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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 6, 2019
Former secretary says officials knew McCarrick’s ministry was restricted CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they were not formal sanctions and were not followed strictly, Msgr. Anthony J. even during the paFigueiredo pacy of Pope Benedict himself, McCarrick’s former secretary said. Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, who was the former cardinal’s secretary for nine months in 1994-1995, but continued to assist him from Rome, released extracts from correspondence May 28, saying he wanted the truth out about what was known about McCarrick, when and by whom.
Besides knowing about the restrictions himself, the monsignor also said he had evidence that recently retired Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington knew about them, as did Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, then-prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then-Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who was nuncio to the United States at the time. Msgr. Figueiredo said he decided to publish online excerpts of correspondence in his possession – available at http://thefigueiredoreport.com/ – after attempting “since September 2018 to share and discuss these with the Holy See and other church leaders.” He did not publish the full texts of any of the correspondence or emails he quoted online. The monsignor, who in October was suspended from driving in England for 18 months after pleading guilty for drunk driving and hitting a car
driven by a pregnant woman, said in his online report that “the hierarchy’s abuse of authority and cover-up, in their various and serious manifestations, have inflicted consequences upon me,” including by “seeking consolation in alcohol.” Pope Francis removed McCarrick from the priesthood in February after he was found 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.” After an initial investigation in the Archdiocese of New York, the Vatican ordered McCarrick’s removal from ministry last June. A month later, Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals. In August, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former nuncio to the United States, published a document calling on Pope Francis to resign because, he claimed, Pope Francis had known there
were sanctions on McCarrick and not only did he lift them, he allegedly made McCarrick a trusted confidante and adviser on bishops’ appointments in the United States. Archbishop Vigano later clarified that Pope Benedict issued the sanctions “privately” either because McCarrick was already retired or because the pope thought “he was ready to obey.” Cardinal Marc Ouellet, current prefect of the congregation, in a response to Archbishop Vigano’s allegations, said in October that McCarrick “was strongly exhorted not to travel and not to appear in public so as not to provoke further rumors” about his sexual misconduct. However, Cardinal Ouellet said, “it is false to present these measures taken in his regard as ‘sanctions’ decreed by Pope Benedict XVI and annulled by Pope Francis. After re-examining the archives, I certify that there are no such documents signed by either pope.”
SUPREME COURT: Allows fetal burials, rejects Indiana abortion limits FROM PAGE 12
the law concerning the disposal of fetal remains “does not implicate our cases applying the undue burden test to abortion regulations” nor does it involve a challenge that the law “imposes an undue burden on a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.” The court said the state has “a legitimate interest in proper disposal of fetal remains,” referring to a 1983 court decision, Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. The justices voted 7-2 to uphold the fetal remains aspect of the state’s law, with
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting. The court also examined the appellate court’s ruling which struck down a provision in the state law that prevented women from obtaining abortions because of fetal characteristics. Both laws were signed in 2016 by Vice President Mike Pence when he was Indiana’s governor and were blocked by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year. Ginsburg and Sotomayor said they would have denied review of both issues in the case. Justice Clarence Thomas in a
20-page opinion, not joined by other justices, said he agreed with the court for not taking up the issue of abortion limits at this time but said it would have to do so in the future, warning that the provision promotes a “compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” “Given the potential for abortion to Tour 91009 become a tool of eugenic manipulation,” he added, “the court will soon
need to confront the constitutionality of laws like Indiana’s.” The court’s decision will keep the appeals court ruling in place on abortion limits and uphold the law requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains. All eyes have been on the court taking up an abortion case to potentially Pentec challenge itsTERMS 1973 decision in Roe v. CONTRACT titution AND CONDITIONS / TOUR Pentecost Tours, Inc. is not a participantTour in the 90917 California Travel Consumer Re Restitu titution Fund. This transaction is not coverednationby the California Travel Consum Wade, which legalized abortion of Restitution Fund. You are not eligible to file a claim against that Fund Pent in t ac event of Pentecost Tours, Inc.’s default. However, Pentecost Tours, Trust Inc. do wide. maintain a Trust account for tour deposits at MainSource Bank in Batesville,
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