WASHINGTON (DC)
Catholic News Service
July 30, 2018
By Carol Zimmermann
For his homilies on the weekend of July 21-22, Father Edward Looney, administrator of two rural Wisconsin parishes, planned to preach about ways to include God on summer vacation.
His rough outline was scribbled on Post-it notes.
But during the Saturday evening Mass when he heard the opening lines of the first reading from Jeremiah, the priest switched gears, deciding he had to say something about sexual abuse allegations against now former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington.
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture,” the passage from Jeremiah 23 begins.
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