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From Robert Hoaston, Ph.D., and Road to Recovery:
PRESS RELEASE REGARDING THE DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS
It is sad whenever a brother or sister passes away, and the death of Pope Francis is indeed sad after he served twelve years as leader of the Catholic Church. The Pope tried to bring the Church more fully into the 21st Century, but he was met constantly with opposition and criticism. Unfortunately, the deceased Pope’s attempts to resolve the clergy sexual abuse scandal and crisis were largely unsuccessful.
Pope Francis tried to address and resolve the clergy sexual abuse crisis using antiquated traditional methods of establishing “committees.” He appointed lay persons to the “committee” on clergy sexual abuse but they wholly resigned after suffering further abuse when nothing important and demanded were implemented. Pope Francis had the power and authority to effectuate the firing and removal of any bishop or priest who abused or covered up the abuse, but his firings were few and far between.
He did not act effectively, and the scandal and crisis has never abated to this day. No doubt, millions of members of the “flock” continue to be denied justice and healing. The healing of these innocent members deserved and deserve better by the Vatican, and we fear that a retaliatory cabal of Bishops and Cardinals will resume the tactics that placed the crisis under cover for centuries.
Victim/survivors deserve better, and Road to Recovery, Inc., led by a retired priest and a former priest forced to leave the priesthood by at least one corrupt bishop, will continue to assist victims of sexual abuse, especially by clergy and Church personnel.
CARDINAL ROGER MAHONY MAKES A MOCKERY OF PAPAL FUNERAL
Cardinal Roger Mahony, late of Los Angeles and Santa Rosa, has been chosen because of his seniority in the College of Cardinals to participate in the closing of the coffin of Pope Francis. What a mockery! Cardinal Mahoney, who was known for giving the first Chairman of the Bishops' Committee, Governor Frank Keating, not only a hard time for his efforts to expose the truth, but he hastened the resignation of Governor Keating.
After Cardinal Mahony was disgraced publicly for mishandling and covering up clergy sexual abuse in a diocese and archdiocese, the new Archbishop, Gomez, prevented Mahony from serving fully as a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Mahony, 89, should be nowhere near any public events surrouding the Papal funeral. Instead, Francis should have fired him a long time ago. The cover-up continues!
THE GHOST OF THEODORE MCCARRICK
APPEARS AT PAPAL FUNERAL
It is uncanny. The Cardinal in charge of the funeral of Pope Francis, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, was ordained a bishop by McCarrick in Washington, D.C. He was also Mc Carrick's Vicar General (#2 in charge of the Washington DC Archdiocese) for a few years, but he claims not to have known about Mc Carrick's abuse of Newark seminarians and at least one child in NJ. And what about Washington DC seminarians? Wait until that saga is exposed!
Farrell HAD to know about Mc Carrick because everyone between New York and Washington DC, and everywhere in between, discussed Mc Carrick's sexual abuse for decades. Farrell was the Bishop of Dallas before moving to the Vatican, and he wants us to believe he didn't know about McCarrick?
So, the ghost of Mc Carrick will hover over Vatican City as long as there are priests, Bishops, and Cardinals who continue to want Mc Carrick's behavior to simply go away. So much for transparency promised day after day by the cover-uppers!
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