Scandal we haz that

don't complain: You'll be told this is an "attack on a papacy" so shut up (and continue to send money).

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First Things summary here.

I hear Wuerl is finally getting the can (I despise him because he ruled in Pittsburgh when the Altonna scandal was going on. Don't tell me he didn't know about all the priests cruising the gay bars in Pittsburgh back then).

His resignation is being accepted while the news quotes lots of folks saying how wonderful he is.


Apparently Thou shalt not criticize your fellow clerics is the rule in the Vatican.

Oxford University’s Dr. Joseph Shaw told LifeSiteNews that Pope Francis’s Oct. 12 letter accepting Cardinal Wuerl’s resignation “makes it very clear” that he doesn’t want to punish his subordinate. “In the Roman Curia and in many Bishops’ Conferences there is a widespread attitude that bishops and senior officials should never be publicly disgraced: there should be no ‘brutta figura‘ [loss of face],” Shaw explained. “Even when sacked for bad behaviour, they should be allowed to depart in a dignified manner.” “One would expect, then, a carefully-worded and diplomatic send-off from the Pope on such an occasion, but Pope Francis’ letter goes far beyond this. It sounds like a letter written by a political leader forced to sack an underling very much against his will,” he continued.

however the DA in Pennsylvania is less approving of his conduct.

"It is unacceptable that then-Bishop Wuerl ... oversaw and participated in the systematic cover-up that he did when leading the Pittsburgh Diocese and that he is now able to retire seemingly with no consequences for his actions," Shapiro said. "We can't rely on the church to fix itself."

But the Jeramiah of the Catholic blogosphere (NSFW) says no: she compares his resignation to the coverup in the Goldman Sach scandal. He is just being kicked upstairs with the Vatican version of a golden parachute. And she points out the back story of Dolan trying to get rid of Wuerl, and who alas has lost.

added comment; Yes, she is vulgar and over the top. But someone needs to show righteous anger over the lives destroyed by these sociopaths.

EcclesIsSaved (a satire site) version here.

and the meeting on yutes sounds like business as usual.

Sigh.

St Peter Damian call your office.

so why do I stay a Catholic? Because most priests remain faithful, and although the church scandal is severe, but ignores the majority of good priests.

And because the infiltration of the church by the immoral is nothing new: What really upsets me is that this Pope is sowing confusion about Jesus: mixing good and bad ideas and ridiculing those of us who say WTF?