By Tim Rohr
The first RMS (in the U.S.) was established under McCarrick. It's also where he ran to once his filthy life was outed.
December 2007: Sambi meets with McCarrick to discuss his move out of the Redemptoris Mater seminary and the request that he live a quiet life of prayer. An emotional McCarrick tells Sambi that because Priest 1 was 25 at the time of the allegations, what had happened was not a crime, and that his continued pursuit of the allegations seemed to be a grab for money.
January 2007: Sambi reports his meeting with McCarrick to Re and adds that he looked into whether the leaders of Redemptoris Mater seminary considered McCarrick an active threat. Seminary leaders say McCarrick was “touchy” but they did not consider him to be a threat.
2007-2008: McCarrick maintains residence at Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Hyattsville, Maryland, during this time, where he lives in his own wing.
Early 2009: McCarrick moves to St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Washington, D.C., as arranged by Wuerl. According to the report, McCarrick still maintains an office at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary “and travels there frequently for work.”
July 14, 2014: After a brief conversation with Parolin, Ouellet writes a letter to the Secretary of State about the restrictions given against McCarrick, including that he move out of Redemptoris Mater seminary and that he live a private life of prayer and not accept invitations in the U.S. or abroad.
Typical neocat. Neo does what Neo wants…rules be damned!
ReplyDeleteObviously, these are despicable allusions that contain no "guilt" on the part of the Neocatechumenal Way, especially since McCarrick's vices were not public knowledge. But now that I think about it, there are 134 or 135 Redemptoris Mater seminaries in the world. The first was opened by Saint John Paul II in his diocese (Rome), and today a third of all the virtues of Rome come from Redemptoris Mater. Are you saying that even Karol Wojtyla had problems? Do you or Deacon Martinez know more than him or Pope Francis, who helped and DEFENDED the Neocatechumenal Way?
ReplyDeleteThe record shows that Kiko took care of McCarrick AFTER he was outed. That's why McCarrick ran to the RMS. He was safe there.
DeleteYes, JP2 had problems, big ones. He protected and promoted a many even worse that McCarrick, Maciel and his Legionnaires. He did it unknowingly, but he still did it.
Dear Lucio,
DeleteBelow are two excerpts from the McCarrick Report. While they do not explicitly establish legal "guilt," they provide significant insight into a specific mentality within the Way. As a former member, I know this environment well. So, instead of reflexively defending the institution, it might be time to reflect on the movement's attitudes.
Mr. [Layman] is responsible for the Neocatechumenals in
the United States; he defines the Cardinal as “touchy-feely” and
acknowledges that his behaviors can be misinterpreted in the
current suspicious climate prevailing in the United States. (page 290)
Both the Rector as well as the family responsible for the neo
catechumenals in the United States, who presume to have
access to the conscience of the members of the
[Neocatechumenal] Way, have assured me that the Cardinal is
a little “touchy”, in the sense that he might run his hand along
someone’s back or along the leg, especially young people, but
that he has never done anything indecent with the youths
[seminarians]. They attribute this way of being (wishing not to
be alone), and of acting (touchy) to the fact that he was
orphaned as a child, and that he did not have the warmth of
family in his infancy. They are also convinced that the
Cardinal’s pious sincerity, his sensitive conscience and his
moral rigor make the possibility of immoral behavior
Unthinkable. (page 267)
The report shows how your leadership dismissed and deflected concerns by blaming them on a "suspicious climate" rather than addressing the actual behavior.
Inappropriate physical boundaries are excused using pseudo-psychoanalytic reasoning (e.g., attributing "touchy" behavior to being an orphan). To any standard moral compass, a Cardinal running his hand down a leg is highly inappropriate. Not just "complex," it is wrong!
I suspect you might view these critiques as “persecution”. However, there is a difference between being persecuted for the Gospel and being held accountable. To label every correction as "persecution" is a dangerous way to avoid the humility that the Way itself claims to preach.
The Neo also shielded Apuron, another infamous abuser like McCarrick.
ReplyDelete"Forget the sanitized history of St. John Paul II and Kiko. The real muscle behind the first RMC in Rome was Cardinal Ugo Poletti, the man who buried a mob boss in a sacred crypt. Between Poletti’s Mafia connections and the predator-heavy patronage of bishops like McCarrick and Apuron, the foundation of the Way’s seminaries looks less like a miracle and more like a syndicate. Birds of a feather don't just flock together—they build together."
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