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Inside the Vatican Slams McCarrick Report as Exercise in ‘Cover-Up, Evasion, and Scapegoating’ ROME — Veteran Vatican journalist Robert Moynihan blasted the Vatican’s long-awaited “McCarrick Report,” writing Tuesday that the text brings injury and obfuscation rather than healing and clarity.In his scathing review, Moynihan — founder and president of Inside the Vatican — declares that after two years of careful investigations, the 460-page report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and his serial homosexual abuse “leaves us still in the ecclesial swamp of cover-up, evasion, and scapegoating of others.”Instead of exploring the true causes of the disgraced former cardinal’s meteoric rise...

McCarrick report will seek to lay blame on John Paul, Benedict while minimizing Francis’ fault The report is set to be released tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10. November 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Tomorrow, the long-awaited McCarrick report will be released. The report itself, which is more than 600 pages long and will have tons of footnotes, has taken years to compile. Early indications are that it’s going to lay the blame for former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse on John Paul II and Pope Benedict instead of on Pope Francis.  But given that Pope Francis is complicit in the McCarrick scandal, an independent...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican set for November release of long-awaited McCarrick report. Will it be honest? Whether the upcoming report will reveal the full truth remains to be seen November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Reuters reports today that, according to its own sources within the Vatican, the long-awaited McCarrick report on the history of Theodore McCarrick's misbehavior and the high-ranking cover-up or tolerance of it will be published before the Fall Meeting of the USCCB, November 15-19. LifeSite was told the same by several sources. According to Reuters, this report is to be published ahead of the USCCB meeting and is...

Analysis: Two Years After McCarrick Investigation Began, Report Not Yet in Sight As we approach two years since the investigation into the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., many Catholics are waiting for the report to be released. DENVER, Colo. — On October 6, 2018, the Holy See announced a review of its files and archives pertaining to Theodore McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, D.C, who is now laicized and living in disgrace, a known sexual abuser who has offered no public words of repentance. Since the Vatican’s investigation began: —The longest government shutdown in U.S. history began and...

US bishops’ stand on Communion for pro-abortion politicians came from Theodore McCarrick Laying out the battle between McCarrick and Joseph Ratzinger over whether to give the Eucharist to politicians persisting in grave public sin. Theodore McCarrick August 18, 2020 (CatholicCulture.org) — After I posted yesterday on the Biden-Communion controversy, a few friendly readers asked me to explain how the American bishops settled on their current policy. I’m happy to oblige. The chief architect of the US bishops’ current policy is: Theodore McCarrick. Do I have your full attention now? The debate over whether pro-abortion politicians should be barred from Communion, which...

Catholic Church was warned about McCarrick decades ago, yet promotions, honors kept coming

Cover-Up Culture Gave McCarrick License New investigation sheds light on old crimes NEWARK, N.J. (ChurchMilitant.com) - New details are emerging regarding the Church hierarchy's cover-up of notorious homosexual pederast Theodore McCarrick, freeing the former cardinal to continue with his crimes unabated. Mark Crawford and Fr. Kenneth Martin An investigative analysis published on Monday reveals that Vatican officials and other prelates ignored or overlooked reports on McCarrick's misdeeds and odd sleeping arrangements with seminarians at his infamous beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey. Now working for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Mark Crawford met with McCarrick in...

[Catholic Caucus] Lawsuit Claims McCarrick Headed Abusive ‘Sex Ring,’ Names Alleged ‘Procurer’ A lawsuit filed Tuesday charges that former cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused a boy and aided his abuse by several other priests, and claims that a principal at a Christian Brothers high school helped procure the victim for McCarrick and the other clergy abusers in the early 1980s. The plaintiff’s controversial lawyer, Jeff Anderson characterized McCarrick as leading a “sex ring.” He claimed papal power is to blame, including Pope Francis, and cites unproven claims by the controversial Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano about the Holy See’s response to...

New accusation surfaces against former U.S. prelate McCarrick Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, arrives in procession for a Mass of thanksgiving for Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 22, 2010. A new lawsuit against McCarrick, who was laicized in 2019, accuses him of managing a sex ring among seminarians, altar boys and priests at a New Jersey beach house. (CNS/Paul Haring) Washington — A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate,...

