"The church would be better off with two retired popes!"

"The con man in the cardinal’s cap"

Hugh Hewitt adds his voice to those of a large number of Catholic laity who are deeply disappointed and outraged by the pederasty scandal in the Catholic Church and theresponse to it by Pope Francis whom Hewitt says

wrote a pablum-filled letter on Monday assigning collective responsibility for the crimes and the coverups to everyone.

Hugh's response?

To be very specific: To hell with that. I didn’t abuse my CCD students (mandatory Saturday or weeknight classes for students attending public schools) when I taught them as a volunteer in the ’80s. I didn’t have a single abusive priest or nun in 12 years of Catholic education. This horror has ownership, and the deed’s many names include Wuerl. And with Monday’s “everybody is to blame” mea non-culpa from Pope Francis, his name is on it too. Wuerl needs to resign. And the church would be better off with two retired popes and a new man absolutely dedicated to supporting the reformers, not suppressing them.

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