Posted on 11/15/2018 7:00:51 PM PST by marshmallow
US bishops vote down resolution urging Holy See to release McCarrick documents
The bishops of the United States resumed their open-floor discussion on the recent sexual abuse scandals facing the Church in America Wednesday morning. In addition to debating the best means of institutionally responding to the crisis, the specific case of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick was raised by several speakers.
Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville told the conference Nov. 14 that the allegations against McCarrick, and the scandal of his rise and fall, were not just affecting long-time Catholics. Many people in the process of entering the Church found themselves having the example of McCarrick thrown at them by friends and family as evidence that they were entering an institution in crisis.
Stika said McCarrick, and the letters of former nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, were serving as “ammunition” to discourage people from entering the Church, and that many Catholics felt that bishops were only responding to the sexual abuse crisis when they were “forced to” by the media.
Several bishops spoke in favor of the USCCB acting as a body to speak out about McCarrick.
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth told the conference hall that “we end where we begin.”
“So much of the outrage we experience – and I think it’s a rightful outrage – is prompted by the injustice that our people have experienced at the hands of predators, at the treatment of our seminarians and our priests who were entrusted to the care of former cardinal McCarrick, a trust that was not only violated, but was ignored by others who were responsible for paying attention.”
Olson observed that while Pope Francis had accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the college of cardinals and sent him to a life of prayer and penance pending a canonical process.......
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These cowards and wolves are silent because they are guilty as charged.
Despite the clear and forceful calls by several bishops for some clear statement on the case of Archbishop McCarrick, when the bishops resumed their seats after breaking for lunch they voted down a resolution to “encourage” the Holy See to release whatever documents it could on McCarrick.
Mens rea.
Yep, as I just posted on another thread: “the courage is weak in this group”. View from a peasant in the pew.
We will wonder about the skeletons in your closets that lay your bare to blackmail and extortion by your brother bishops and cardinals and . . .
your = you
“What are people to make of our silence?” he asked.“
Silence is consent.
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They should look to the Saints.
You’ll notice nothing about 1P5, LifesiteNews, Church Militant, or even Catholic News Agency, the National Catholic Register, or EWTN.
They want desperately to shut anyone up who is telling the truth about what they’re doing.
The courage is absent.
They’re thinking “Donnie Wuerl has kept his mouth shut for two decades, and things seem to be working out just fine for him.”
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