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After Cardinal McCarrick retired, we
had hoped that he would have quietly enjoyed his retirement. However, the number of questionable
statements and incidents of outright dissent have actually increased. Thus we must continue to bring these matters
to light.
LEST
WE FORGET The good Cardinal himself motivated the creation of
this website by his inaction and studied ignorance of our concerns. Such is exemplified by the letter we
sent to him and the lack of
response demonstrated by the Archdiocese of Washington.
CARDINAL
MCCARRICK GOES GREEN – OR “SOUL ON ICE” In the Nov 28th edition of the Catholic
Standard, it was revealed that Cardinal McCarrick visited Greenland at the
behest of the Pope.to attend a conference on “global warming.” See the complete article here. Now we’ve
read what the Pope has to say about the matter.
While he does mention the environment as an area of concern, he does not
place it before other matters such as the weakening of Christianity vis-à-vis
dissident priests/theologians, moral breakdown, growing hostility towards
Christians in once-Christian countries, etc.
Unfortunately, it seems that
the cardinal has bought into some real junk
science. While the liberal mass
media has glommed onto this concept, reputable scientists dispute the bases of the theories behind “global
warming”. Whatever one’s position on the
matter, we can see that such is a distraction from more serious matters. It is one thing to talk about the “meltdown
of glaciers”. However, are there not
other “meltdowns” that are of more pressing urgency? What about the “meltdown” resulting from the
gays infesting the priesthood? What
about the “meltdown” resulting from rank disobedience to Canon 915 (much of
this fomented by the Cardinal himself)?
What about the “meltdown” caused by millions of abortions, about which
many of the clergy have been woefully silent?
These will cause, and are causing, calamities far worse than flooding,
etc, yet the Cardinal is diverting attention and energy towards matters that
are, in comparison, trivial.
Another thing that bemuses
us is his choice of pilgrimage. Praying
before an iceberg?? Might we suggest
that it would have been more beneficial if he had preached the truth to the
leaders of other religions that were with him, to encourage them to embrace
Jesus and His Catholic Church.
However, if you scroll down to the last item in this page, you’ll see
that he has quite a problem doing that.
Make no mistake about this, though – he’s not the only bishop so
encumbered! Until there’s some infusion
of steel into their spinal columns and fidelity into their bellies, this world
will careen towards disasters that will make “global warming” seem like a
spring afternoon and “floodings” seem like a bubble bath.
By the way – read this and see how divorce is bad not only for families, not
only for children but (gasp!) bad for “Mother Earth”! Perhaps our shepherds might take heed and
return to a proper emphasis on spiritual and moral matters. Also, Pope Benedict XVI has weighed in on the environmental hysteria.
CARDINAL
MCCARRICK ADMITS THE MOTIVES FOR HIS PANDERINGS….. At
least he’s being honest – or is it just shamelessness? In either event, we have heard what we have
long suspected. For an excellent analysis
on the havoc wrecked by the spinelessness of our bishops in general, we
recommend this article by the St. Joseph Foundation. It’s rather lengthy, but worth the time to
read it.
We do wish to highlight why
he and others are reluctant to rebuke, much less discipline, prominent
Catholics who disobey their Church and God.
We read in the St Joseph Foundation article that he quoted Cardinal
Avery Dulles, who said, ” In the first place, the Bishop may be accused,
however unfairly, of trying to coerce the politician’s conscience.
Secondly, people can easily accuse the Church of trying to meddle in the
political process, which in this country depends on the free consent of the
governed. And finally, the Church
incurs a danger of alienating judges, legislators and public administrators
whose good will is needed for other good programs, such as the support of
Catholic education and the care of the poor. For all these reasons,
the Church is reluctant to discipline politicians in a public way, even when it
is clear that their positions are morally indefensible.” (Note: in a previous version of this page, we
erroneously ascribed those words to Cardinal McCarrick himself. However, while Cardinal McCarrick did not
originate those statements, it is clear from the rest of his talk that he
embraced them.)
In that final reason,
Cardinal McCarrick admits that he and others are in the back pockets of
pro-abortion politicians. His silence
has been bought – with 30 pieces of silver?
Babies are dead who could have been alive, had McCarrick (and many other
bishops) rebuked pro-death officials and reminded his flock of their duty to
vote according to Catholic principles.
Along with the dead babies, we have shattered women, broken families and
a blood-stained national conscience.
Let’s not stop there. How many of
these politicians risk losing their salvation because our prelates didn’t
preach the word of God to them and didn’t urge them to go to Confession?
CARDINAL
MCCARRICK SUPPORTS GAY SHACK-UPS….. On the CNN program “Situation Room”, hosted by Wolf
Blitzer, Cardinal McCarrick granted an interview in the wake of the defeat of
the Marriage Amendment effort in the US Senate.
In that interview, His Eminence said that while he supports marriage as
being between one man and one woman, “if there are people who for one reason or
another just cannot do that or feel they cannot do that, then in order to
protect their right to take care of each other, in order to take care of their
right to have visitation in a hospital or something like that, I think that you
could allow, not the ideal, but you could allow for that for a civil union.”
Obviously His Eminence
forgets that the deliberate facilitation of sin is itself a sin. The entire transcript of this scandalous
interview can be found here. He is not
leaving his post soon enough. At the time, we dared to hope that this would be
his last pot-shot at the Magisterium and traditional morality. How silly we were!
By the way – if you want to
hear how he values being a “moderate” (How does one “moderate” between good and
evil, God and Satan?), click here (you’ll need either Real Audio or Windows Media Player
to listen). At best, this is pathetic.
…AND
CONDOMS!!!!! He made that incredible pronouncement at a “Theology
on Tap” session on May 9th 2007.
Click here to read a
first-hand account of that scandal! We
can only pray that this man either 1) converts to the authentic Roman Catholic
faith or 2) just fades into the woodwork and not offer more scandal in his
retirement
burke
and benedict versus mccarrick In October of 2007, Archbishop Raymond Burke of
Recently Cardinal McCarrick
took strong umbrage at Archbishop Burke’s treatise. Read about that here and here. Do you notice
how McCarrick regurgitates the “seamless garment” canards as he tries to
justify his dissent? Also, please take
note of Ms. Brown’s observation, that the Cardinal’s remarks take dissent from
the Magisterium to a new low. Do we have
here degradation to heresy and outright schism?
CARDINAL MCCARRICK PRAYS TO ALLAH!!! On September 13, 2005, at the Catholic University
of America, Cardinal McCarrick addressed some dignitaries from