UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
(by Jerry Slevin, retired Wall Street lawyer)
As the Vatican’s favored U.S. media types try to spin on behalf of likely “papal preferences” to be next U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, President Obama must remind himself that he just won his recent re-election despite numerous papal agents, especially the U.S. Bishops’, unrelenting efforts to derail Obamacare and defeat him, including by comparing him to Hitler and Stalin. President Obama must show some real spine, like Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny did when PM Kenny closed his Vatican Embassy in evident protest against the Vatican’s alleged cover-up of priest child abuse, as well as to save money.
According to experts at a recent Vatican conference, Catholic priests have so far sexually abused over 100,000 children in the U.S. alone.
If President Obama doesn’t want to save money as well by closing the U.S. Embassy that the U.S. did fine without for over 200 years, then he at least needs to appoint someone as Vatican Ambassador who is both firm and independent and who has not already served on behalf of the U.S. Bishops.
That then excludes Nicholas Cafardi, who apparently has not yet explained adequately his actions in his role as Anthony Bevilacqua’s diocesean lawyer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cardinal Bevilacqua’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania diocesean subordinate, Monsignor Lynn, now sits in a Pennsylvania prison cell convicted of child endangerment. Monsignor Lynn’s main defense was that he was just following Cardinal Bevilacqua’s criminal orders.
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