Dispatch from the Dead Letter Office 05/18/2021 at 9:34 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
THE MCCARRICK REPORT HOLDS NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE
By Pieter Vree, New Oxford Review, May 2021
In November 2020 the Vatican released its long-anticipated “Report on the Holy See’s Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick.” It was immediately evident that something screwy was afoot. Consider the timing. Vatican insiders said the report had been completed some six months earlier and was gathering dust on Pope Francis’s desk through the spring, summer, and early fall. That prompted the
Los Angeles Times to ask, “What’s the Pope waiting for?” (July 27, 2020).
On Stateside, host April Baer talks to reporter Kate Wells about this story.
But when Krol’s abuse was repeatedly reported to Orchard Lake’s board of trustees, which includes the Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron, Archbishop of the Detroit Archdiocese, these men say they were either forced to resign or were abruptly fired. Krol is currently on leave, according to a statement from Steve Gross, Chairman of the Board of Regents:
“In our judgment, these former employees of the Orchard Lake Schools who are asserting these claims while simultaneously seeking to remain anonymous have mischaracterized the circumstances surrounding their terminations. It is important to note all individuals named in the lawsuit are adults. These former employees bringing this employment action did not work with any minors, nor did their roles involve the
Pope John Paul II prays during a Mass in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican in 2003. (CNS photo by Alessia Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)
CNA Staff, Dec 12, 2020 / 01:15 am (CNA).- Hundreds of professors have signed an appeal defending St. John Paul II following criticism of the Polish pope in the wake of the McCarrick Report.
The “unprecedented” appeal was signed by 1,700 professors based at Polish universities and research institutes. The signatories include Hanna Suchocka, Poland’s first female prime minister, former foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, physicists Andrzej Staruszkiewicz and Krzysztof Meissner, and film director Krzysztof Zanussi.
“An impressive long list of John Paul II’s merits and accomplishments is being challenged and erased today,” the professors said in the appeal.