Cardinal defrocked

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Most who have been here a bit know I was with a local Scout Troop as an adult leader. My son was a scout worked his way to Eagle. He was with a primarily Catholic Scout Troop. We won Cardinals troop quite regularly, and our local Cardinal was the one recently defrocked. This crap just hit quite close to home.
 
Not being in those circles got no clue what the current scuttlebutt is, I imagine the number of detractors is increasing but he still has supporters/deniers. GW university just retracted the honorary doctorate they gave him in 2004
 
I went to Catholic school, it was run by nuns, so I made it through unscathed mostly under the belt but above it I got ice thrown at my face one day and it might have left a little scar. I think it was unintentional and hidden in the snow or whatever. That hit close to home, but what is this defrocked guys name? Giving anyone weird unecessary authority or power seems to attract creeps who wish to use it to help in their predatory desires, dreams, goals, and addictions.

Anyone who wants to be the leader of a group or population and their guide should be suspect because its a perfect cover and opportunity for the criminal minded. It might even be more of a twisted turn on to take advantage of the naive and in a sacred role or context as well as an extra sort of fetish of profaning or whatever.

It sounds like he got in trouble for defrocking even before he was defrocked, but I may like to read about this particular criminal case, so if its allowed, do you have a link? If its linked I might have missed it somehow.
 
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