Posted on 01/19/2019 5:57:54 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME, January 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Vatican sources told Reuters that the disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is almost certain to be laicized following widely published allegations against him last summer that include the sexual abuse of a minor and adult seminarians.
The 88-year-old McCarrick, who now resides in a Carmelite monastery in Kansas, has responded to only one of the allegations, claiming he has "absolutely no recollection" of allegations that he sexually abused a 16-year-old boy more than 50 years ago. In 2018, Pope Francis ordered a "thorough study" of Vatican documents about allegations against McCarrick. In addition, the dioceses of Metuchen; New York; Newark; and Washington, D.C., where he served, have launched independent investigations.
According to Reuters, a Vatican source said a "canonical process" is examining the allegations and that no comment can be expected until it is completed. Pope Francis accepted McCarrick's resignation in July, ordering him to live in seclusion, prayer, and penitence, while refraining from public ministry. In June, church officials in the U.S. found that the allegations that McCarrick sexually abused a 16-year-old-boy were "credible and substantiated." One of the sources cited by Reuters said McCarrick's laicization would be the most prominent in modern times.
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"How on earth do you expect me to remember one boy 50 years ago? There were so many!"
Well he wasn’t looking at their faces.
see above
Excommunicate him.
All but the chief homo, bergoglio himself.
Defrocked isnt enough. He should be very publically excommunicated using the old bell, book and candle ritual
The guy’s 88. He can’t remember if he put his pants on this morning. How many la-de-das are sashaying around the Vatican while the masters-of-covering-things-up go after an octogenarian?
I like Scott Hahn (although he could afford to slack back a bit on using bad puns as chapter headings). It was basically his books that got me into the RC Church.
But as I understand it, McCarrick has already excommunicated himself by his actions. All a formal process would do would be to recognize the existing reality.
Bring back the old rite for “Degradation of a Cleric” Then bell-book-and-candle excommunication. Then turn him over to the secular authority...
Bergoglio is the one who needs to be defrocked.
Good. I think we need more focus on justice and causes, instead of vengeance.
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