UNITED STATES
The Blaze
August 30, 2018
By Breck Dumas
The first bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter told his flock in a recent homily that he doesn’t believe the cardinals and bishops who are claiming they didn’t know about sexual abuse allegations against disgraced Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
What did he say?
Addressing the church’s handling of the McCarrick scandal, Bishop Steven Lopes told his parishioners, “I’ll tell you what response I think is not good enough: It’s the parade of cardinals and bishops who have rushed to the television cameras, clutching their pectoral crosses, saying, ‘I knew nothing.’
“I don’t believe it, and I am one of them. I don’t believe it,” the bishop reiterated, telling the audience that when he was in seminary, McCarrick often visited the school.
“And we all knew,” Lopes emphasized.
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