What will the Pope do to the allegations of abuse in the United States?

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If the charges against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick are confirmed, including the new case reported Friday involving an 11-year-old boy, the pope Will Francisco revoke the title of his cardinal? Is it destined for a life of penance and prayer? Or will he even expel the priesthood, the punishment expected if McCarrick was only a priest?

And Francis, who has already criticized a "culture of camouflage" in the Church, will lead the investigation to the top, where it will inevitably come, given that McCarrick's behavioral problems with adults reportedly reported to the Vatican years ago? .

The question is on the table of the pontiff, who has already spent a good part of the year 2018 on badual abuse of children, homobadual relations between adults and a scandal of concealment at home. Chile was so vast that the entire Episcopal Conference offered his resignation.

And on Friday, Francisco accepted the resignation of the Honduran badistant, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Madariaga, one of Francisco's chief advisers.

Auxiliary Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, 57, was accused of badual abuse of seminarians and excessive expenses for his lovers so obvious to the poor faithful of Honduras that Rodríguez Madariaga is under pressure for reveal what he knew about Pineda's problems and why he tolerated that a badually active homobadual bishop remains in power.

The McCarrick scandal presents the same questions, since, apparently, in some ecclesial circles, it was a secret that "Uncle Ted" invited seminarians to his home on the beach and in his bed.
Although such abuse of power may have been tolerated in silence for decades, it is not possible in the present era, although there has been a silence deafening from other cardinals about what they knew.

There is going to be a huge clamor for the Holy Father to remove his red cap, to officially "degrade" him, said Pastor Thomas Berg, vice-chancellor and admissions director of St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, affiliated with the Archdiocese of New York. Describing how the McCarrick scandal has demoralized seminarians and priests, Berg said the church must ensure that men attracted by the same bad simply do not enter seminars, a position recently reiterated by Francis in his reference. Chilean and Italian churches.

And Berg said that the church must act when the laws of celibacy are violated.
We can not effectively prevent badual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by the clergy if violations of celibacy are tolerated in silence, he said.

McCarrick, 88, a retired bishop of Washington and confidant of three popes, fell out of favor when the US Church announced on June 20 that Pope Francis had ordered his release from the Crown. The penalty was pronounced pending a full investigation into a "credible" allegation that he had tested a teenager in New York more than 40 years ago.

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• Revelations
• Cardinals
• United States
• Children
• Seminarians
• Pope Francis