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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS AND DISGRACEFUL

They must take us for a bunch of idiots!

Vatican corrects omission in pope's quote about McCarrick

NICOLE WINFIELD,Associated Press 3 hours ago

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

So I guess the Vatican won’t bother to release their extensive investigation into the affair, if the Pope already told them what the conclusion should be? It’s a typical bureaucratic response: mistakes were made, but nobody made them.

Dan said...

Methinks, someone realized that reasonable people did not believe Francis.

Disgraceful.

Fr Martin Fox said...

This is actually worse: the pope is saying he might have been told one of his cardinals was sleeping with seminarians, and he doesn't remember hearing it?

Sad to say, this actually is believable. It suggests one or both of the following:

- When the subject came up, the pope just wasn't really listening; he may even have asked questions, but the subject matter wasn't terribly important to him. His mind was already on to something else. Result: what was told to him barely registered.

- The pope is aware of lots of immorality among clergy, so this report wasn't shocking and again, didn't really register.

Please, someone tell the Holy Father this is terrible, and he needs to show some real humility on this subject. Be completely candid, if he made mistakes, own up to them, and stop being defensive and trying to blame others.

TJM said...

Father McDonald,

Off topic but I thought you would be interested in this story. Cardinal Cupich ordained 8 men to the priesthood and two of them (25%) of those ordained were from St. John Cantius. There first Masses were EF. I imagine that had to frost him and the other lefties in the Archdiocese.

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2019/05/first-masses-at-st-john-cantius-in.html#more

TJM said...

correction. One of the priests said the EF, the other the OF. The OF is done there ad orientem and I assume he said it in Latin, but Bee would know for sure.

Victor said...

As Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes would say "I zee noting."
The problem is, the pope as top administrator should have known about an issue of such serious magnitude. It is pure incompetence not to have known or not to remember it. As a matter of fact, in the secular world, a CEO caught up in a scandal of this magnitude would be forced to resign, something Vagano suggested the pope do volintarily. But then Vagano has also called the pope a liar on this. So which is worse, being a liar or being incompetent?

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Amen Fr. Martin!

Anonymous said...

Lifesite has an interview with Viganò about all this. The article implies that when Francis said he would not say anything on the plane and told the press to do their own digging, he was referring not to Viganò’s accusations, but Viganò himself. In other words, he wouldn’t disparage Vigano’s credibility, he wanted the press to do it for him.

I wonder if Peter did the same when challenged by Paul? Sic his henchmen to did up dirt?

Hillary said...

It looks like Russian interference to me.

Fr Martin Fox said...

Let me add something else; although it's been said before, it merits repetition:

The way the Holy Father and others in the Vatican are handling this is clericalism on steroids. Questions are treated as an intrusion. The faithful are given the silent treatment and expected to be fine with that. The pope claims the right to answer questions only if he wants to, only when he wants to, if at all -- and that's supposed to be good enough. Asking for details is rude and disrespectful. Everyone should just trust the pope and his advisors! And how will the bishops be held accountable? By themselves!

Holy Father, if you are really against clericalism, THIS IS CLERICALISM.

johnnyc said...

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/05/29/uncle-ted-and-me/


It seems this guy McCarrick was the go to for the liberals in the Vatican concerning the Church in the U.S. Might it be they looked the other way in regards to his homosexual abuse in order not to lose a leftist ally?

Catechist Kev said...

Fr. Fox (@ 5:02), you are...

Right. On. Target.

Anonymous said...

Yes, indeed, Fr. Fox!