It's been two years and we're still waiting for the promised report about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. So much for Vatican transparency. Bishops have asked a number of times for the report to be released...the response?....crickets! Now why would that be?
Hmm.... Consider this from an article by Edward Pentin:
Questions also persist about his role in procuring donations from the Papal Foundation for a bankrupt Rome hospital, and his possible influence on the Vatican’s controversial approach to China. McCarrick had made a number of unofficial diplomatic visits to the country in the years before his removal from public ministry.
This question comes to mind. Is "mum's the word" on McCarrick more about "mum's the word" on Francis and his policies? Of course, as the Pentin article reports quoting an anonymous victim of McCarrick, "the sheer volume of information” makes him "personally inclined to grant all of the investigators all the time they need to do whatever work is necessary to get this done right once and for all.”
Since we don't know who this anonymous source is, my skeptical self wonders if he's McCarrick's imaginary friend -- just a smoke screen to delay, delay, delay and hope everyone goes to sleep and ignores the McCarrick scandal. (Listen for the snoring.)
Let's hope that the data on McCarrick and company will be revealed for the good of Holy Mother Church. For a timeline of the major events relating to the crisis during the past two years go here.
And now for the final question.... Where in the world is Mr. Theodore McCarrick? Is the Vatican waiting for him to die so they can bury the story with his dead body, or at least be sure his living voice isn't around to implicate any of his cronies like Cupich, Farrell, Wuerl, etc.? Evil bishops continue to thrive. Do you really think the scandals are behind us?
Don't hold your breath. Let it out in continuous groans and prayers to the Holy Spirit that our false shepherds will be exposed and removed!
My guess is that he's in the Turks and Caicos with his money in offshore accounts. When McCarrick was archbishop of Newark (1986-2000) he made the Turks and Caicos a "mission" of the Newark Archdiocese. His title for the "mission" was Ecclesiastical Superior of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1998-2000).
ReplyDeleteIn addition, when he secretly left Kansas in January 2020 it was reported that he went to Jacksonville FL (St Augustine Diocese) but they said that he was not there...that he was now a lay person and free to go anywhere....that the Church was no longer responsible for him.
On March 8th 2020 - two months after McCarrick left Kansas- I happened to be in St Augustine and went to Mass at a parish whose pastor mentioned in his homily that he had just returned from the Turks and Caicos Islands. This pastor holds various positions in diocesan programs - meaning he is well known and trusted by the chancery.
Since my favorite exercise is jumping to conclusions, I put two and two together and deduced that this pastor had possibly been visiting...or had even accompanied??... McCarrick in the Turks and Caicos.
In his homily he said, "I have just returned from the Turks and Caicos." ...He did not say "from a VACATION in the Turks and Caicos"...just that he had returned from there where he had been, but he did not say doing what or how long he had been gone.
Since the date of that Mass was March 8th, I assume that he went to the Turks and Caicos at least a week or two before that...about Feb 22 or March 1.
Just sayin'.
It occurs to me that, rather than laicizing a criminal like McCarrick, the Church should reduce him to the canonical status of a suspended priest, and place him under the authority of a bishop. But, I would be surprised if the Code provides for this. Or if any bishop would want to insure him!
ReplyDeleteNo. They are waiting for Archbishop Vigano to die (or be murdered) so he won't be around to challenge all the lies and obfuscation in the report. What the Vatican has to fear is that Vigano hasn't written a book with all the accompanying documentation that he will put into the hands of someone he trusts to be published in the event of an untimely death. Vigano knows where all the bodies are buried.
ReplyDeleteThey haven’t done any kind of an investigation. Why would they investigate themselves? They - Wuerl, Farrell, Gregory, Sorondo, Francis - already know what McCarrick did because they were in on it. There will be no report any more than there will be an answer to the dubia.
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