It's very dasting that yesterday's JFK archive drop is getting little attention in normieville
It's very dasting that yesterday's JFK archive drop is getting little attention in normieville
It's very dasting that yesterday's JFK archive drop is getting little attention in normieville
https://nitter.poast.org/EricLDaugh/status/1908117371505516994#m
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
7h
Mike Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the President JFK Library Foundation.
“For putting his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Apr 4, 2025 · 11:20 AM UTC
Now, where are those pearls?
https://religionnews.com/2025/04/04/cardinal-mccarrick-defrocked-for-sexual-abuse-has-died/
Theodore McCarrick, cardinal defrocked for sexual abuse, has died
(RNS) — McCarrick was the first cardinal to be stripped of his cardinal rights and resign from the College of Cardinals, making him ineligible to elect the next pope.
April 4, 2025
(RNS) — Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic prelate to face criminal charges for the sexual abuse of a minor, died Thursday (April 3), according to Vatican media.
In a statement, the current Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy, told RNS, “At this moment I am especially mindful of those who he harmed during the course of his priestly ministry. Through their enduring pain, may we remain steadfast in our prayers for them and for all victims of sexual abuse.”
McCarrick, a greatly influential figure in the U.S. Catholic Church with a reputation as a fundraiser, also led the Diocese of Metuchen and the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey before becoming Archbishop of Washington in 2001, later being named cardinal by Pope John Paul II.
He was the first cardinal to be stripped of his cardinal rights and resign from the College of Cardinals, making him ineligible to elect the next pope.
He spent his last years in the Vianney Renewal Center in Missouri.
In 2002, McCarrick was among the U.S. prelates who drafted the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” He continued to hold an influential role in the church until 2016.
Reports of McCarrick sharing his bed with seminarians and other inappropriate behavior first emerged in 1994, but in 2018, reports from former seminarians and at least two minors in New Jersey detailed accusations that he had engaged in sexual misconduct. The New York Times reported that McCarrick had sexually abused an 11-year-old boy whom he had baptized, James Grein, in 1969. The abuse continued for 20 years.
__The criminal case against McCarrick had been suspended since January 2024, after he was found incompetent to stand trial because of his dementia, __but he was laicized in 2019 after a canonical trial found him guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.”