick, and he knew about the rumors,” the priest told CNA, “he spoke about them with the other faculty and theologians very openly.”
So well-known was Father McCarrick’s reputation, the priest said, that when Father McCarrick would accompany Cooke to visit the seminary there was a standing joke that they had to “hide the handsome ones” before he arrived.
The same reputation reportedly followed the archbishop years later, when he served from 1986-2000 as archbishop of Newark. One priest of the Archdiocese of Newark told CNA it was an uncomfortable experience when McCarrick came to visit the seminary.
The priest said that Archbishop McCarrick would often place his hand on seminarians while talking with them, or on their thighs while seated near them.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Six priests of the Archdiocese of Newark, and one priest member of a religious order discuss their experiences in seminary under Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
BTTT for later.
This is relevant
That could sooner than later become as explosive a public document as Luther’s theses.
I attended a Jesuit Univ. and a priest used to do that to undergrad men. The guy was creep.
I have great respect for American Jesuits of the past, their intellects, and what they built - but the present generation seem to be nothing but wretched faggots.
It's just as easy to forgive prist while they're doing time in prison as it is to forgive them while they're sitting in a church rectory close to children.
And preying on young men studying to be Priests should be treated as sexual harassment... take the bugger to court and sue him AND the Church. This isn't 1950 - people can fight back.
from link:
...”we must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths we have kept hidden. We must tear down the conspiracy of silence with which bishops and priests have protected themselves at the expense of their faithful, a conspiracy of silence that in the eyes of the world risks making the Church look like a sect, a conspiracy of silence not so dissimilar from the one that prevails in the mafia.”
I have been reading some other sources which claim that Cardinals Spellman and Cooke were active homosexuals. Is there anything to that?
This important link you presented to the 11 page document by the Nuncio to the United States will start the correction of the Roman Catholic Church, or not. Incredible testimony.
Spellman yes. Cooke no and that’s a big no.
And it helps corroborate the bombshell document in post #3, which came out this weekend, so it is relevant.
The cancerous rot in the church stems from the admission of openly admitted homosexuals into the seminaries in the 60s... they open the door to Satan in the delusion of “inclusiveness” and he has brought hell upon them.
Until the church openly admits the problem, and does something about it, do not expect this to end.
The PC narrative is that the cover ups, hush money, etc were simply to protect the church.. which is true to a point, but it was also to protect the homosexual cabal within the church from being exposed, and the laity from discovering just how entrenched it is.
Thirst cover ups were not to simply keep abuse of children out of the public eye, but to keep hidden the fact that homosexuals now run large swaths of the church, trade sexual favors for promotions, plumb assignments, influen doctrine and generally turned the church into their personal bathhouses.
Until THIS reality is accepted and dealt with, do not expect anything to truly change.
First started getting whiffs of the problem in the ‘60s...the real tragedy is that they not only neglected to clean it up but actually helped it hide and grow.
I sure hope there is a massive house cleaning before the rest comes out in hondoras and other countries.
I agree... though it will depend on a willingness to expose all the corruption from the top down, instead of closing ranks to protect anyone or anything.
Sorry, I didn't explain my point.
It's not that it's not relevant, it's that by posting it, it sounds like additional allegations have been made on top of previous ones, which they have not. It was confusing to read the article until I looked at the date it was written.
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