Posted on 02/09/2019 5:32:57 PM PST by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY, February 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Unnamed officials at the Vatican have told Reuters that the Vatican will decide next week on discipline for the former cardinal Theodore McCarrick over allegations of sexual abuse.
Unnamed sources had previously told Reuters that McCarrick’s faculties as a priest will be removed, thus making the former Archbishop of Washington the most senior cleric to be so disciplined in nearly 100 years.
On Thursday, Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria, who leads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), met with Pope Francis. While Cardinal Ladaria would issue a ruling on McCarrick, it is the pope who will have to approve any decision about the American cleric’s fate.
The development comes just two weeks before the highly-anticipated summit organized by Pope Francis on the “Protection of Minors in the Church,” which has garnered criticism. Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan, for example, told LifeSiteNews that the summit is “doomed to failure” if it does not focus on the “predominant role of homosexual behavior in the clerical sexual abuse cases…” The heads of the various bishops’ conferences will meet at the Vatican for the conference, which is being led by Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago.
Allegations against McCarrick, 88, date back decades while he was a rising figure in the Church’s hierarchy in the United States. He served as archbishop of Washington D.C. from 2001 to 2006. Currently living at a friary in Kansas, McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals was accepted by Pope Francis in July 2018. McCarrick was ordered by the pope to refrain from public ministry and to live in seclusion, prayer and penitence.
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Who cares?
You would, if it were you, or one of your children, who got sodomized.
I agree.
Pedophilia is a stain on the Catholic Church.
Too little too late. Turn him over to the police.
Decades too late and way too little
It’s actually pederasty ... male sodomites taking teenage boys, typically between the ages of 14 and 17. Pedophilia involves sexual desire for per-pubescent children of the opposite sex.
Does it have to do with being a Catholic or being queer?
That comes after the defrocking.
During “Medieval times,” after the offender was canonically defrocked, the Church hierarchy would turn over such foul reprobates to the civil authorities - for execution.
Frankly, I think that is what should be done with every sodomite on the planet - execute them - every last one.
It has to do with committing a criminal act. Or is that concept too difficult for you to comprehend?
U musta had a bad experience.
Unnamed sources again.
Bump
Could have been avoided if he’s just kept his frock zipped.
RCINC cutting its losses
No way will he be “defrocked” (to use the vulgar term). There’s a long way between faculties removed and laicized.
” Turn him over to the police.”?
Were it you or I buggering all those kids we’d be in prison.
What I’d like to know is WHY have all these pedophiles not been turned in by the church?
Why haven’t ALL these creeps been prosecuted?
Why has not the church been investigated for the cover up?
Most of his crimes are not criminal offenses under US law. Trying to seduce a seminarian (typically in his early 20s) is a terrible sin, but it's not a criminal act in the US.
I'm not sure they can prosecute for his molestations of boy(s) (I only know of one) because of the statute of limitations.
I wish he would have been stopped long ago, whether by prison or any other way. Now, the damage has been done and he's a doddering old man.
McCarrick was accused of molesting an 11 year old boy. Pedopheila fits just as well. He’s guilty of many crimes.
Bad experience?
You seem to think this a joke.
That such evil has entered the church is scandalous enough.
However what truly moves one to incredulity is the indifference that those like yourself express with such flippant remarks.
Allow me to point out that the opposite of love is not hate, but rather it is indifference. A warning against the vice of acedia (look it up), which leads to indifference - is the primary lesson taught in the parable of The Good Samaritan. Those who ought to have known better were found to be indifferent to the evil done against and suffering of their fellow man.
So, allow me to also point out that your initial comment smacked of indifference. You then further increased your culpability by making degenerate comedy out of what is a grave matter. Yours is the poison that lures more souls to hell than any other vice.
How’s that for a “bad experience?”
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