Edward Pentin collects all the critical write-ups about the McCarrick report into one place, and in it, one Italian editor says what must be on everyone's mind who has read the report:
Riccardo Cascioli, editor of the Italian Catholic daily newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, noted that, in practice, what the findings of the McCarrick Report show is that “immoral behavior with adults, while certainly not a good thing, is however in the end something that is tolerated.” He added that the “real alarm” that carries penalties is “only if the one abused is a minor.”
“As if the dozens and dozens of future priests who shared a bed with McCarrick, and who were thus for the most part condemned to an unbalanced priestly life, didn’t really count for much,” Cascioli continued. “As if the moral devastation and the destruction of faith caused by a bishop-predator — lost vocations, priests who in turn repeated the abuse, episcopal appointments distorted by pathological ties — were all only a minor problem.”
Cascioli added that “deliberately ignored” in the McCarrick affair was that what permitted his “irresistible rise is a system of power also known as the gay lobby, which favors the appointment and career of bishops with certain characteristics.”
I want to know-- what about abuse of young adults who are not minors? What about abuse of adults? What about non-consensual sex of priests with other men? What about consensual sex? What about celibates not living their vow? Are not ALL of those sins needing to be addressed as much as protection of minors??
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