AP Exclusive: Despite denial, Pope got abuse victim's letter

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You called another poster a “Modernist” (although I’m not 100% sure you actually know what a “Modernist” is), and then you said “It’s not an insult, it’s the truth. It’s no more an insult than pronouncing a formal heretic a heretic,” which indicates to me that you feel qualified to pronounce on who is or is not a heretic.

Are you CDF? Well, nice to have you here, then. You’ll be a great resource.

Me, I’m just some guy posting. I’m certainly not more Catholic than the Pope.
 
OK. I defer to your (possible) status as a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
 
One day, history may look back on the abuse victim letter issue as the tipping point that led to the end of a papacy.
 
Interesting, I see it as a very successful Papacy, esp AL.
Perhaps our prior personal likes and dislikes are biasing our views and they arent objective at all.
 
This whole thing just makes me cringe.

I became Catholic at Easter 2002. That was the year, of course, that the sex abuse scandal hit the news in a big way in (at first) the Archdiocese of Boston. Every day during Lent seemed to bring more and more bad news from Boston and then from around the country. But gradually, things improved. The US bishops took serious steps toward child protection. Cardinal Law was replaced in Boston by O’Malley, who helped clean things up. And now years later, here we are – Cardinal O’Malley now in the Vatican and passing along a disturbing letter with allegations against a soon-to-be-installed bishop, the pope apparently dismissing those allegations without investigation, the pope calling those making allegations against the bishop “slanderers,” and O’Malley standing up for victims and calling the pope’s statements hurtful to victims.

What. A. Mess. I’m having flashbacks to 2002, honestly. Except this time, it’s not Cardinal Law but the pope in total denial about abuse in the Church.
 
It’s amazing how there has been all the time in the world to criticize allegedly “rigid” Catholics…but then an abuse victim’s letter is just ignored.
 
As the AP notes, this disclosure that Cardinal O’Malley and then the pope received this letter from a victim prior to Barros’ episcopal consecration adds additional context to O’Malley’s public criticism of the pope’s statements about Barros, doesn’t it? Based on what he said after the pope’s statements, Cardinal O’Malley looks like he’s either read the letter or at very least knows its contents. And the pope just looks like he’s ignored it.
 
His primary concern is protecting the Church. Its reputation.
 
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For those interested, the Thursday February 8 episode of The World Over with Raymond Arroyo had a short interview with the author of the letter.
 
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