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).
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Analysis - Public hearings provide a valuable window to see the work of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. But what s happening behind closed doors will almost certainly have the more enduring effect on the ultimate political outcome of the costly exercise.
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This week the commission resumes its historical examination of faith-based institutions managed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and, in particular over the coming few days, the Salvation Army.
William Booth, the Methodist minister who established the Salvation Army in the late 1800s, used to talk about the power of a punchy sermon to dangle listening sinners over the fires of hell. Over the coming days, the boot might be on the other foot.
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