Posted on 02/16/2019 5:25:01 PM PST by marshmallow
The recent Salon article detailing groping allegations against Cardinal Francis Spellman, the long-serving archbishop of New York City who died in the late 1960s, couldn't possibly have come as news to officials within the Church. Insiders have long whispered about his legacy of misconduct and the role he played in foisting McCarricks upon the Church.
"This is the first time we have learned of this allegation, and take what the writer says seriously, as we do all allegations of abuse or inappropriate conduct," Joseph Zwilling, director of communications for the archdiocese of New York, said to the Catholic News Agency. "We have never had a substantiated allegation of abuse against Cardinal Spellman, who died in 1967."
Notice the use of the word "substantiated" in the statement. In other words, the archdiocese was aware of allegations against Spellman but didn't bother to investigate them. Now that the media spotlight is on abuse again, the New York archdiocese feels the need to sound more concerned. Zwilling said to CNA that the author of the Salon piece, Lucian Truscott, should report "his allegation to our Safe Environment Director and/or the Victim Assistance Coordinator, so that we might offer whatever assistance might be needed."
That wasn't the attitude of the archdiocese of New York in the 1980s about Spellman. Back then, it didn't want to hear anything untoward about him. As detailed by the New York Press, author John Cooney tried to report on Spellman's misconduct in a biography but was blocked by the archdiocese.
Cooney had spoken to a number of sources who could testify to Spellman's active homosexuality, including a former Broadway dancer who said that Spellman knew he could get away with his double life owing to the docility and naivete of the faithful. Cooney told the......
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De mortuis, nihili nisi bonum
Nihil
Damn spell checker
“Lucian Truscott” is a famous name.
Does the same go for Cain, Herod, Judas and Pontius Pilate?
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