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Swordsmyth
06-20-2018, 08:38 PM
The Vatican has asked retired Washington, D.C., Archbishop Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, to cease public ministry after finding he was credibly accused of sexually abusing a teenager almost 50 years ago, the archdiocese and McCarrick said on Wednesday.McCarrick is among the highest-ranking of the more than 6,700 U.S. Roman Catholic clerics to be accused of sexually abusing children since the church's sex abuse scandal broke in 2002, according to BishopAccountability.org, a private group that tracks the allegations.
McCarrick, 87, was accused of sexually abusing a teenager when he was a priest in New York, he said in a statement. He said he was innocent, but an investigation by the Church found the allegations to be credible and substantiated, the archdiocese said in a statement.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/catholic-cardinal-washington-accused-sex-abuse-151615458.html

oyarde
06-20-2018, 08:52 PM
Substantial . If they say that must be really worse than anyone thinks .

Swordsmyth
07-28-2018, 09:39 PM
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17485360/catholic-official-suspended-child-sex-abuse-theodore-mccarrick-archbishop-dc), former archbishop of Washington, DC and a prominent figure inthe United States Catholic Church, has stepped down amid accusations of sexual abuse. Pope Francis accepted (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-07/pope-francis-cardinal-mccarrick-resignation.html) his resignation from the College of Cardinals on Friday evening.
McCarrick, 88, has been at the center of a growing scandal (https://www.vox.com/2018/5/18/17369244/pope-francis-chile-bishops-sex-abuse-resign) within the churchover allegations of abuse (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-abuse-mccarrick/pope-accepts-mccarrick-resignation-as-cardinal-following-sex-abuse-scandal-idUSKBN1KI0AD) with minors and adult men. In June, the church suspended (https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17485360/catholic-official-suspended-child-sex-abuse-theodore-mccarrick-archbishop-dc) McCarrick from ministry after finding credible (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/theodore-mccarrick-sex-abuse.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer) allegations that he sexually abused a minor 47 years ago while he was a parish priest in New York. McCarrick said he was innocent (https://adw.org/news/statement-of-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-retired-archbishop-of-washington/), but since then, multiple other reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/28/cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-facing-sexual-abuse-reports-resigns-from-the-college-of-cardinals/?utm_term=.0127d106e578) have surfaced.
Upon accepting McCarrick’s resignation, Pope Francis ordered him to seclusion (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-07/pope-francis-cardinal-mccarrick-resignation.html) to observe “a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial.”
The scandal surrounding McCarrick and his resignation has stunned the US Catholic Church. While he retired as archbishop in 2006, he had stayed active (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/06/20/cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-former-archbishop-of-washington-has-been-removed-from-ministry-after-a-sex-abuse-allegation/?utm_term=.8d2021bfb687) as a prominent diplomat of the church. According to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/28/cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-facing-sexual-abuse-reports-resigns-from-the-college-of-cardinals/?utm_term=.0127d106e578), McCarrick is the highest-ranking US Catholic clergy member to be removed from ministry because of sexual abuse allegations.

More at: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/28/17624948/archbishop-theodore-mccarrick-pope-francis-resigns

Anti Globalist
07-29-2018, 12:22 PM
Religious figures abusing children? How shocking.

Swordsmyth
08-29-2018, 11:14 PM
A group of Catholics empowered to advise U.S. bishops on their handling of clergy sex abuse is accusing the bishops of "a loss of moral leadership" and recommending that lay Catholics like themselves should henceforth be responsible for investigating clergy misconduct.
The National Review Board, a lay panel established in 2002 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a strongly worded statement (http://www.usccb.org/news/2018/18-144.cfm) that allegations against former Washington, D.C., Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and accounts of clergy abuse detailed in a recent Pennsylvania grand jury report reflect "a systemic problem within the Church that can no longer be ignored or tolerated by the episcopacy in the United States."

"The evil of the crimes that have been perpetrated reaching into the highest levels of the hierarchy will not be stemmed simply by the creation of new committees, policies, or procedures," the group charged. "Holding bishops accountable will require an independent review [of an abuse allegation]. ... The only way to ensure the independence of such a review is to entrust this to the laity."


The review board's statement echoes past criticism that bishops for too long have insisted that they alone are responsible for policing each other, a process they term (http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/Charter-for-the-Protection-of-Children-and-Young-People-revised-2011.pdf) "fraternal correction."
"They didn't trust lay people to know what the problem was," says Nicholas Cafardi, dean emeritus at Duquesne University Law School and a former NRB chairman.
In its statement, the NRB called for the establishment of "an anonymous whistleblower policy" modeled after those employed in corporations, higher education and other public and private institutions, to be administered by an organization independent of the Catholic hierarchy. Such a group, the NRB recommended, should be established immediately and given the responsibility of reporting allegations of clergy abuse "to the local bishop, local law enforcement, the nuncio and Rome." (A nuncio is the Vatican ambassador to a country.)

More at: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642760992/catholic-lay-group-wants-more-responsibility-to-investigate-clergy-sexual-abuse

r3volution 3.0
08-29-2018, 11:27 PM
First this (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?525906-Forgotten-Study-Abuse-in-School-100-Times-Worse-than-by-Priests&p=6674082&viewfull=1#post6674082)

Then, if there's going to be a degenerate criminal hiding behind the cloth, it would be in D.C., wouldn't it?

Swordsmyth
02-16-2019, 07:07 PM
A former Roman Catholic Cardinal who was forced to resign from his office for sexual abuse last summer was dismissed from the clerical state in a Vatican trial on Friday.
Theodore McCarrick, 88, is the most senior member of the Catholic clergy to be defrocked in modern times. McCarrick was officially removed from the clergy on charges of soliciting sex while hearing confessions.
McCarrick had been first busted in July when a former altar boy went public with a story that involved McCarrick unzipping his pants and groping him in New York 1972. Another adult man then came public with his account of being abused by McCarrick as a boy, beginning when he was 11.
The sexual abuse accusations against the Cardinal led to several former Catholic seminarians stepping forward with accounts of McCarrick’s gay relationships with them. McCarrick had gained a reputation for abusive solicitation of men studying at seminaries to become Catholic priests.

More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/child-molesting-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-defrocked/

RonZeplin
02-16-2019, 07:30 PM
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George W Bush and McCarrick

brushfire
02-16-2019, 08:43 PM
https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/1369281/thumbs/o-POPE-FRANCIS-900.jpg?1

Anti Globalist
02-16-2019, 09:52 PM
Needless to say nobody should have any respect for the Catholic church at this point.

JohnCifelli1
02-16-2019, 10:24 PM
Why? I was an altar boy, and the priest who I served, I asked to marry my wife and I many years later. He was always a positive influence on me. Don't throw out the baby.

RonZeplin
02-16-2019, 10:55 PM
Needless to say nobody should have any respect for the Catholic church at this point.Melania Trump is the first Catholic first lady since Jackie Kennedy
(https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/melania-trump-catholic/index.html)
The pontiff blessed first lady Melania Trump's rosary at the Vatican

After shaking his hand and exchanging pleasantries, the first lady held her rosary beads in her left hand, extended to Pope Francis, who then blessed them, bending to make the sign of the cross, placing his right hand over hers. The entire exchange took less than 10 seconds, but for a Catholic, a blessing of beads by the Pope is a pinnacle of holy ceremony.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170525163010-melania-trump-pope-exlarge-169.jpg

That Trump even had rosary beads was news -- practicing Catholics often use the beads for prayers, moving fingers along each bead to keep track of how many times each is said, and repeated. Although Trump was raised in Slovenia, a country whose religious population is predominantly Catholic, she married Donald Trump