The news is just breaking on Italian websites as I write this article.
Il Fatto Quotidiano, an Italian journal, is confirming it has seen the 300-page dossier, containing names of members of the gay lobby — a dossier some believe led to Pope Benedict's resignation in 2013.
"The report contains a detailed and disturbing picture of the moral and material corruption of the clergy, with names, surnames and circumstances," writes reporter Francesca Fagnani.
“We are ... able to view a document on papal letterhead included in the investigation, and here we publish an excerpt. It is a list of prelates and laymen who belong to the so-called gay lobby, which through blackmail and secrets could affect, or have conditioned, positions and careers (theirs, like those of others). We will not reveal the names shown in the list, but we can confirm that among the names there are people removed by the Pope, others moved from office, others who still hold important positions in strategic organs for the Vatican, such as Propaganda Fide and even the Secretariat of State.”
Among those implicated in the dossier is none other than Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, who has repeatedly claimed he knew nothing of his former housemate, Theodore McCarrick's homosexual predation, although they lived together on the same floor of the same house for six years in Washington, D.C.
The report contains a detailed and disturbing picture of the moral and material corruption of the clergy, with names, surnames and circumstances.
"Kevin Farrell was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Washington precisely because it was McCarrick who wanted him as a deputy," Fagnani has reported. She added, "The two were part of the 'magic circle' of Pope Francis."
A case involving Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, Kevin Joseph Farrell, is said to have been filed at the Congregation for the Doctrine for the Faith in the Vatican, at the Dicastery that is responsible for investigating sexual and other crimes against good morals.
If not rebutted, this news would fall squarely on the Pope like a boulder, since Cardinal Farrell was appointed directly by the Holy Father to head the Dicastery of the Family.
In response to Il Fatto Quotidiano's queries with regard to the existence of a file on Farrell, the Vatican has refused to confirm or deny.
"There will be no communication," was the response from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
"The Vatican therefore does not deny Il Fatto Quotidiano, but chooses the strategy of silence as for McCarrick," Fagani writes.
Pope Benedict's sudden resignation in 2013 is allegedly linked to a 300-page dossier; some media reported that Benedict chose to resign the same day he received the dossier, the result of findings of an investigation commissioned by the Holy Father into clerical corruption and malfeasance.
The investigation, itself, led by Cardinals Julián Herranz, Jozef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, is said to have uncovered canonical crimes involving sex and financial corruption. "Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments," according to an article published in La Repubblica in February of 2013.
"The investigation of the three Cardinals Herranz-Tomko-De Giorgi has so far remained top secret," Fagnani writes in her report. "However, a not so small circle of people had the opportunity to read it and before the Conclave, to give a hand to the Holy Spirit in electing Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio to the papal throne. In drawing up the dossier, tens of Priests and Prelates allegedly were questioned, and documents of all kinds were collected."
According to a senior member of the Curia, "the extent of homosexual practice in the Vatican has 'never been worse,' despite efforts begun by Benedict XVI to root out sexual deviancy from the curia ... ."
Now, yet again, we find ourselves in unchartered waters with the release of this story.
If true, the damage to the Holy See would in my estimation be irreparable.
Pope Francis needs to break the silence and the Holy See needs to deny or confirm this latest potentially catastrophic news account.
I’m afraid that so many good Catholics just are no longer capable of hearing such stories day after day after day.
Lord, please, we beg you: come to the rescue of Your Church! Please, Lord, please!
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