Pope Francis is Ready to Address Claims

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He retired at age 75, so he doesn’t have much of a career to look forward to now at 77 or 78. However, you made me chuckle as I can picture the pope telling him to put a finger anywhere on the globe and saying “Ah, Ketchikan Alaska!”

Beauty at cold temperatures is beauty LOL

 
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Is it really impatience that causes some to want a clear and timely response?

McCarrick’s behavior was reported at least 18 years ago! Most only heard of it this year, although plenty within the episcopacy have known or should have known since that time. And despite what Cd Wuerl would like us to believe, this IS “a massive, massive crisis.”

Here are some news reports on sexual abuse scandals suppressed by the episcopacy:

USA http://www.ncregister.com/blog/guest-blogger/roundup-blog-statements-on-mccarrick-by-u.s.-bishops

Chile Catholic Church Faces Reckoning in Chile as Sex Abuse Scandal Widens - The New York Times

Honduras http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/honduran-seminarians-allege-widespread-homosexual-misconduct

Australia Australian Archbishop Sentenced To Home Detention For Sex Abuse Cover-Up : NPR
 
Vigano didn’t “sit on accusations for years.” Why discount that he “…believed and hoped,” as his sworn testimony states, “that the hierarchy of the Church could find within itself the spiritual resources and strength to tell the whole truth…”? High high-ranking prelates were acting as if they had not known and were expressing shock and disbelief about the McCarrick case. AB Vigano states that his conscience dictated he make known the truth, for the good of the Church.

The length of time it’s taking to merely respond to the Bishops’ request for an investigation is troubling.

Comparing the silence of Christ to the silence of Pope Francis and those implicated is troubling.

Saying that it seems that the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops by uncovering sins to scandalize people is troubling.

*Will there even be a REAL investigation?
*Will the rebuttal be sworn testimony?
*Where is the 300 page dossier on financial and moral corruption in the Vatican compiled by 3 Cardinals and given to Pope Francis at the beginning of his pontificate?
*Where are the documents AB Vigano says can be found in the apostolic nunciature and the Vatican?
 
Is it really impatience that causes some to want a clear and timely response?
That is arguing the definition. But yes, I think wanting something now meets that definition. With such a diverse accusation made, I think it only just that the Pope have time to develop a thoughtful and researched response. Vigano developed his accusations over a much longer period of time.
 
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Saying that it seems that the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops by uncovering sins to scandalize people is troubling.
This is quite troubling for me as well. To state that Satan tries to “uncover the sin, so they are visible to scandalize the people” is a very poor choice of words. Are we then to conclude that those bishops who do not uncover the sins (i.e., but rather cover them) are to be deemed saintly?
 
Calumny is still a thing, you know, as in a sin. Child sexual abuse is different in that there is now recognized a need for the public to know who sex offenders are. However, even the government did not see this as something everyone needed to know until the 1990’s when most states enacted their sex offender registries and the first federal law was past to have a national registry.

Hindsight has great clarity, which is why we can only judge some matters in the historical context.
 
It us now reported that the Holy Father will be meeting with Cardinal DiNardo on Thursday. Also Cardinal Wuerl is apparently stepping down.

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I am heartened that it will be Cardinal diNardo leading this entourage. He is level-headed and balanced, has not patience with this sort of scandal, yet has a deep pastoral side. I hope sanity and charity prevail.
 
Hindsight has great clarity, which is why we can only judge some matters in the historical context.
Historically and canonically, the Church excluded unchaste men from entrance into seminaries. There has been almost 2,000 years of objective criteria for judging a canidate’s worthiness for the sacred office of the priesthood: habitual chastity was a prerequisite. A subjective, more merciful application of judgement has supplanted what worked for centuries to protect the purity of the priesthood.

I’ve posted elsewhere what St Pius V, St Basil the Great, and St Peter Damien mandated regarding those in the clergy caught engaging in this sort of deviant behavior plaguing the Church. Harsh? Not if salvation of souls is the primary obligation of the Church, as it used to be.

This crisis demands a return to traditional methods of safeguarding the sacred office of the priesthood…not looking to how the world responds and following suit. Becoming worldly minded is what got us mired in the mess in the first place.
 
Also Cardinal Wuerl is apparently stepping down.
Really, scandal or not, it’s about time for him anyway. He already submitted his resignation nearly three years ago as per canon law. Traditionally, popes are slow to accept the resignations of cardinals. But by the time they get to about 78, they tend to actually retire.
 
It really bothers me when people whitewash Church history. Sexual scandals and impropriety among clergy and monks were common in the Middle Ages…
 
Enforcement of penalties for sexual improprieties was maybe not enforced as rigorously as laws called for in the Middle Ages, but at least they recognized that the sins of sodomy merited fire from heaven. The Church has always taught objectively about sodomy. Today, the merciful approach has been to diminish the reality. See the following: 12 Quotes Against Sodomy That Every Catholic Should Know - TFP Student Action

How many in the episcopacy are willing to address the rot at the root? The problem today is that BELIEF has been perverted. (I.E. God made people homosexual. He put those desires in the human heart. Our “enlightened” understanding supported by our belief in science confirms homosexuality isn’t a disorder. Who are we to judge God?)
 
Where is Church history being whitewashed? Actually I have seen articles talking about how the Church was able to overcome problems in its past as a sign that it will survive, and possibly improve, as the ongoing crisis is resolved.
 
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