Posted on 11/15/2018 7:05:58 PM PST by marshmallow
Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2018 / 03:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops' conference voted down a resolution that would have “encouraged” the Holy See to release all documents on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
After about a half hour of debate, objections that the resolution was redundant and ambiguous won out, and it was voted down by a clicker vote of 83-137, with three abstaining.
The original text of the resolution, proposed by Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, read: "Be it resolved that the bishops of the USCCB encourage the Holy Father to release all the documentation that can be released consistent with canon and civil law regarding the misconduct of Archbishop McCarrick."
“This is not going to solve everything,” Boyea said, but it was “one little task” that all of the bishops could do.
The resolution was brought before the bishops at their Nov. 12-14 meeting in Baltimore. The bishops have focused almost exclusively on possible solutions following several months of clerical sex abuse scandal in the Church in the United States.
In the debate of the proposal, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark pointed out that the Holy See had announced Oct. 6 that an investigation was being launched into its archives on Archbishop McCarrick.
In that statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis decided to combine the information from an ongoing McCarrick investigation in New York “with a further thorough study of the entire documentation present in the Archives of the Dicasteries and Offices of the Holy See regarding the former Cardinal McCarrick, in order to ascertain all the relevant facts, to place them in their historical context and to evaluate them objectively.”
Pope Francis is quoted in the communique saying: “We will follow the path.......
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Wow. The lack of courage is strong in this group.
Even more encouragement for the ongoing Federal investigations of the RC Church due to alleged child sex abuse and obstruction of justice conspiracies.
If he is just another bishop then there is no reason why any of the other bishops should defer to him.
lack of courage, lack of leadership, lack of principle....
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.
More and more, the Protestant Reformation looks very right....
I guess we now know what they’re going to do the day a Democrat Federal Government comes in and tells them to shut-up about abortion or lose their tax exempt status.
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