So the Pope *did* know?
It seems that the allegations made against Pope Francis that he knew of abuse and covered it up may well be true ...
Here's more from The LA Times ...
Letter confirms Vatican had received misconduct complaint about then-Cardinal McCarrick in 2000
A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. cardinal, lending credibility to bombshell accusations of a cover-up at the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church ....
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, at the center of a storm rocking Pope Francis' papacy, cited Ramsey's 2000 letter in his own expose of a cover-up about the McCarrick affair.
He named Sandri among a long list of Vatican officials who knew about McCarrick's penchant for seminarians. Vigano also accused Francis of knowing in 2013 of McCarrick's misconduct but of rehabilitating him from sanctions purportedly imposed by Pope Benedict XVI.
Sandri's letter is significant because it corroborates Ramsey's story as well as Vigano's claims ....
The excuse now is that even though the two previous popes knew about NcCarrick, and even though the "highest echelons" of the Vatican knew about NcCarrick, and even though the big wigs in the US church knew about McCarrick, and even though Francis has been pope for years and supposedly working to end clergy sex abuse, he was totally oblivious to NcCarrick's history of abuse. I don't think that's plausible.
More: Can the Pope Go to Jail?
[...] "It's just kind of a fantastic scenario," Gladden Pappin, an assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas and senior adviser of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, told me over the phone when I asked him if he could imagine any situation in which a pontiff might actually be prosecuted. "The pope is the supreme legislator, the supreme judge, the supreme governor of the Church. It's a monarchy. So he cannot be arrested. The ecclesiastical power is his to wield. Even from a secular standpoint, but arguably even in the international sphere, except under very limited conditions, he enjoys sovereign immunity, being the head of the state."
"No one can hold him accountable," agreed Kurt Martens, the ordinary professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, when I presented him with the same hypothetical. "Because of the system that's in place, the pope, once elected, has supreme power in the Church and over the Church. And people may call for his resignation, but the only one who can make the decision about his resignation is the pope himself." ....
This is why B16 retired to Vatican City instead of Germany, and why Pope Francis seems so serene about the allegations made against him - a pope in his own country is unaccountable to the law.
Here's more from The LA Times ...
Letter confirms Vatican had received misconduct complaint about then-Cardinal McCarrick in 2000
A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. cardinal, lending credibility to bombshell accusations of a cover-up at the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church ....
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, at the center of a storm rocking Pope Francis' papacy, cited Ramsey's 2000 letter in his own expose of a cover-up about the McCarrick affair.
He named Sandri among a long list of Vatican officials who knew about McCarrick's penchant for seminarians. Vigano also accused Francis of knowing in 2013 of McCarrick's misconduct but of rehabilitating him from sanctions purportedly imposed by Pope Benedict XVI.
Sandri's letter is significant because it corroborates Ramsey's story as well as Vigano's claims ....
The excuse now is that even though the two previous popes knew about NcCarrick, and even though the "highest echelons" of the Vatican knew about NcCarrick, and even though the big wigs in the US church knew about McCarrick, and even though Francis has been pope for years and supposedly working to end clergy sex abuse, he was totally oblivious to NcCarrick's history of abuse. I don't think that's plausible.
More: Can the Pope Go to Jail?
[...] "It's just kind of a fantastic scenario," Gladden Pappin, an assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas and senior adviser of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, told me over the phone when I asked him if he could imagine any situation in which a pontiff might actually be prosecuted. "The pope is the supreme legislator, the supreme judge, the supreme governor of the Church. It's a monarchy. So he cannot be arrested. The ecclesiastical power is his to wield. Even from a secular standpoint, but arguably even in the international sphere, except under very limited conditions, he enjoys sovereign immunity, being the head of the state."
"No one can hold him accountable," agreed Kurt Martens, the ordinary professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, when I presented him with the same hypothetical. "Because of the system that's in place, the pope, once elected, has supreme power in the Church and over the Church. And people may call for his resignation, but the only one who can make the decision about his resignation is the pope himself." ....
This is why B16 retired to Vatican City instead of Germany, and why Pope Francis seems so serene about the allegations made against him - a pope in his own country is unaccountable to the law.
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