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‘Pope Punts; Backs Pell & Mueller Over O’Malley; Failed CDF To Get 5 Years To “Develop Proposals” To Judge Bishops On Child Abuse Crimes

Jerry Slevin

Pope Francis is conducting Vatican business as usual at the “old boys’ club”, it appears. Pope Francis has responded, in effect, to Peter Saunders’ attempt to get the illusory papal advisory “abuse commission” under Cardinal Sean O’Malley to hold Cardinal George Pell, Bishop Juan Barros and other bishops accountable for alleged child sexual abuse cover-up crimes. The pope has apparently passed the buck to his successor and evidently left the unaccountable bishops’ abuse scandal mess under its current failing Vatican set up.

In effect, the fundamentally flawed Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) under Cardinal Gerhard Mueller and his tainted US Jesuit aide, Fr. Robert Geisinger, will continue to run the “abuse cover up zero tolerance show”…