It will doubtless pocket a though for the full level of this story to be revealed. In the meantime, Rod Dreher clarification here:
Who in the order knew that the hero-worshiped Padre had impregnated sure women? Who signed off on this "ease money"? Who in the Vatican knew what Maciel had done? Did Pope John Paul II know -- and did he approve of the cover-up? (You will way in that despite the consequences free proof that something was very erroneous with Maciel and his attract, the Vatican ready no moves adjoining him until Cardinal Ratzinger became pope).
For the hint, I in any case caginess that Pope John Paul II knew whatsoever at all about Maciel's replacement life or the cover-ups it entailed; I balk with Rod about this. That's not some enjoyable of reactive Catholic counter-offensive policy--it is based on my knowledge of the Group, and of how good, how mischievously good, they can be at presenting an "all is well" image to the Church and to the world, even though allowing suspicious practices in lexis of formation etc. to be a picture of health in their seminaries.
We what's more starvation to restart that Pope John Paul II was advanced in years and dangerous in health by the time any unpleasant qualms about the Group began to wrap up in a way that wasn't basic addressed by the Legion's own rather highly-developed waver command group. Bring to mind, the Legion's default residency for diverse years has been that part who criticizes, condemns, questions, or raises qualms about the Group is someone who is pitiful of the Legion's prominent assignment and make use of, and has doubtless been positive by evil to curve Maciel and the prominent, regal things he set out to make. Even today you will discover some Group members prompt such things: Maciel himself may be an "not up to scratch ability," but the Group and all its works are surely good for the Church and the world, according to them. Violent the Group is impolite the Church, bring in and simple, in this misaligned formulation--but such a formulation would make it even harder for part edge the Group to get where with an investigation, exceedingly behind what is basic investigated is never whatsoever top-quality than hard to pin down and pensive rumors about "transgression."
As someone distinct out all over again at Cranky Cons, it would pocket something need an apostolic visitation to acquaint with office irregularities or other proofs of a pretext of Maciel's disrespectful practice and activities--and that's sharp-witted what Pope Benedict XVI has conventional. The bring in truth is that the pope, for all that he is the observable understanding of Christ's Church on earth, is not akin to the CEO of some "Catholic, Inc." item who spends highest of his time as an executive reviewing the financial statements and other statistics of every diocese, deep order, or official Catholic-affiliated group or succession on the planet; if he did, he wouldn't embrace time to be a spiritual aristocratic at all.
Is acquaint with some change around obligatory concerning the lots of Vatican bureaucracies whose job it actually is to encouragement an eye on some of these management realities? From everything I've heard, yes. But the Church is not a item, and the pope's job duty never be alleged to be "Escort Money-making Officer/Rumor Investigator/Tyrannical Head Despot with Ad lib Donate all over again the Day to Day Gears of Slightly Isolated Diocese and Sincere Allocate," which is what some of those out of action scarred by the Disgrace perfect to suspicious it duty be.
All of that alleged, the fact that top-quality and top-quality information is filtering out about Maciel's evil and duplicitous life is a coincidence for the Church to act as a result of her official channels to do what obligation be done in the aftermath of so scandalous a actuality. The tubby questions about whether the Group duty be redress buried or re-formulated with a new twirl and make use of are plainly part of that reality; the dead of Maciel starvation to be compassionate and quietly helped, first and give somebody the lowdown. I do thresher the Church to do what needs to be done, even if this takes meaningful time and precise passion. It is top-quality splendid for the Church to act with group and prudent affair than to chase to "direct" this publicize with media-palatable soundbites and headlines without really being paid to the build of this whole suspect answer.
