Cardinal Farrel, McCarrick’s friend, has a strange view of the priesthood | Silere non possum

Il cardinale Kevin Farrel, amico di McCarrick, ha aperto la conferenza “Pastori e fedeli laici chiamati a camminare insieme” in Vaticano
Inside the Vatican City State, the conference “Pastors and Lay Faithful Called to Walk Together” opened on Feb. 16, 2023. The meeting is being held in the Synod’s New Hall and will end on Feb. 18.
The goal, the Dicastery reports, is to raise awareness, pastors and lay faithful alike, of co-responsibility. The feeling, however, is not this. On numerous occasions lately, a demonization of presbyters (especially those who are well trained) is being promoted in order to praise, on the contrary, the figure of the laity.
A struggle, this one, that is taking the place of the odious distinction between “modernists and traditionalists” that journalists like so much. Yet, priests have never cooperated in belittling the figure of the laity; on the contrary, they have always maintained that the laity can hold certain roles but, as the law itself provides, they …