Vatican Defrocks Former Cardinal McCarrick, Finds Him Guilty Of Sex Abuse
The Vatican has defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, it said Saturday, making him the highest-ranking church official to date to be expelled from the priesthood for sex abuse.
A church tribunal found McCarrick guilty of "solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power,"
the Vatican said. Pope Francis has approved the ruling and there is no possibility of appeal, the statement said.
This prick McCarrick is a monster. It's kind of like finding Adolph Hitler guilty 50 years later - but what the Catholic Church fails to mention is that THEY saved their own skin for as long as they could, the "flock" - under the system wide failure of the Catholic Church and the Popes - that flock could rot in hell for all they cared.
like MEDFORD CITY HALL WITH A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE PUBLIC, THE CHURCH CHOSE TO TAKE THE LOW ROAD, JUST AS MEDFORD CITY GOVERNMENT UNDER BURKE, LAW OFFICE, OSBORNE, ETC. CHOOSE TO DO!
Just plain DESPICABLE
Reporting on Weekend Edition, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli said at the peak of his power, McCarrick was a "globe-trotting power broker" and one of the church's most powerful figures. He served as archbishop of Washington from 2000 to 2006, and he was elevated to the elite position of cardinal in 2001. His successor as Washington's archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, resigned last year after reports suggested he knew of widespread abuse while he was bishop of a Pennsylvania diocese but didn't act to stop it.
