Posted on 08/20/2018 2:12:04 AM PDT by markomalley
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is accusing Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, of "not telling the truth" as he attempts to defend himself amid criticism and calls for his resignation over the release of a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing allegations of widespread predatory behavior by more than 300 priests against more than 1,000 children.
The report is critical of Wuerl, who served as the bishop of Pittsburgh for 18 years, from 1988 to 2006, and describes him as one of the bishops who helped cover up abusive behavior. The cardinal's defenders note that he acted to discipline some priests as bishop in Pittsburgh and even fought the Vatican against an order to reinstate a predator priest. After the release of the grand jury report on Tuesday, Wuerl said in a statement that it "confirms that I acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse."
The Pennsylvania attorney general disagrees. In a statement to CNN, Shapiro said, "Cardinal Wuerl is not telling the truth. Many of his statements in response to the Grand Jury Report are directly contradicted by the Church's own documents and records from their Secret Archives. Offering misleading statements now only furthers the cover up." Shapiro added that the cardinal "should heed the words of Pope Francis who validated our work in Pennsylvania and support the recommendations of the Grand Jury."
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Go to the website “The church militant”, they are claiming a like scandal is or is about to break in almost all if not all of the diocese in NY. The Vatican will have to respond like it never has, are we looking at something RICO-ish, and what other states will these atrocities be unveiled?
The Cardinal has had this coming for a long long time.
the catholic church has always been corrupt
It all stems from VII or from the twistage of VII as the German and many American bishops and almost all the South American ones rushed to get right with the modern world. It was posited that homosexuality is okay among priests, after all they are all pledged to celibacy. The reality is that a far smaller portion of homosexual men are capable of celibacy than are hetero men. When homosexual priests become bishops they do as homosexuals do in any milieu, they recruit their soul mates and filter out the normals. When they get into administrative positions in the seminaries then the Church becomes the Queer Mafia.
I can’t bear to read through it, the whole thing is so disgusting.
What do you mean “VII”?
Duh.
Now WTH is the state of PA going to do about it?!
Talk is cheap.
And where in Hades are the other 49 state AGs?!
(crickets)
Vatican Two
VII is 7. Never mix Acronyms and Roman Numerals that can’t be separated.
Shapiro is a professional politician. If he says something, it is to further his career.
When a priest molests a child, that is not damning evidence against the Bishop. We 300 priests molest 1,000 children, I find it hard to see how that is not (both figuratively and literally) damning evidence against those higher up in the Church.
It’s hard to imagine many things worse than what happened, but these predatory homosexual pedophiles managed it. The worst part is the contribution this makes to the other side’s campaign against the Church, against Christianity, and against God. By handling this so badly, the Church turned what should have been quickly crushed isolated indiscretions into a weapon that will weaken morality nationwide and probably worldwide, handing a big win to Satan and to his anti-family, anti-God, anti-freedom minions. The end result? Making it easier for other predators to harm children and even to argue “love is love” as if abusing children is not even wrong.
Pedophile priests have long been a problem.
All of a sudden Bergoglio and the libs have noticed it.
Why now?
Kavanaugh is Catholic and, typically, they are trying to raise a red herring.
Read the report. The bits about the confidential files are especially damning.
I read the Martin Luther biography by Eric Metaxas last year - "corrupt" is too gentle a word.
Man has always been corrupt. No institution is exempt.
The Cardinal is a master of word manipulation intended to give the casual reader one thought while explicitly failing to address a key aspect of the sex abuse scandal.
The Cardinal says that he “...acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse.”
That statement may be true on its face but in true Clintonian fashion obfuscates the question of what actions he took (or didn’t take) against a primary finding: that the Church protected the perpetrators rather than referring them to the justice system for adjudication.
While preventing future acts of abuse is a concern a more pressing one is insuring that the accused are treated as required by law. Inquiring Catholics want to know:
- How were the priests handled?
- What did he do remove them?
- Were they hidden instead?
- Did he protect them by playing the wack-a-mole game and moving them to a new parish? And a new one after that?
- Did he refer them for prosecution or did he bury it under the cloak of Church secrecy?
I'm not arguing with the facts. Evil triumphed, and the Bishop was a major contributor to that. My local church had a much, much smaller issue. The difference is that we handled it well, so there was no scandal.
RCINC is the oldest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet. Watch RCINC conjure up teams of 500$/hrs. lawyers to smear the individuals abused by district mgrs. aka “priests”.
Waiting for the usual defenders of RCINC to start their defense of their beloved organization....
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