HOW MUCH DOES AN ANTICHURCH COST? $2 Billion per year, apparently. HIV antiretroviral scrips, cocaine, rent boys and child sex slaves ain’t cheap, folks. IF the $2 Billion per year figure is accurate, it is some of the most “effective” tactical money ever deployed. Now do we fully understand why Antipope Bergoglio and the whole wretched cabal are so aggressively evil? Why they openly preach Marxism and hatred of God and His Holy Church? Why Antipope Begoglio and his cabal are all 100% on board with the fake CoronaCold crime against humanity? Remember who brokered the destruction of the Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] No Word on McCarrick Report as Second Anniversary of His Removal Passes Quietly “The publication depends on the Pope,” said Cardinal Parolin in February. “The work that is done is done, but the Pope must give the final word.”Edward Pentin VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is remaining silent about its investigative report into disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., who was removed from public ministry two years ago June 20 after allegations emerged of his sexual abuse of minors and sexual harassment of seminarians. The Holy See Press Office and the Vatican Dicastery for...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics criticize Vatican’s long delay in releasing McCarrick report Catholic author John Zmirak declared that McCarrick was not only a 'monster' but 'the spider who wove today's U.S. church, picking its bishops.' VATICAN CITY, June 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― In the wake of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington harshly criticizing the John Paul II National Shrine for allowing President Donald Trump to make a long-planned visit there, Catholics are wondering when the long-expected report about his disgraced predecessor will be released.  “Regular requests made to the #Vatican asking when the #McCarrickReport will be released have gone unanswered,” Rome-based journalist...

DC priest describes a culture of cover-up in wake of McCarrick scandal VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In early February, the second-highest-ranking prelate in the Vatican told news outlets that a long-awaited report into the ascent of disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick would be published in the “near future.” In 2018, Pope Francis ordered that the Vatican investigate all of the documentation it had collected over the years regarding McCarrick, including data gathered in the dioceses of New York; Metuchen and Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C., where he had served.Almost three months after the February announcement, the report has still not...

[Catholic Caucus] Where’s McCarrick? Where’s the Report? Unanswered questions: 612 days and counting DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Continual coverage of the COVID-19 scare has served to drive other pressing stories off the front pages. For Catholics, one important story is suffering from inattention — the long-promised report on the crimes of disgraced former cardinal and abuser Theodore McCarrick is yet to be delivered. It was 612 days ago (July 16, 2018) when a story in the New York Times on the former cardinal's double life as an abuser of young men and seminarians broke. First Calls for an Investigation Within a month, Cdl. Daniel N. DiNardo...

Cardinal McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to group led by cleric accused of sexual misconduct In the years before his removal from ministry, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to a controversial group of Catholic missionaries and supported leniency for its founder after the Vatican punished him for sexual wrongdoing, internal church documents show. From 2004 to 2017, McCarrick sent the Institute of the Incarnate Word dozens of checks — some as large as $50,000 — from a charitable account he controlled at the Archdiocese of Washington, according to ledgers obtained by The Washington Post.

[Catholic Caucus] Peace be with you Martinsville priest Father Mark White's popular blog has drawn lots of readers and the scorn of leaders of the Richmond Diocese because of his criticism of the Catholic Church's handling of sexual abuse cases. But his voice and his words have been silenced. This week he could be out of a job. The Catholic News Agency reported three weeks ago that McCarrick voluntarily had left the St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kan., and would only describe his new residence as “a community for those removed from the ministry.” And a much-anticipated report from the...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘I Don’t Remember’: Which Prelates Knew About Sex Abuse? Vatican report must address many names in light of Viganò, Sipe revelations In October 2018, just months after Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò accused Pope Francis of covering up for ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Vatican reported that the pope commissioned a study of the Vatican archival files on McCarrick "in order to ascertain all the relevant facts — to place them in their historical context and to evaluate them objectively." Now, more than 14 months later, the results of the long-awaited investigation have yet to be disclosed. Many people are asking,...

Washington D.C., Jan 8, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Law enforcement officials have conducted interviews with several senior figures at the Papal Foundation, a U.S. based charity which supports the charitable works of the Holy Father. Officers from the FBI have spoken to at least three foundation staff members over last several months, with enquiries focused on the role of Theodore McCarrick, who served as a board member until his removal from the College of Cardinals in 2018, following charges of sexual abuse of minors. Last year, McCarrick was laicized following a Vatican investigation and his conviction by a canonical...

The former CDF prefect said Catholics had a right to know the truth about the accusationsCardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has urged Pope Francis to “look for reconciliation” with his critic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Speaking to EWTN’s The World Over programme, the German cardinal called on the Pope to “give answers to [his] accusations or questions”, saying: “The people of God have a right to know what happened.” Archbishop Viganò, the former US nuncio, has accused Pope Francis of ignoring sanctions imposed on ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick by Benedict...

Marc Cardinal Ouellet Writes Open Letter of Threat and Intimidation to Archbishop Viganò Marc Cardinal Ouellet Writes Open Letter of Threat and Intimidation to Archbishop Viganò Marc Cardinal Ouellet has issued a response to the most recent letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò calling on Ouellet to tell what he knows about McCarrick. What spin. What abuse, what open threats. Typical of the Bergoglian Peronist regime. I can imagine the next response from  Viganò be ground-breaking and provide even more evidence of corruption of these prelates.