Kresta in the Afternoon – November 10, 2020 – Hour 1
+ Kresta Comments: McCarrick report released
- Description: Since the summer of 2018 we have asked how Theodore McCarrick was able to rise through the ranks of Church officials to become such a trusted adviser to the papacy. There is no easy answer, which means there is no easy solution - especially for the Laity. Al offers some initial thoughts.
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+ McCarrick Report: No Smoking Gun, but Massive System Failure
- Description: For nearly three years now Catholics have demanded to know how Theodore McCarrick was able to rise to such a lofty position. The report released today does not contain a “smoking gun” that would provide the answer, but does show how he was able to count on “members of the club” to let him slide by. George Weigel has more.
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George Weigel
George Weigel is a New York Times bestselling author of many books, most recently The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission as well as Witness to Hope and The Irony of Modern Catholic History. He's a distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center. Visit EPPC.org. - Resources:
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- JPII biographer says 'pathological' McCarrick 'lied to’ the pope (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/jpii-biographer-says-pathological-mccarrick-lied-to-the-pope-77113)
- McCarrick, not John Paul II, is the story of the report (https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/11/theodore-mccarrick-not-john-paul-ii-is-the-story-of-the-mccarrick-report)
- The McCarrick Report: No Smoking Gun, but Massive System Failure (https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/10/the-mccarrick-report-no-smoking-gun-but-massive-system-failure/)
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The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission
The Catholic Church is on the verge of a transition of great consequence. As Catholic theologian, historian, and papal biographer George Weigel notes, the next pope will probably have been a teenager or a very young man during the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965); he may even have been a child during those years. Thus the next pope will not have been shaped by the experience of the Council and the immediate debates over its meaning and reception like Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis. The next pope, Weigel writes, "will be a transitional figure in a different way than his immediate predecessors. So it seems appropriate to ponder now what the Church has learned during the pontificates of these three conciliar popes—and to suggest what the next pope might take from that learning." Drawing on his personal discussions with John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, as well as his decades of experience with Catholics from every continent, George Weigel examines the major challenges confronting the Catholic Church and its 1.3 billion believers in the twenty-first century: challenges the next pontificate must address as the Church enters new, uncharted territory. To what is the Holy Spirit calling this Church-in-transition? What are the qualities needed in the man who will lead the Church from the Chair of Saint Peter? Taking lessons from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, George Weigel proposes what the Catholic leaders of the future, especially the next pope, must do to remain faithful to the Holy Spirit's summons to renewed evangelical witness, intensified missionary fervor, and Christ-centered reform in the wake of grave institutional failures, mission confusion, counter-witness, and the secularist challenge to biblical faith. (learn more)
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+ McCarrick Report: How Should Catholics Feel Today?
- Description: It’s taken more than two years, but the McCarrick report has finally been released. Cardinal Dolan warned last week that it could be a “Black eye” for the Church. So how should Catholics feel today? Stephen White weighs in.
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Stephen White
Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. - Resources:
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- Waiting for the McCarrick Report (https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/08/06/waiting-for-the-mccarrick-report/)
- Lessons of the Latest Abuse Numbers (https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/07/09/lessons-of-the-latest-abuse-numbers/)
- Don’t Sanitize McCarrick’s Legacy (https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/02/27/dont-sanitize-mccarricks-legacy/)
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