Posted on 12/03/2018 9:46:03 AM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, whose Galveston-Houston chancery was raided this week by prosecutors in search of abuse-related files, always struck me as a pretty haunted and compromised figure. DiNardo came out of Pittsburgh and the corrupt milieu of Cardinal John Wright, who was an accused pederast and a mentor to such slimy prelates as Donald Wuerl. Google DiNardo and Cardinal Wright and a creepy picture comes up of a young DiNardo sitting next to Wright in a white tuxedo. Wright liked to dress his seminarians up in such attire, just as Wuerl would later delight in having his young priests wear waiters’ uniforms and serve appetizers at parties held at his Pittsburgh mansion.
Many of the tributaries from the Church’s river of filth flowed out of Wright’s Pittsburgh. Wuerl, for one, who served as Wright’s secretary for many years, learned his nasty and self-indulgent clericalist habits at Wright’s knee. In the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills once recalled Wright’s life soaked in opulence, entitlement, and delusion:
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“whose Galveston-Houston chancery was raided this week by prosecutors in search of abuse-related files”
Not exactly. Dinardo invited them to come and search. He wants this crisis to end just as much as anyone.
Then why did the police come with a search warrant?
Because it’s required by law.
It’s only required by law when the defendant does not reveal all documentation requested, as DiNardo declined to do.
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