Time for Resignation: Cardinal O’Malley’s Double Standard

Boston Cardinal O’Malley who presents himself as the big abuse inquisitor, admitted on Monday that he ignored a letter detailing abuses committed by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

This came more than a month after it became known that in 2015, New York Father Boniface Ramsey had written a letter to him about Cardinal McCarrick’s homosexual abuses.

The Boston Cardinal denied having known anything about these abuses or about the Ramsey letter which was "handled by a staff member". At the time, McCarrick was an influential liberal who had the support of Pope Francis and the anti-Church media.

Now O’Malley apologised to Ramsey “for not having responded to him in an appropriate way”.

But O'Malley's apology is senseless because Francis claimed on August 20 that “no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient”.

For similar failures, O’Malley has been a vocal supporter for the resignation of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Niensted or for Kansas-Saint Joseph Bishop Robert Finn.

Now, it is time for him to follow his own principles and to resign.

Picture: Sean O'Malley, © Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, CC BY-ND, #newsXpxwnyeacn

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Feb 18, 2019

alex j

Aug 23, 2018

Totally agree.

San Atanasio ora pro nobis

Aug 23, 2018

O’Malley Welcomed McCarrick to Boston Fundraiser After Letter Detailing Sex Abuse

As bishop of Fall River MA, O’Malley was accused by the local prosecutor of concealing offenders’ names until the statute of limitations had expired.

As Bishop O’Malley was leaving the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, in 2002, the local prosecutor, Bristol County District Attorney Paul Walsh, took the extraordinary step of publicly rebuking the bishop for a decade-long delay in submitting to him the names of 21 accused priests. “Why didn’t he release these names to us 10 years ago?” the DA said. By the time O’Malley gave DA Walsh the priests’ names in 2002, the time window for prosecuting had closed for all but one of the cases.

HerzMariae

Aug 22, 2018

Who sets the criteria for passing on the mail to the superior? The superior. He tells his staff, I need to see such and such, I don't need to see such & such. Somewhere along the line Card. O'Malley told his staff "I don't need to see letters making allegations of sexual abuse"

Gesù è con noi

Aug 22, 2018

Apostate Pro Gay Sean O’Malley is part of the Gay Network infiltrated inside the Church.

HerzMariae

Aug 21, 2018

McCarrick: “The Bishops Conference is anxious to understand how Theodore McCarrick could have been named Bishop, Archbishop and Cardinal.”

HerzMariae

Aug 21, 2018

Here is the CNS story on the 2015 letter. cnstopstories.com/…/abuse-letter-to…

De Profundis

Aug 21, 2018

"Allegations regarding Archbishop McCarrick’s sexual crimes were unknown to me until the recent media reports. I understand not everyone will accept this answer given the way the Church has eroded the trust of our people."

Sólo Díos basta

Aug 21, 2018

This guy really wants to keep his red hat and position, doesn't he. Not a careerist. Oh no, not he.
He claims that his office received a letter from Father Boniface Ramsey about McCarrick in 2015, but his priest secretary did not show it to him because it fell outside the purview of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.More

This guy really wants to keep his red hat and position, doesn't he. Not a careerist. Oh no, not he.

He claims that his office received a letter from Father Boniface Ramsey about McCarrick in 2015, but his priest secretary did not show it to him because it fell outside the purview of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Sólo Díos basta

Aug 21, 2018

Cardinal O’Malley says “allegations regarding Archbishop McCarrick’s sexual crimes were unknown to me until the recent media reports.” Mention of “crimes” leaves open the possibility that he had heard of McCarrick’s non-criminal predatory behavior.