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Qui seminat ventum, turbinem metent – says in Latin, but we also know in Hungarian: who sows winds, reaps storms.
The wounded man this time is none other than St. II. Pope John Paul II (1920-2005), after whom a square in Budapest was named. His name is associated with the acceleration of the consecration process within the Catholic Church, and now it is his sacred nature that is being questioned by some Catholic circles, especially, but not exclusively, in the United States.
Furthermore, she has not yet been declared patron of Europe, nor has she been inaugurated as a church physician, the Catholic news site Magyar Kurír reported.
In an editorial, the National Catholic Reporter urges American bishops to crack down on the cult of the Polish Pope, and Kathleen Cummings, director of a center at the Catholic University of Notre Dame, told The New York Times: II. Juan Pablo
were canonized too quickly, and if they had waited five years, they probably wouldn’t have started
due to his involvement in the church’s sexual abuse scandal.
The abuse scandal has now reached the Pope and the Holy See published a report the other day on the responsibility of former US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for the case of the Archbishop of Washington. Even in the United States, this was not the only abuse scandal that has cast a bad light on the Catholic Church in recent years or decades; you can read about these matters here and here, for example.
But it was the most heinous of them.
McCarrick, now 90, was the first cardinal to be forced to resign two years ago after sexual charges against him and even expelled from the clergy, and his honors and honorary doctorates were revoked.
Scandalous sins?
In turn, his career II. During the papacy of John Paul II, despite the accusations against him, he steadily curved upward, and during this time he was appointed to Washington.
Tamás Jézsó, professor of Catholic religion and editor of the blog Felszabtér, told the Index about the importance of the McCarrick case:
The report is a very significant event in the history of the Catholic Church. It gives an x-ray of the behavior of the church and also of how a common-law criminal could have reached such heights in the hierarchy. However, Pope Francis has proclaimed a fight against sexual abuse, and this could bring about a cleansing process, a radical elimination of such issues.
On the blog, Jézsó also asked about the position of the Hungarian Catholic Church and received a response. This includes:
Since last fall, each diocese … has a service available and receives all complaints that … relate to sexual abuse or abuse … Church law allows the most severe punishment to be applied in many cases that they are not covered by secular law. punishable.
(In many cases, it is not child sexual abuse, but abuse.)
All this St. II. John Paul also questions the legacy; the Polish high priest was the head of the Catholic Church at a critical time for harassment, 1978-2005.
His personality is very controversial, but his merits cannot be disputed either, as he has taken many positive actions, which we have also experienced in Hungary. He was the first modern Pope to be very close to the hearts of the faithful. But we can’t forget his dark sides either, because he also had flagrant sins. Abuses within the church were shrouded in papal secrecy
– said Tamás Jézsó, adding that there are organizations not only in the United States, but also in South America and France,
that require II. The retreat of the consecration of Juan Pablo.
They persevere on Polish soil
Did the archbishop knowingly block McCarrick?
Although there is no direct evidence in this regard, it is likely that from the information received II. Pope John Paul’s previous experiences in Poland on how to destroy the church’s position with statements against the bishops from the air influenced McCarrick’s belief in denial.
He wrote about the report on the denominational news portal Catholic.ma.
In any case, his homeland, Poland, is together with the former Archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyła. Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish Episcopal Conference, also defended II. Juan Pablo. He said the former archbishop was cynically misled by McCarrick and several other American bishops. Przemysław Czarnek, Polish Minister of Education and Science, said in an interview, described by the telegraph office, that St. II. Juan Pablo was the first to undertake the fight against sexual abuse within the church.
There is no cloudless tranquility around the Polish Church house. Just died, at the age of 97 he was Henryk Gulbinowicz wrocławi Archbishop accused of pedophilia and even sanctioned by the Church recently.
(Cover Image: Getty Images Hungary / Peter Macdiarmid)
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