This retirement appears long planned based on the info of this story. Sort of hard to pin on a “scandal” which it is not.
Just because you disagree with something, does not make it a scandal.
It was Jorge Bergoglio who had suddenly accepted the resignation days after the news of Sartain’s approval of the funeral. This after sitting on Sartain’s letter of resignation for almost a year.
It’s not a coincidence. Neither was it a coincidence that Jorge sat on Donna Wuerl’s letter of resignation for over three years before suddenly accepting it when all hell broke loose about Donna’s cover-ups of homosexuals.
It’s called damage control.
“Just because you disagree with something, does not make it a scandal.”
I think a RC Church choir singing at a suicide party qualifies as a scandal. I think I would think that even if I myself were an avowed atheist.
Don’t turn around and call me an atheist, I am not one.