Posted on 11/11/2018 3:50:12 PM PST by ebb tide
And his cronies, even at this late hour, still practice to deceive.
Ever since Theodore McCarricks exposure as a molester earlier this year, his cronies, patrons, and protectors have downplayed his squalid crimes. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, his successor who sent underlings to work for him even after learning of an investigation into his abuse, pooh-poohed the McCarrick scandal. I dont think this is some massive, massive crisis, he said. Now Fr. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, which conferred honors upon McCarrick before his scandal, warned Catholics this week not to turn McCarrick into a monster.
Jenkins cast McCarricks molesting of an altar boy in the sacristy, molesting another underage male teen for years, and forcing countless seminarians into his bed as a tragic foible confined to one part of his life. He said to Crux: [The tendency is] just to imagine that they are thoroughly corrupt people, but the problem is that its not true. Its a part of their lives that is deeply problematic, but another part that is not.
Jenkins refuses to withdraw Notre Dames awards to McCarrick since he maintains his innocence and hasnt had his day in Vatican court yet. Maintains his innocence? What a disgusting sham, given that McCarrick is under the protection of Church officials who could have demanded he come clean months ago as the most minimal of conditions for his continued financial support from the faithfuls hard-earned donations.
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Ping
No excuses but this is the failing of the Catholic Church for years. I know his family and pray for them.
Thank God for the Reformation
Mind you, these prelates need to swing from lamp-posts. But the statistics on other organizations, such as public schools and the Protestant ministry, make the Catholic priesthood look pure as lilies by comparison.
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