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Offline Viva Cristo Rey

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McCarrick Resigns
« on: July 30, 2018, 10:31:18 PM »
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    Pope Francis accepts resignation of McCarrick from College of Cardinals
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    By Hannah Brockhaus
    Vatican City, Jul 28, 2018 / 04:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Saturday Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishops Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals, and suspended him from the exercise of any public ministry.
    Pope Francis accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the cardinalate July 28 and applied a suspension a divinis, which according to canon 1333 in the Code of Canon Law, prohibits him from acts of the power of order and governance and from the exercise of the rights or functions attached to his office.
    The pope also directed McCarrick to observe “a life of prayer and penance in seclusion” until the end of the canonical process against him, stated a July 28 press release from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
    Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, responded to the Pope’s actions in a Saturday morning statement.
    “I thank the Holy Father for his leadership in taking this important step. It reflects the priority the Holy Father places on the need for protection and care for all our people and the way failures in this area affect the life of the Church in the United States,” he said.


    According to a statement from the Vatican, McCarrick submitted his letter of resignation to Pope Francis Friday evening.
    Only a pope can approve the resignation of a cardinal from his official status, and it is a measure which, historically, the Church has used very rarely – though this is the second time Pope Francis will have employed similar measures.
    The first was in March 2015 when the pope accepted the resignation of now-deceased Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
    Cardinal O’Brien lived in similar conditions to those now imposed on McCarrick, until his death in March of this year; though while he resigned the “rights and privileges” of a cardinal, he was allowed to keep the title.
    O’Brien stepped down as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland following the February 2014 revelation of allegations that he had participated in inappropriate sɛҳuąƖ behavior with other men in the 1980s.
    Because of the scandal, O’Brien recused himself from participating in the March 2013 conclave that elected Francis. In May 2013, after meeting with the newly-elected pope, O’Brien left Scotland for a time of prayer, penance and reflection. Almost two years later Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate.
    The Vatican’s decision to suspend McCarrick follows more than a month of unfolding allegations concerning the prelate.
    On June 20, the Archdiocese of New York announced that it had concluded an investigation into an allegation that McCarrick had sɛҳuąƖly abused a teenager, finding the claim to be “credible and substantiated.”  
    The Vatican was informed of that accusation, and as a result, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, by order of Pope Francis, prohibited McCarrick, 88, from public ministry.


    Since that announcement, media reports have detailed additional allegations, charging that McCarrick sɛҳuąƖly abused, assaulted, or coerced seminarians and young priests during his time as a bishop. The Diocese of Metuchen and Archdiocese of Newark disclosed that they had received reports that McCarrick engaged in sɛҳuąƖ misconduct with adults, and reached legal and financial settlements in two cases.
    The New York Times reported July 19 a Virginia man’s allegation that McCarrick began sɛҳuąƖly abusing him in 1969, when the priest was 39 and the man, “James,” whose full name has not been reported, was 11 years old. McCarrick was reportedly a friend to the alleged victim’s family.
    The man says that he continued to be sɛҳuąƖly abused by McCarrick for almost two decades, the Times reported.
    The man claims the abuse contributed to alcohol and drug habits that plagued him for years. He also says he attempted to disclose the abuse to his father several years after it began, but was disbelieved, according to the Times.
    This story has been edited to add Cardinal DiNardo’s July 28 statement.
     
     
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    Re: McCarrick Resigns
    « Reply #1 on: July 30, 2018, 10:38:50 PM »
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    • The Vatican should excommunicate and defrock these men immediately.   These men belong in prison; not some Vatican safe space for their sodomites.  

    They were quick to send to prison a employee who leaked information.

    They persecuted Archbishop Lefebvre while protecting sodomites.


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    Re: McCarrick Resigns
    « Reply #2 on: August 04, 2018, 04:47:48 AM »
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    • Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (U.S.A.), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals.
    Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial.

    http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/28/0548/01187.html
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    Re: McCarrick Resigns
    « Reply #3 on: August 04, 2018, 06:27:34 AM »
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    • Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey on July 30, 2018, 10:38:50 PM
    The Vatican should excommunicate and defrock these men immediately.   These men belong in prison; not some Vatican safe space for their sodomites.  

    They were quick to send to prison a employee who leaked information.

    They persecuted Archbishop Lefebvre while protecting sodomites.

    "When I was in the seminary in the early 1950s, my superior in the seminary said at that time, we were being inundated with ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, and he was doing his best to weed them out....."

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    Re: McCarrick Resigns
    « Reply #4 on: August 05, 2018, 01:55:28 PM »
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    • Are the trad seminaries accepting of this kind of filth too? The Novus Ordo types have been saying there's problems in trad orders too but I find that difficult to believe because the trad laity would shut off the $$$ pretty quickly.
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    Re: McCarrick Resigns
    « Reply #5 on: August 06, 2018, 01:10:08 AM »
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    • Quote from: catquilt on August 05, 2018, 01:55:28 PM
    Are the trad seminaries accepting of this kind of filth too? The Novus Ordo types have been saying there's problems in trad orders too but I find that difficult to believe because the trad laity would shut off the $$$ pretty quickly.
    I don't think this problem is going to go away. St Catherine of Sienna wrote about this situation in the 14th century.
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