https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/vatican-bombshell-mccarrick-conspiracy-uncovered/
Sigh. The Vatican seems to be the 'gift' that keeps on giving.
"Vatican Bombshell: McCarrick Conspiracy Uncovered!"
The American Conservative
By Rod Dreher 25 AUG 2018
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served at the papal nuncio (that is, Vatican ambassador) to the United States from 2011-2016, has dropped an atomic bomb on Francis’s papacy, charging that “corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy.â€
In a lengthy statement, Vigano says that Francis has known for years about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual abuse, but brought him into the pontifical inner circle anyway, and sent him around the world on papal missions.
In fact, says Vigano, the Roman curia has known about McCarrick since the year 2000, but McCarrick was protected by gay supporters honeycombed throughout the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI ordered McCarrick out of public ministry in 2009 or 2010, but McCarrick, abetted by powerful gay allies in the Curia, defied Benedict.
Vigano demands the resignation of Pope Francis, writing:
At the Angelus on Sunday, August 12, 2018 Pope Francis said these words: “Everyone is guilty for the good he could have done and did not do … If we do not oppose evil, we tacitly feed it. We need to intervene where evil is spreading; for evil spreads where daring Christians who oppose evil with good are lacking.â€
If this is rightly to be considered a serious moral responsibility for every believer, how much graver is it for the Church’s supreme pastor, who in the case of McCarrick not only did not oppose evil but associated himself in doing evil with someone he knew to be deeply corrupt. He followed the advice of someone he knew well to be a pervert, thus multiplying exponentially with his supreme authority the evil done by McCarrick. And how many other evil pastors is Francis still continuing to prop up in their active destruction of the Church!
Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren. Indeed, by his action he has divided them, led them into error, and encouraged the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ’s flock.
In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.
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In 2006, Vigano, working within the Curia, drafted a memo warning that the allegations against McCarrick were so severe that Rome should remove him from the cardinalate. He was ignored. He did so again in 2008, summarizing Richard Sipe’s open letter to Benedict. He was again ignored. Vigano believes that pro-gay Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then the Secretary of State, prevented the news from reaching Pope Benedict.
Finally, in 2009 or 2010, Pope Benedict learned of McCarrick’s sins, and “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis: the Cardinal was to leave the seminary where he was living, he was forbidden to celebrate [Mass] in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.â€
McCarrick was told of these sanctions face to face twice — by Vigano, and by his predecessor in Washington. Vigano says he informed Cardinal Wuerl about them as well. If true, Wuerl’s denials that he knew about McCarrick are lies. Says Vigano, “The Cardinal lies shamelessly.â€
McCarrick defied Benedict’s order.
Benedict’s sanctions against McCarrick were widely known among the most powerful cardinals in the Curia. Vigano names them in such a way as to indicate that they are all part of a gay mafia out to undermine Catholic teaching.
After Francis was elected, he set McCarrick free to wander the globe on his behalf. McCarrick became highly influential in Francis’s Vatican. Vigano: “In a team effort with Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, he had become the kingmaker for appointments in the Curia and the United States.â€
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Again . . . such goings on seem to be rife in:
--halls of political power
--universities etc.
--Hollyweed
--Corporation top & other levels of their hierarchies
--The RCC
--large & small Protestant congregations, universities, colleges and other groups.
As Scripture says--there is none righteous, no, not one.
It's tempting to rank sin. And, The Bible does seem to rank sexual sins among the lowest--particularly as idolatry.
Nevertheless, at some level, all addictions are hideous--whether gluttony, OCD, alcoholism, smoking, compulsive lying, drug abuse, workaholism etc. All are symptoms of insufficient quality daddy love the first 6-8 years of life resulting in a big inner hole that the addiction becomes a vain effort to fill.
And The Bible ranks cowardice and gossip there right along with sexual sins preventing entry to Heaven.
All of which to say--it is wise to AVOID the temptation to look self-righteously down a long nose and pointy finger at anyone else's sins with the least particle of smugness, or at all, period.
The only proper attitude is . . . There but for the Grace of God, go I. Lord, be merciful to ME, a sinner.
Nevertheless, we must be alert to protect our children, our congregations, our families, our friends and loved ones from such hideousness.
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