Cardinal McCarrick and the gay mafia: corruption of clergy now rivals the age of the Borgias
Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/cardinal-mccarrick-and-the-gay-mafia-corruption-of-clergy-now-rivals-the-ag
Matthew, the Borgia age does not rival this clergy!
- it was largely local to Rome, not widespread over a land as large as half a continent;
- it was heterosexual;
- the sex partners were consenting adults in the sense they had canonic age to marry, if the guy they had lain with hadn't been celibates and consecrated such.
Note, the marital age in Rome for girls in the time of St Thomas Aquinas, in the time of the Borgias and in the last years of Pius IX as secular ruler was 12. As for boys it was 14. The now usual 18/18 rule came to Paris 2006 and to Rome in 1870.
Note also, if a boy were molested, the perpetrator was very routinely defrocked. I don't think even the Borgia age was any different, even if the actual decree is by St Pius V a bit later in 1568 (De horrendo scelere). Hence the trust children had in Catholic priests and the distrust everyone had of defrocked clergy - still active as late as in the days of Émile Combes. As he had been Seminarian, and as he was an Anti-Catholic politician, Catholic Cartoonists often showed him in cassock and called him "Abbé Combes" (Reverend Combes) to allude to his likeness to defrocked clergy.
I'd say comparing Cardinal McCarrick and similar of the Vatican II Sect to Borgias - there are more than St Francis Borgia who could take that as a slur!
Hans Georg Lundahl
Cergy
St Dominic Guzmán
4.VIII.2018
(Founder of Dominicans, there are at least 3 other Sts Dominic : Loricato, de Silos, de la Calzada)
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