Who let Teddy run down the clock?
- Theodore McCarrick successfully ran down the clock. He’s either faking dementia, or he and his protectors kept him going until he genuinely slid into the terrible mental fog of senility. We do not put people on trial who are too feeble minded to understand what is going on and speak for themselves so the charge of molesting a 16 year old at a wedding reception in 1974 ,was dismissed. This may make some readers angry but I don’t think that if the case was tried fairly, there was much chance of conviction. Was there any forensic evidence? Were there any living witnesses to back up the victim’s story? But this is besides the point. McCarrick should have been laicized, excommunicated, and tried in civil court DECADES ago. The festering sore of a scandal remains. Bishops and Cardinals knew what Uncle Ted was doing. Seminarians knew what he was doing and whispered about the New Jersey beach house.
Father Issac Relyea is, to my knowledge the only person who has said with his characteristic bluntness what he thinks about the seminarians who complied with McCarrick’s sexual demands. McCarrick’s “nephews” are in high places today. For a long time nobody was appointed to a bishopric in the United States unless McCarrick vouched for them. Watching Cardinal Kevin Farrell telling an interviewer that he had no idea– never saw or heard anything that made him raise an eyebrow about what McCarrick was doing in the whole five years he was a DC diocese bishop and living in the same four bedroom apartment as the cardinal was the icing on a stomach twisting cake for many people. St. Peter Damian, pray for us!
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