Cardinal McCarrick, ex-archbishop, hit with abuse claim

MSN News ^ | June 20, 2018

[detective]

The retired archbishop of Washington, D.C., has been removed from public ministry over allegations he sexually abused a teenager in New York more than 40 years ago.

The Roman Catholic church said Wednesday that the allegations against 87-year-old Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were found to be "credible" and that Pope Francis ordered his removal.

McCarrick said in a statement released through the church that he accepted the decision but is innocent and has no recollection of abusing anyone.

He was archbishop in Washington from 2000 to 2006 and a priest in New York from 1958 to 1981.

[detective]

The accusation was from 40 years ago in New York.

[pepsi_junkie]

McCarrick said in a statement released through the church that he accepted the decision but is innocent and has no recollection of abusing anyone.

No recollection of abusing anyone? Uh huh, as if that's something you forget, like where you put your keys.

He's 87 so unless he has Alzheimer's, if he resorts to lawyer speak denial it means he's guilty.

[allendale]

Save the Church by doing away with mandatory celibacy and purge all homosexuals from the clergy. Neither celibacy or homosexuality are compatible with natural law.

[pbear8]

Neither celibacy or homosexuality are compatible with natural law.

Our Lord was celibate.

[markomalley]

“Save the Church by doing away with mandatory celibacy and purge all homosexuals from the clergy. Neither celibacy or homosexuality are compatible with natural law.”

Celibacy doesn’t have anything to do with it. Homosexuality, on the other hand...

This news about McCarrick is old news. It was fairly well known that he had a tendency to like seminarians. Pity nobody ever did anything about it.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/church-cardinal-mccarrick-is-a-molester/

[pgkdan]

I thought this swisher flamed out years ago.

[irish guard]

A few years ago, I read the book, “Goodbye Good Men” which discussed the problems with the seminaries over the years. Ultimately these led to pedophilia issues in the seminaries and at the churches as well. I do not believe celibacy is the issue.

[dangus]

I met him. He made my skin crawl.

[pepsi_junkie]

My mom was joking recently about the local Bishop, how he’s a “fairy” in her words. Flamboyantly so. I just shake my head and wonder “why are people surprised to hear about preists abusing young teen boys when half of them are gay and gays tend to like young teen boys?”

[marstegreg]

Apparently the Pope has learned a lot from the democratic party.

[AzIrish]

Cardinal McCarrick should be no surprise to anyone. He has had a reputation for years with seminarians, etc. Many years ago (in the 90s I think) our parish priest told us Cardinal McCormick and Cardinal Mahoney were practicing homosexuals and should be removed from the priesthood. I know people like them made good priests like our priest sick.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You know nothing about Natural Law.

If celibacy were against Natural Law, all our children should be required to marry at puberty, and remain married until death.

But you don't mean that.

Not only is celibacy NOT against Natural Law, it is honored (though not, of course, required) by Divine Law.

In 1 Cor. 7, St. Paul provides a powerful endorsement of celibacy:

“Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband ... But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. For I would that all men were even as myself [unmarried]: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that. But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I...

...Therefore, both he that giveth his virgin (daughter) in marriage, doth well; and he that giveth her not, doth better.”

We see that St. Paul clearly identifies the state of virginity or celibacy as an honorable state. We also see this in the words of Jesus Himself:

Matthew 19: 11-12- “[Jesus] said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. For there are some incapable of marriage, who were born so from their mother’s womb: and there are some incapable of marriage, who were made so by men: and there are the unmarried who remain unmarried for the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who can accept this teaching, should do so."

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[Mrs. Don-o]

So marriage cures homosexuality? Who knew!?

Too bad it didn't work with so many men who divorced their wives to go hook up with their boyfriends... like Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson.

[IrishBrigade]

‘We see that St. Paul clearly identifies the state of virginity or celibacy as an honorable state.’

and we see, some 2000 years later, that very few people put much stock in this ‘honor’; fortunately...

[Mrs. Don-o]

I've noticed that most people who have a low view of honorable celibacy, have a low view of honorable marriage, as well.

Chaste celibacy and Holy Matrimony are both virtuous, God-honoring ways to live. The degree of honor they get in this world, tends to go up or down in tandem.

[Jeff Chandler]

and we see, some 2000 years later, that very few people put much stock in this (or any other) ‘honor’

[Antoninus]

I've noticed that most people who have a low view of honorable celibacy, have a low view of honorable marriage, as well.

That is a quip worthy of Chesterton. Brilliant.

[Verginius Rufus]

The terms in the Greek text of Matt. 19.12 are eunouchoi, eunouchisthesan, and eunouchisan--"eunuch" and the passive and active forms of the verb "to make a eunuch."

The older translations don't obscure the blunt language used by Jesus. Jesus' disciples would have been familiar with the concept.

In Genesis 39.1, in the Septuagint version, Potiphar is "the eunuch of Pharaoh." That may have been part of the reason why Potiphar's wife tried to seduce Joseph.

[Mrs. Don-o]

McCarrick was also the one that hid the letter from Cd. Ratzinger on “No Communion for pro-abort politicians” from the other American bishops.