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Sexual abuse: Pope Francis holds meeting with key bishops

by Olalere Abolore
September 13, 2018
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Pope Francis worried by recent development in Catholic Church

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In a bid to calm frayed nerves and move forward following the sex scandal involving senior Catholic officials, a delegation of U.S. cardinals and bishops is to meet Thursday with Pope Francis.

The meeting is also coming amid a crisis of confidence in church leadership following revelations of new sex abuse and cover-up that have also implicated Pope Francis himself.

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Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, requested the audience last month following revelations that a now-disgraced ex-cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, had risen through church ranks despite allegations of sexual misconduct that were known in U.S. and Vatican circles.

As well as requesting a full-fledged Vatican investigation into the McCarrick affair, DiNardo wants solutions to allegations that a string of Vatican officers — including Francis — have known of McCarrick’s misdeeds since 2000, but turned a blind eye.

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DiNardo is heading the U.S. delegation and is accompanied by Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Francis’ top sex abuse adviser, and other officers from the U.S. conference.

The Vatican hasn’t responded to allegations by its former ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, that Francis rehabilitated McCarrick from sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict XVI over allegations McCarrick would routinely invite seminarians to his beach house and into his bed.

Francis removed McCarrick as a cardinal in July after a U.S. church investigation mentioned an allegation that he groped a teenage altar boy in the 1970s was credible.

After news broke of the sanction, several former seminarians and priests came forward to report that they too had been abused or harassed by McCarrick as adults.

The McCarrick affair coupled with revelations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing many years of abuse and cover-up in six dioceses has fueled outrage among the many rank-and-file devoted who had trusted church leaders to reform themselves after the abuse scandal first erupted in Boston in 2002.

The outrage has also been directed at Francis and the Vatican and has fueled conservative criticism of Francis’ mercy-over-morals priorities.

Francis has responded with a series of initiatives aimed at trying to persuade the faithful that he “gets it” and is prepared to take measures to put an end to what he has called the “culture of cover-up” in the church.

On the eve of the U.S. audience, Francis announced he was summoning the presidents of bishops conferences all over the world to a February summit to discuss prevention measures and protection of minors and vulnerable adults.

However, Francis is still dealing with the fallout from his botched response to the abuse scandal in Chile.

Francis had repeatedly discredited victims of the nation’s most notorious predator, the Rev. Fernando Karadima, and defended a bishop accused of covering for his crimes.

Francis eventually admitted to “grave errors in judgment” and took steps to make amends, including securing offers of resignation from every active member of Chile’s bishops’ conference.

Even DiNardo’s own record on protecting kids has now come into question. On the eve of his audience with Francis, The Associated Press reported that two victims in Houston had accused him of not doing enough to cease a priest who was arrested this week on sexual abuse charges.

The archdiocese issued a press release Wednesday confirming that both people had come ahead to report abuse by the priest, the Rev. Manuel LaRosa-Lopez, one of them in 2001. The priest is now the pastor at St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Richmond while also serving as the archdiocese’s episcopal vicar for Hispanics.

In his capacity as president of the U.S. convention, DiNardo has been outspoken in calling for greater protections for youngsters and accountability.

He announced in August that he wanted a Vatican investigation known as an apostolic visitation into the McCarrick affair, working in concert with a group of predominantly lay experts.

“We are faced with a spiritual crisis that requires not only spiritual conversion, but practical changes to avoid repeating the sins and failures of the past,” DiNardo stated in an Aug. 16 statement.

“I have no illusions about the degree to which trust in the bishops has been damaged by these past sins and failures.”

Any in-depth investigation of the McCarrick case is more likely to shed light on the timetable for when senior Catholic officers in the U.S. and the Vatican know about the multiple allegations against McCarrick.

A priest, the Rev. Boniface Ramsay and a group of concerned Catholics sought to warn Vatican officers about McCarrick in 2000, but he was still appointed Washington archbishop and made a cardinal in 2001.

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