TORONTO (CANADA)
Church Militant

September 9, 2018

‘I myself saw photos of McCarrick nude on all fours on a seminarian’s bed’

Ex-seminarian Paul Wood wrote this open letter to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, copying a lawyer and addressing it specifically to his ordinary, Toronto archbishop Cdl. Thomas Collins. Collins responded, claiming that the “problem of homosexual immorality was dealt with several decades ago” and what Wood experienced in the past “is definitely not true” in the seminary today. Collins reiterated Church teaching that chastity is required of all and that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, concluding, “This is a long struggle, for we are going against powerful forces in the media and society that oppose the Gospel, but the faith is clear and that is what we proclaim.”

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Dear Bishops,

I am writing you requesting…