Sunday, July 29, 2018

U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

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NUNS SAY “ME TOO”: MCCARRICK RESIGNS AMID CLAIMS OF GLOBAL ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH


.huffingtonpost.


VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick’s offer to resign from the College of Cardinals following allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and ordered him to conduct a “life of prayer and penance” in a home to be designated by the pontiff until a church trial is held, the Vatican said Saturday.

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Wuerl calls McCarrick’s resignation ‘big step forward’



The resignation of Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals following allegations of sex abuse makes him the highest-ranking American in the Catholic Church to ever be removed from the ministry.
In what’s being called an unprecedented move, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of former Archbishop of Washington Saturday, before the accusations are investigated by church officials. Francis received McCarrick’s resignation letter Friday.
“I think this was a big step forward in trying to act quickly, decisively, even though the whole procedure isn’t concluded yet,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl who succeeded McCarrick as the Archbishop of Washington. “The pope is saying that we need to show that we are hearing these things, paying attention and acting.”


4 comments :

  1. On the one hand the Catholic Church is prosecuting clergy for homosexual behavior -- at least to the extent it involved minors. On the other hand, the Catholic Church is no longer as opposed as it used to be to homosexual behavior.

    The latter development leaves the field in this regard to the fascist groups that definitively oppose homosexuality.

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  2. ..and on one hand Israel prosecutes rabbis for performing un 'unauthorized" wedding services.

    on the other hand Tel-Aviv is now the gay capital of the world. familiar ?

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  3. You really ought to research my posts. Start with this one:
    http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2018/06/guest-post-homosexuality-agudah-and.html?m=1

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  4. "American/daattorah lingua franca."


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