Posted on 07/24/2018 6:52:22 PM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is reported to have lived alongside a Maryland house of formation for members of a religious order whose founder has faced Vatican charges of sexual misconduct.
St. John Baptist de la Salle is located in Chillum, Md., adjacent to Washington, D.C. The parish is staffed by the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), and the property serves as the headquarters of the community's Province of the Immaculate Conception.
The Institute of the Incarnate Word was founded in 1984 in Argentina by Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela. In 2016, the Vatican affirmed the veracity of allegations that Buela engaged in sexual improprieties with adult seminarians of his community.
Buela, who retired in 2010, was forbidden by the Vatican from contact with members of the IVE, and from appearing in public.
In addition to the church building, the Maryland property includes two additional buildings, one of which is Ven. Fulton Sheen Seminary. The seminary forms men aspiring to be priests of the IVE, and opened in 1998. According to its website, the seminary currently houses 41 men in formation.
The third building, perhaps where the cardinal stayed, was not visible in a Google Street View Image dated July 2009, but had been constructed by May 2012.
Sources told CNA that Cardinal McCarrick lived with the IVE community at St. John Baptist de la Salle during his retirement, after residing for a period at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary of the Archdiocese of Washington.
One source close to the Archdiocese of Washington told CNA that the cardinal had for a time an IVE brother in formation living in his residence, which was on the parish property but separate from the house of formation.
An additional source also told CNA that McCarrick had young priest and seminarian assistants while living with the IVE, but did not comment on whether any seminarian resided with the cardinal.
An Archdiocese of Washington spokesperson did not confirm those reports. The spokesperson told CNA that Cardinal McCarrick “made his own living arrangements for his retirement,” as well as his own arrangements for secretarial assistance.
“I can’t comment on how long he was at the John Baptist de la Salle property,” the spokesperson added.
Cardinal McCarrick is reportedly close to the IVE, often conferring ordination for the Immaculate Conception province, doing so as late as May 28.
Directories from the Archdiocese of Washington demonstrate that Fr. Andrew Whiting, IVE, served as priest secretary to Cardinal McCarrick from at least 2014 through 2017. Whiting was ordained a deacon by McCarrick in 2013, and a priest in 2014.
The 2018 directory lists Br. Andy Kemtz, IVE, as secretary to the cardinal, and gives St. John Baptist de la Salle as his residence.
Cardinal McCarrick has been the subject of several accusations of child sexual abuse and sexual misconduct involving seminarians and priests in recent months.
He was suspended from exercising his ministry in June following an investigation into a charge of sexual abuse, and last week he was accused of the sexual abuse of a minor.
McCarrick was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, and then served there as an auxiliary bishop.
He was bishop of two New Jersey dioceses before he was appointed Archbishop of Washington in 2000, where he served until his retirement in 2006.
In 2005 and 2007, two men received settlements from New Jersey dioceses over their abuse at the hands of McCarrick, who abused them while they were seminarians and priests.
The Institute of the Incarnate Word could not be reached for comment.
An additional source also told CNA that McCarrick had young priest and seminarian assistants while living with the IVE, but did not comment on whether any seminarian resided with the cardinal.
When I think about it now, getting DC was a jackpot for the homo. DC is rife with seminaries. Right down the road is the Catholic University of America, a pontifical university for the United States, and which hundreds of seminarians attend. Across from CUA was Theological College, the archdiocesan seminary, usually called “Theological Closet” for the overwhelming number of homo seminarians.
Ive been kicked off of many for even commenting on them....
You know....IF you're not a cahtoLIC you have no right to say anything.....kinda like the muslim thread on DU...
Yes.
If my catholic church is to survive, priests must be allowed to marry as in the Greek Orthodox Church which is basically Catholic. I know men that would be most willing to take up the vows of priesthood but if the cost were celibacy they would not. They love their wives. As such the rules of the Catholic church attract those that have no need of women. It has corrupted my Catholic Church.
These types of scandals are rare in the Greek Orthodox Church. The vows of celibacy for priests create a climate that attracts homosexuals to the clergy and thus horrid crimes against the church and often youth.
I have also known priests of honor and not homosexual. It is a travesty to impose on these good priests the vows of celibacy. It is unnatural to man. Oddly the homosexual clergy know it is unnatural also but they do not need a wife. They corrupt my church. This is killing my church.
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Most priests are good men and not guilty of bad acts.
Other religious denominations with married clergy have made it clear they have the same problems; it is the role, not the celibacy, that is the issue. As it is with coaches, scout leaders, teachers - all permitted to marry. When this scandal broke in the news about 15 years ago, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League outlined five cases of abuse in the NYC public school system in one week; he had perp names, schools, etc. - and not a peep from the media.
“Most priests are good men and not guilty of bad acts.”
Less and less people believe this by the day; while many aren’t perps, there is a wall of silence that spread this disease/these crimes.
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