Posted on 11/16/2018 5:44:30 PM PST by marshmallow
Asks bishops why they didn't stop disgraced archbishop McCarrick
BALTIMORE (ChurchMilitant.com) - The bishop of Spokane, Washington is asking U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore if some of them no longer believe it's wrong for adults to engage in homosexual acts.
Speaking at the bishops' meeting on Tuesday, Bp. Thomas Daly put forth some possible "reasons" why bishops turned a blind eye to disgraced Abp. Theodore McCarrick's homosexual predation of seminarians and priests.
"Did this come to be," asked Daly, "because we have certain bishops and priests who don't see anything wrong with consensual sex between adults?"
He did posit other possible reasons which were equally unflattering.
"It might be they themselves were compromised," said Daly. "Others, ambitious clerics on the ecclesiastical escalator, doing everything to contain things and not saying anything, and then moving up the ladder. And then maybe sadly the realization that some, who were involved in this, didn't think anything really, 'What did it do with my vocation?'"
Bishop Daly affirmed that many lay Catholics want McCarrick's rise to power investigated. He also said that not only seminaries but also religious orders should be examined for homosexual predation.
"As a bishop, I have heard concern, and prior to that as vocation director," he related, "that there were some experiences in some novitiates of predatory behavior. Some individuals left over that. Some chose to leave for a while and then go to a diocesan seminary."
He recommended looking at both seminaries and houses of religious formation in a "thorough way" lest the same problem of homosexual activity reoccurs. Bishop Daly then spoke on the behalf "good faith-filled families," who want to promote vocations within their family but are concerned that bishops will do nothing to clean up the homosexual activity within the Church.
"They do have a concern.............
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“The road to hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.”
St. John Chrysostom
“The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.”
St. Athanasius, Council of Nicaea, AD 325
Is Jorge Bergoglio a Catholic?
The real issue is not whether they have Catholic morals, but whether they are even Catholic.
No.
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