DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Irish Mirror
February 18, 2019
By Paddy Clancy
After the way the Catholic Church handled scandals and cover-ups of them, I should be beyond bewilderment by any of its plans.
But one of the latest developments has me totally gobsmacked.
At a time when the Church is supposedly attempting to improve its image it’s still capable of inflicting enormous harm on itself by some decisions.
I am not referring to Pope Francis’s defrocking last week of US former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sex abuse and soliciting sex in the confessional.
That’s one of the Vatican’s best decisions although, as usual with the Catholic Church, it followed a long period of cover-ups.
A different matter was the Pope’s announcement that Dublin-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell will be the new camerlengo, the prelate who runs the Vatican between the death or resignation of a pontiff and the election of a new one!
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