I'm making beef and pork stock, collard greens with smoked turkey and freezing chicken stock I made a few days ago, so I'm a bit busy today, too busy for a long post. Instead, I'll just post a thought I've been having about the McCarrick / seminary scandal that was blown wide open by Vigano.
If your company's HR director was found to have been having sex with new employees and even raping some of them, how long would it take for them to be fired and then handed over to the cops? Ten minutes? An hour? Long enough to verify a story or two with a phone call? That's Cardinal McCarrick's situation. He ran one or more seminaries and was having sex with and possibly raping some of the seminarians and it went on for years.
Put yourself in the position of the CEO or one of the VPs of a company where this was happening. That's what the bishops and cardinals were, corporate VPs.
The Lavender Mafia mob didn't act like professionals because they weren't. They were unaccountable to everyone save their superiors and their superiors were even more unaccountable. There was no bottom line by which we could measure their performance until decades had gone by and the population decline became obvious.
Unfortunately for the Church, a decent portion of it needs to be run like a normal business. The crisis isn't just about moral decay and degradation, it's about gross incompetence and mismanagement.
From this article:
ReplyDeletehttps://spectator.org/the-catholic-churchs-sex-scandals-reflect-the-lefts-long-march-through-the-church/
So one has to ask, how in the world did the eternal Catholic Church get to this point? At the risk of sounding like someone with a large wardrobe of tinfoil hats, I believe the answer is a sustained communist attack on the Catholic Church, beginning in the early 20th century.
Bella Dodd, who was a leader of the Communist Party of America during the 1930s and 1940s, eventually left the party and became a strong anti-communist. In her autobiography, she stated that she was under direct orders from the USSR to encourage communists to infiltrate the church: “In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops.” And again, in a different context, “In the late 1920’s and 1930’s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the [Roman] Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations…. I, myself, put some 1,200 men in [Roman] Catholic seminaries”.