Posted on 01/13/2019 9:58:58 AM PST by ebb tide
Long before he concealed McCarrick’s misconduct, he had done the same for his mentor.
In the latest revelation about Donald Wuerl — that, contrary to his claims of ignorance, he knew about McCarrick’s misconduct for at least 14 years — he emerges as the amoral but self-protective bureaucrat, undone by his own pass-the-buck-style record-keeping, which gives a grimly ironic dimension to his downfall.
Wuerl’s policy wasn’t one of zero tolerance but of zero legal exposure, and toward that end he needed to keep records of complaints he had received and transmitted to the papal nuncio.
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Richard Nixon in a pointy hat.
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