Pope Franciscus accepted the resignation of the Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl who stands accused of, while he was Bishop of Pittsburgh, having transferred Priests in his jurisdiction, of whom he knew that they were sexual predators, to other Dioceses without even informing the leadership of this new Diocese.
And this misdeed, this crime, was performed by Mr. Wuerl not only once or twice, but over 200 times. Over 200 times he protected criminals from prosecution, and allowed the predators to repeat their crimes on new victims. Not once, it seems, did Mr. Wuerl ask himself which agony, which despair he engendered in young boys and/or girls who were victimized by these low-down perverse hoodlums.
Is it possible that Wuerl in his own comparatively small group encountered over 200 criminals, but never wondered what is happening in other Dioceses? Did it never occur to him that similar criminal activities are likely to happen other places, where Catholic Priests had influence and authority?
Now, standing accused of "aiding and abetting" in this series of crimes, he comes up with the lamest of excuses imaginable:
He had, so he told the Pope, in each case consulted renowned Psychiatrists to ascertain if there existed a likelihood of the offenders to reoffend in their new locations.
Obviously these "Renowned Psychiatrists" assured him that there was no danger of them repeating their crimes. This must be the absolutely lamest, unbelievable excuse he could have offered.
These Sex Scandals, which are now being revealed and reported from all over the world are, so critics maintain, the "Greatest Crisis" in the Roman Catholic Church since the Reformation (500 years ago).
The mistrust harboured by the Congregation, by the individual members of this Organisation, extends not only to the ordinary Priest, but to the Bishops and Cardinals. and, unless Pope Francis cleans his house with an iron broom, this mistrust will engulf him too.
When a defender suggested that the Good which the RCC creates in this world surely outweighs these problems, a wise philosopher, whose name escapes me for the moment, replied that when you place into the scales along with the sexual crimes the anxieties, fears and despair created by the teachings of the RC Church, all the Good disappears into insignificance.
The promoting of two high ranking R.C. officials to Sainthood (now I understand there are four of those lucky people) provides a good, but temporary diversion from this Super Scandal.
Did Pope Francis know of the threatening bursting of this scandal and therefore rushed into this Sainthood "Punch and Judy show" to divert the praying population's attention from this serious crisis?
Bertstravels
just wonders
about so many things.
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