In the Vineyard: November 23, 2020
In the Vineyard :: November 23, 2020 :: Volume 20, Issue 22
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Who’s at fault? New reports on clergy sex abuse offer different views. / Sojourners Magazine
“On the same day last week (Nov. 10), two reports on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church made headlines. The first report, released by the Vatican, is the so-called ‘McCarrick report’ … The second report was released by an independent commission in the U.K … What the reports have in common is long lists of sexual abuse victims and their broken families.
The McCarrick Report confirms it: clericalism powered the sex abuse crisis / America; The Jesuit Review
“Even more, it (McCarrick Report) gives us a close-up view of concentric layers of plausible deniability and culpable ignorance, powered by clericalism, that allowed McCarrick to evade discovery or accountability.” (America: The Jesuit Review.)
Voice of the Faithful Statement on Release of Vatican's McCarrick Report, Nov. 10, 2020
Voice of the Faithful has long called for holding bishops accountable when they have covered up clergy sexual abuse or, as in the case of disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, were themselves guilty of using their positions of power to abuse minors and vulnerable adults. The Vatican today released its long-awaited report into McCarrick's case.
As the summary of the Vatican's report shows, the line of bishops complicit in covering up, and at least implicitly condoning, his behavior stretches from his peers in the USCCB all the way to the Vatican.
Vatican's explosive McCarrick report largely places blame on John Paul II / National Catholic Reporter
“In an explosive report that calls into question the decision-making of three Catholic popes, the Vatican has revealed a series of institutional failures that led to the repeated promotion of now disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick despite rumors of his alleged sexual misconduct with young men as early as the 1990s.
“The Vatican places an abundance of responsibility on Pope John Paul II, who appointed McCarrick as archbishop of Washington in 2000 and made him a cardinal in 2001.