McCarrick may be sanctioned, but the cover-up continues

Submitted by LocutusOP on Thu, 02/21/2019 - 23:53
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Frodo1945,  dfp3234574, shrink, fenton1015153 , Retired01, mary_conces3421 , DanS, ZIP5DO@aol.com, polish.pinecone4371          

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Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 23:45
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McCarrick may be sanctioned, but the cover-up continues

 

  • Posted by: Frodo1945 - Feb. 12, 2019 1:53 PM ET USA

    Laicization is too good for McCarrick. As a member of the lay faithful, I say we don't want an unrepentent predator. Excommunicate him if you are serious.

  • Posted by: dfp3234574 - Feb. 12, 2019 2:45 PM ET USA

    This is yet another unnecessarily mean-spirited analysis, Phil. McCarrick "will undoubtedly live out his remaining years in relative comfort," you say. "Relative comfort" in the middle of Kansas? What would you recommend, Phil? That he be strung upside down in the public square? We get it, Phil. You (just like John Allen) want to appear "tough" on abuse and not appear that you're some "Vatican flak." Fine. But in doing so, you have thrown all fairness, perspective, and charity out the window

 
  • Posted by: shrink - Feb. 12, 2019 3:41 PM ET USA

    Those who provide protection for a criminal, participate in a criminal conspiracy. He who provides protection for a criminal conspiracy is now involved in a meta-conspiracy. Unfortunately, our pontiff is a meta-conspirator, and at least a figurehead, if not the leader, of a crime syndicate within the Vatican.

  • Posted by: fenton1015153 - Feb. 12, 2019 6:49 PM ET USA

    I am always hopeful that serious and in depth action will be taken by the Church. I know that one day the Just Judge will sort the goats from the sheep. Sadly, it will be too late for the goats to work on their contrition. Pray for God's mercy to save us from hell.

  • Posted by: Retired01 - Feb. 12, 2019 7:01 PM ET USA

    Will we ever find out how McCarrick came to power? That is a good question. To carry on the modernist agenda, Pope Francis needs the support of the Lavender Mafia. Thus, he can only go so far in allowing the good question to be answered. Moreover, an honest answer to the good question could end up implicating him. We will have a better idea of what is going on after this month meeting in Rome.

  • Posted by: mary_conces3421 - Feb. 12, 2019 7:23 PM ET USA

    Wouldn’t those who helped him to power be mostly dead? Wouldn’t it be more important to investigate those he put in power,who are still there? Does he have “heirs” who carry on his “heritage”?? It would be great if he would publically repent. Otherwise, he’s history. Defrocking him is just, but no cure-all. Nor is unearthing the past.

  • Posted by: DanS - Feb. 12, 2019 8:15 PM ET USA

    @dfp: Uncle Ted sexually assaulted at least one minor boy FOR YEARS, not to mention many seminarians! And those are the crimes we know of! I’ll leave the condition of McCarrick’s soul to Our Lord, and I won’t sweat the details of his discomfort.

  • Posted by: ZIP5DO@aol.com - Feb. 12, 2019 10:54 PM ET USA

    Laicize, excommunicate, throw out, all is just but wholly agree with Phil that it is without meaning until we know who knew about Mccarrick yet still supported him and even moved him up the ladder. Eveyone he supported and moved up should be forced to resign. Good examples are Cupich and Tobin. I am sure there are others in the lavender mafia. Maybe this force them to show their faces. St Michael protect us.

  • Posted by: polish.pinecone4371 - Feb. 13, 2019 3:56 PM ET USA

    He should be reduced to the rank of deacon (or if it still existed, sub-deacon). That way he'll still be under obedience. Once he's laicized, no one has anymore control over him -- he's free to live and travel where he wills.

 
 
 
 
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If it was up to me McCarrick would have been hung by his delicates, or at the very least executed, upon finding out about his misdeeds, many years ago. Being that torture is intrinsically evil, I would like to think I would have gone for the execution than hanging by the balls, however much we would like to see a monster such as McCarrick - or Blair, or Rasmussen, or Sharon , or Cameron, or Hillary Clinton - suffer. Mind  you, his greatest crime is against the faith through sacrilege, and the minds he poisoned, and it is for that reason that he deserved death if anything.

That is long ago and he was protected from punishment, but now that the man is 88, it is not clear to me what the Church can do to punish him meaningfully even if the hiearchy was serious about tackling sexual abuse and homosexuality, which it is not. Being laicised is the least they could do, but I am not sure there is much more, for any excommunication granted to him would be meaningless given he would be accepted back in as soon as he repented, which he would probably do anyway in order to continue enjoying the comforts of his retirement.

The bigger issue, as some point out, is how he got to power, how he was allowed to carry on, and just what kind of perverts he has dragged into the Church - among whom I number Bergoglio, of course, given he is said to have been instrumental in getting that boorish oaf who passes as pope nowadays.