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This is totally damning for +Tobin. A prominent high-ranking cleric in a leadership position at one of America's most prominent Catholic universities, gets busted in a sex abuse and cover-up scandal like this, all these years on? How can +Tobin still be in his leadership role?

I was saying this back during the McCarrick saga: it's an injustice that +Tobin and +Cupich were never put in the hotseat and interrogated about who/what/where/when they knew regarding abuse and cover-ups, considering they are two of the most powerful clerics in the US and very close personal confidants of/allies to the now-disgraced McCarrick. As long as those two never got put under the microscope, the Church was basically saying: "we're not proactive on rooting this out: you can still get away with it as you can cover up your personal evidence decently."

You mean to tell me that "nighty-night baby" +Tobin, the buddy-buddy to McCarrick, the powerful and influential prelate with connections throughout the US heirarchy and Rome, and current leader of the Newark archdiocese, had no clue whatsoever, not the faintest whiff in the air, of abuse and cover-up efforts by the other high-ranking cleric he knew, in charge of a prominent American Catholic university in his jurisdiction? Really, this only reconfirms for me my theory that +Tobin is actively part of abuse and cover-ups.

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I don't like to pile on, but I seem to remember +McElroy being on that list of then-bishops now-cardinals that were "in-the-know" with respect to McCarrick and his circle particularly.

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If you don’t like to “pile on”, and the editors/moderators are fine with singling out +Tobin, then please include Wuerl (who is still flying first class to the Vatican fairly often with his $2mm slush fund), Dolan, Farrell, et. al.

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