To: sitetest
One might say that the source is this Vigano letter:
In writing up a memo on these documents that were entrusted to me, as Delegate for Pontifical Representations, on December 6, 2006, I wrote to my superiors, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the Substitute Leonardo Sandri, that the facts attributed to McCarrick by Littleton were of such gravity and vileness as to provoke bewilderment, a sense of disgust, deep sorrow and bitterness in the reader, and that they constituted the crimes of seducing, requesting depraved acts of seminarians and priests, repeatedly and simultaneously with several people, derision of a young seminarian who tried to resist the Archbishop’s seductions in the presence of two other priests, absolution of the accomplices in these depraved acts, sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist with the same priests after committing such acts.
To: irishjuggler
OK I have a bit more background.
The guy is real, he really was the nuncio in the USA from 2011-2016. He was sent here as a way to get him away from whistleblowing in the Vatican, mostly about finances.
He got crossways with Bertone, who was kind of a Prime Minister, if there is such a thing, under Benedict XVI.
We all know people who “blow the whistle” frequently. Sometimes they are heroes and martyrs, sometimes they are a bit off.
Vigano is certainly going to be attacked as the second sort, and he will be placed under enormous pressure to recant. If, however, he’s telling the truth and if he sticks by his guns and has the documentation, then it’s a revolution without precedent with enormous implications for Christianity all over the world.
To: irishjuggler
Actually, a cleric giving absolution to individuals with whom he violated the 6th Commandment, and then celebrating Mass would constitute sacrilege in itself.
16 posted on
08/26/2018 1:40:35 AM PDT by
sitetest
(No longer mostly dead.)
To: irishjuggler
sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist with the same priests after committing such acts.Words fail.
Am not Catholic and this still sends my mind reeling with revulsion.
17 posted on
08/26/2018 1:41:55 AM PDT by
Ciaphas Cain
("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
To: irishjuggler
sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist with the same priests after committing such acts That might mean "black mass", or might just mean celebration of mass while most definitely not in a state of grace.
37 posted on
08/26/2018 5:01:13 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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