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[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: McCarrick report reveals ‘web of corruption’His Excellency said the report did not give real accountability for the abuse within the Church.December 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas weighed in on several important current and relevant topics, including last month’s McCarrick Report released by the Vatican, in this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show.Strickland called the entire McCarrick case “a morality tale” with “all seven of the deadly sins … represented there, either by McCarrick himself or [by] those who were woven into the whole scandal with him.” The bishop noted that...

August 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life actress and Hollywood celebrity Patricia Heaton sharply criticized a statement from USCCB President Cardinal Daniel DiNardo regarding disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick on Twitter early Thursday morning, saying the Bishops’ had their shot at addressing the sexual abuse scandal and blew it. Cardinal DiNardo, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released a statement on Wednesday in which he expressed “anger, sadness, and shame” for the “grievous moral failure within the Church” regarding Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s sex-abuse accusations.  “Dear Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, The laity does not care how much shame you feel,”...

The Church’s failure to act more quickly, he (O'Malley) acknowledged, exposed a “major gap … in the Church’s policies on sexual conduct and sexual abuse.” And he called for a “strong and comprehensive policy” to address bishops’ violations of the vows of celibacy in cases of the criminal abuse of minors and in cases involving adults, outlining three important immediate goals. Yet, after decades of cover-up and silence — tactics that both facilitated Cardinal McCarrick’s rise to the top of the U.S. hierarchy and also discouraged his victims and others with knowledge of his predatory behavior from speaking out —...

ImageU.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick attends a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, April 18, 2005.CreditPier Paolo Cito/Associated Press One of the best things that the bishops of the American Catholic Church did during the great wave of sex abuse revelations 16 years ago — and yes, there’s a low bar for “best” — was to establish a National Review Board, staffed by prominent layman, with the authority to commission an independent report on what exactly had happened in the church. The result was a careful analysis by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice that detailed...

I will never forget what happened in May of 1993 when the then-archbishop of Newark, Theodore McCarrick, visited my home parish to preside at a special Mass. I had just graduated from college, and given that I was planning to enroll in the seminary later that year, my pastor decided to showcase me by assigning me as lector for the ceremony. The Archbishop arrived, we met, and after Mass we had another brief discussion before he departed. I asked one of our priests how he thought things went. "I can see that he really liked you," he said. "In fact,...

Christopher Manion, a veteran journalist and political analyst, makes the striking call that all U.S. bishops should resign who knew about the ongoing abuse crisis within the U.S. hierarchy for years and yet did not intervene. He also now reveals some painful aspects of the role of Rome in this regard – namely, the lame response from Pope John Paul II to this crisis. Writing on 30 June for the Catholic newspaper The Wanderer, Dr. Manion picks up on the McCarrick scandal and the fact that the gravely immoral behavior of this prelate had been known to many in the...

“Kingmaker,” Francis Cardinal Spellman, who ordained and/or consecrated many clerics among the sodomite ranks By Randy EngelFour Generations of Clerical Sexual Predators When is Enough, Enough? Introduction It’s been an “open secret,” for almost 100 years, that the American hierarchy has been plagued by homosexual/pederast predators within its ranks.That’s the bad news.The good news is that the current debacle over the revelations of homosexual tricks turned over by Cardinal “call-me-Uncle Teddy” McCarrick has provided an albeit totally unexpected but welcome opportunity for the handful of decent prelates who still have their religious and moral miters on straight to demonstrate...

For years, Paul Likoudis, our late and beloved colleague at The Wanderer, chronicled the role of homosexuality in the crimes committed by clerics. Long before The Boston Globe published its “exposé” in early 2002, Paul reported on one instance after another of abuse and cover-up in chanceries nationwide. For his yeoman efforts, he was ridiculed, hectored, threatened, bullied, and, above all, studiously ignored whenever possible by one guilty bishop after another. When The Globe’s series appeared in January 2002, the bishops could no longer persist in their obstinate denial. But they immediately insisted that they had the problem under control....