Posted on 09/10/2018 7:13:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.
“I’m hurting, I can’t sleep, I’m sick,” the seminarian told Cupich during an Aug. 29 gathering at which the cardinal spoke to about 200 future priests enrolled at the seminary, according to another person who was there and spoke with the Chicago Sun-Times but asked not to be identified.
The seminarian told Cupich he was a young boy during the last scandal, in the early 2000s — amid a renewed wave of child-rape allegations against priests and cover-ups by their bishop bosses — and “thought this was over,” that the bishops had done their jobs.
Cupich thanked the man for speaking up and said he, too, was sick over the situation.
Minutes later, though, the cardinal said something that struck some of the seminarians as “tone-deaf.”
“I feel very much at peace at this moment. I am sleeping OK,” Cupich said, according to the person in attendance, a man studying to be a priest, who recalled that some fellow seminarians shook their heads in “disbelief.”
The source said Cupich also told the group that, while the church’s “agenda” certainly involves protecting kids from harm, “we have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this,” including helping the homeless and sick.
That account was confirmed by other sources, including another seminarian also present at the gathering.
One of them said he decided to speak with the Sun-Times because so many Catholics “are hurting,” the cardinal’s remarks were so “non-pastoral,” and “the people of God need to know that their seminarians care” and “aren’t going to repeat........
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They’re on the run.
Won’t be long now.
The Cardinal doesn’t really seem to think the behavior is wrong. I think he just regrets the bad publicity.
He's a psychopath ...
They’re not on the run. They’ve circled the wagons, and will now deal ruthlessly with those who tried to threaten their homoclerical demonocracy.
I'm sure I've told the story of meeting Bishop Cupich at a Irish Bar in the Mandalay Bay in Vegas a few yrs ago...he was hosting a get together for Gonzaga BB fans attending the tournament..
Bingo.
A very sick arrogant person.
Not going to happen. The train left the station a long time ago.
It is said the Vatican is preparing criminal charges against Archbishop Vigano.
That from what I have read the Vatican is looking at. But as I have said, the train has left the station, the plane has left the airport.
That from what I have read the Vatican is looking at. But as I have said, the train has left the station, the plane has left the airport.
The bus has left WHAT station?
Other than alienating some American Catholics, and confusing some Third World Catholics, the homoclerics will mostly keep their offices (a few scapegoats will be retired to leisure and rentboys), the gravy train, though potentially a bit diminished, will continue, and the homohierarchy will remain in charge.
The TRAIN has left the station.
Train, bus, airplane, pick your mode of transportation. You’re mouthing meaningless phrases.
There are few prospects for the homosexual network that runs the Church to come to an end.
Reminds me of a time during a Supreme Court Nomination... one of the guys at work put a sign on his door that said:
Sexual harrassment will not be reported. It will, however, be graded.
I saw that. That will a fuel to the fire. I’m surprised he hasn’t been Arkancided. I mean really, its the same type of evil vermin involved.
The archbishop, for fear of his life, has gone into hiding. The Vatican is actually trying to hunt him down, allegedly to “serve him papers.” Talk about “poison pen letters.”
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