In the face of continuing non-denial denials from the Vatican, Paul Rahe
advances the story:
In the last few weeks, we have received further evidence of the power of the prelate-pederasts. A grand jury convened in Pennsylvania has revealed that Donald Wuerl, while bishop of Pittsburgh, covered up a priest-run child-porn ring and a host of other abuse cases involving something on the order of 100 priests, using the age-old trick of pay-offs and non-disclosure agreements. This did not stop him from being named archbishop of Washington DC and of being made a cardinal — which is to say, a Prince of the Church.
He was not even high on the list of possible nominees submitted by the Papal Nuncio. Someone powerful in the Vatican wanted him promoted, and Pope Francis responded to the news of his guilt not by ordering an investigation into Wuerl’s promotion, but with a dodge — by attributing collective guilt to us all.
We all are sinners, but collective guilt is something else entirely. But there's more -- back to Rahe:
In the meantime, Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume, former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C. has emerged to confirm that Viganò‘s predecessor had been instructed to confine McCarrick by Pope Benedict, that he had witnessed the confrontation with McCarrick, and that everything else that Viganò had said was true. To this, we must add that Viganò named names in the Vatican, specifying which high officials had obstructed the investigation into McCarrick’s conduct.
As all of this suggests, we are now at a turning point. The Lavender Mafia controls the papacy and the Vatican overall, and Pope Francis is packing the College of Cardinals, who will elect the next pope, with sympathizers. Pope Francis and his minions have now been exposed, named, and shamed; and there will be a civil war within the Roman Catholic Church.
Either Francis leaves and his supporters and clients are purged, or the church is conceded to those who for decades have sheltered and promoted the pederasts and those who regard their abuse of minors as an indifferent matter. It is time that those bishops, archbishops, and cardinals who are innocent of such conduct stand up and force a house-cleaning. In the meantime, the laity should speak up loud and clear.
I need to know more, but I'm definitely clearing my throat. There's a lot more at the link. It's worth your time.
4 comments:
After only 2,000 years of organizational infighting and corruption, I am shocked there could be distinct political factions in the ruling class fighting over who's in charge of the church.
Shocking, and I hope someone gets past this level to the actual documents and original sources. Time to raise some H*** about this. Note; World Magazine has done a parallel story about Protestants which suggests that between 20 and 50% of pastors have had some form of sexual relationship outside of marriage. The fit is about to hit the shan, and although I anticipate parts of it being extremely rough on the church, I welcome it.
The Vatican is in a strong position, if the example of the Anglican church from 10-15 years ago means anything. When the more conservative churches in America and Africa sought to disconnect from the leadership they faced frozen pensions and expensive legal bills over who owned the buildings and property the "rebel" churches were on. The issue faded from the front pages, and I don't know how it ultimately shook out for the rebels. I may need to dig into that again. Certainly the main-line Protestant denominations have similar control over their members.
Perhaps the lines have been drawn and the battles already fought. The denomination may own the buildings, but they don't own the hearts. A lot of impressive looking structures are mostly empty these days.
RA, most of the conservatives have left, or are in the process of leaving, the Anglican/Episcopal churches. Lots of court cases over the property, depending on the laws of the state. Same basic thing with the ELCA.
In this case, though, there is the additional factor of peoples' kids being molested. You cannot hide behind the courts as much when people are coming for you with pitchforks and torches, and it's not just Catholics that are going to be impacted. A World Magazine article suggests 20% of evangelical pastors and 50% of mainline church pastors have had sex of some sort with a parishioner outside of marriage. Even if mostly consensual, that's a lot of marches to the castle of Dr. Frankenstein coming up, and a lot of people that need to be leaving pulpits.
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