Received
from Robert Hoatson
“Cardinal Dolan: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black”
As
I sat and watched the interviews of Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday regarding the
Vatican’s report on former Cardinal Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, I couldn’t
help but notice Dolan’s abject hypocrisy. The report is replete with
episodes of incompetent, negligent, and deceptive behavior on the part of
members of the Church hierarchy, mainly Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, and
Bishops.
Did
Cardinal Dolan forget that when he referred to Theodore McCarrick as charming,
talented, charismatic, friendly, deceptive, and a liar, he was referring to
himself and most, if not all, members of the Church hierarchy?
Cardinal
Dolan, you have never revealed how much money the New York Catholic Conference
spent for at least a decade attempting to defeat the Child Victims’ Act, giving
childhood victims of sexual abuse their day in court. All those years, you
told the faithful of the Archdiocese of New York that the legislation would
seriously hamper the charitable efforts of the Archdiocese. That hasn’t
happened and you knew it then. Don’t tell us how much money McCarrick
misspent unless, Cardinal Dolan, you give us the facts surrounding your efforts
to defeat that legislation and apologize to all victim/survivors.
Cardinal
Dolan, please tell us why you never removed Msgr. John Paddack for years after
reports of sexual abuse of children reached your desk. Paddack remained
Pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Manhattan for years after you knew. Don’t
criticize Theodore McCarrick without looking in your own mirror.
And,
Cardinal Dolan, Fr. Dennis Timone was removed only recently despite an
allegation being reported in 2002. You allowed him to go from coast to
coast (New York to San Diego) every year where children and young people were
at risk of being abused. Don’t criticize Theodore McCarrick unless you are
willing to admit your negligence.
Finally,
and most dramatically, Cardinal Dolan, you have continued to allow Bishop
Nicholas DiMarzio to remain as Bishop of Brooklyn despite the fact that two men
have come forward to report that Fr. Nicholas DiMarzio sexually abused them as
children in two parishes in Jersey City, New Jersey. Aren’t you as
deceptive as Theodore McCarrick and Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict?
Aren’t
all you bishops the same? Isn’t it time for the pots to stop calling the
kettles black and admit that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is
corrupt to the core?
Robert
M. Hoatson, Ph.D.,
Co-founder
and President
Road
to Recovery, Inc.
Reprinted from: Bishop Accountability News November 16
2020 Vol.1, No. 219`
