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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a long Catholic with 3 children in Catholic school and I am beyond disturbed by this recent news especially the further details in the American Conservative article.  The Church hierarchy continues to violate my trust and turn their back on the faithful.  How am I to trust the church and confess my sins to priests many of whom are sinfully evil themselves?  The entire Archdiocese of Washington must clean house.  It stands to reason that many in the Church hierarchy in DC must have known about McCarrick.  Anyone who  had knowledge of his situation committed a sin of commission and has to be removed from the ministry.  I fear that Cardinal Weurl must have known about this.  My favorite former parish priest is of his generation and now holds a considerable position of influence in the Church.  It literally brings me to tears and shakes my faith to think that he probably knew of this.  My husband and I are considering drafting a letter to our parish priest and copying Cardinal Weurl stating that we are suspending any further financial contributions to the Church until this situation is further investigated and all those who had knowledge removed from service I have steadfast faith in Jesus my Lord and Savior, but not in the sinful institution that the Catholic Church has become.  [/quote]

PP here whose parents worked for the Archdiocese of Newark.  I do not practice anymore, and I would not have found this thread if it were not for the Recent Topics section.  McCarrick was known to be an extensively promiscuous gay man.  Everyone knew this.  Seriously.  And everyone knew that he loved seminarians.  I read the first couple of paragraphs of the American Conservative article, but did not finish it.  I'm not surprised that the allegations involved seminarians.  It is funny to me that no mentioned at the beginning of the article, even with this creep approaching 90, seems to want to go on record of calling him out.  I think people were afraid of McCarrick, and he wielded a ton of power throughout the course of his career.

I hear the pain in your post and I am not mocking it.  However, I cannot help but involuntarily chuckle a bit, even though I don't want to and absolutely none of this is funny.  You're posting as if a couple dozen people might have known about McCarrick and should have done something.  Hundreds of people probably knew about McCarrick (and that's probably quite conservative, given that this was an open secret around the seminaries and pretty much all Diocesan priests in Newark knew).  I am telling you, the culture of secrecy around this stuff is completely pervasive within the ranks of the Catholic church.

This is your church.[/quote]

I fully recognize that we are talking about hundreds of people with knowledge about the situation.  The secrecy is intentional and systematic.  I appreciate your historical input, but none of this is amusing in the least.  [/quote]

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