19 March AD 2024

SEX SCANDAL & COVER-UP: MONDAY EDITION

Sphere within Sphere at the Vatican Museums (Credit: Flickr)

In Charting New McCarrick Probe, Vatican Concedes Likely Cover-Up

. . .with the announcement, the Vatican’s first formal comment on the McCarrick case since the 88 year-old’s resignation from the College, the coming probe will be the 2nd broad internal investigation born from the current storm.  Notably, given the prior sense among no shortage of Americans that Rome was reluctant to engage a review of its archives in light of the possibility that successive Popes would be implicated in enabling McCarrick’s rise, today’s move represents a head-on tackling of that criticism. . .

by Rocco Palmo,

of Whispers in the Loggia

Card. Ouellet’s Letter to Archbishop Viganò about the Vigano Testimony – Fr. Z’s Blog
Does the New Statement about McCarrick Address the Root Problem? – Fr. Z’s Blog
Ouellet’s Letter Forceful, but Doesn’t Provide Substantial Refutation – Chr. Altieri
Barron Defends U.S. Request for Vatican-backed McCarrick Probe – Ch. White, Crux
Confirmed: Pope to Meet USCCB leaders on Monday – Ch. White & I. San Martín, Crux
Pope’s ‘Thorough Study’ of McCarrick Files Unlikely to Satisfy – Ch. Altieri, The CWR
Three Questions on Pope’s Pledge of ‘Thorough Study’ on McCarrick – John Allen, Crux
Card. Ouellet: Vigano in ‘Open & Scandalous Rebellion’ Against Pope Francis – The CWR
Clericalism, True & False – Peter A. Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement
Church Leaders Must Face the Truth of Abuse, Card. DiNardo Says – Cindy Wooden, CNS
Pope Francis Orders Review of Vatican McCarrick Files – CNA via The CWR
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