okay meanwhile there's over the weekend
the other big news is that there was
this terrible shooting at the Madden I
guess it was Madden tournament in
Jacksonville Florida this is a game or
tournament so basically people get
together and they play Madden for money
Madden football and the Jacksonville
Sheriff's Office has identified the
alleged shooter as a white male who had
died at the scene he's 24 years old
from Baltimore so he was coming
obviously from a gun-free zone cuz
Baltimore as we know it doesn't have any
gun control laws except for how it has
tons of gun control laws he died from
this hope inflicted gunshot wound inside
Chicago pizza after going on a shooting
rampage the left two dead and 11 other
people injured it was a gun-free zone
with not enough security and then this
is the typical story unfortunately of a
lot of these sorts of mass shootings
when you have a public event a popular
event popular public event you have to
have people there with guns and my
sister's wedding happened I paid
personally for security with guns to
make sure that nobody could actually get
in my sister's wedding and that was a
private event this is a major public
event that was a gun-free zone where
they didn't have enough security and
this guy got in with a gun he was a
disappointed gamer so he had gone in the
first round he lost and then he was
upset with his life that he went out and
decided to murder a bunch of people
which is just evil and sick he used at
least one handgun in his attack so a ban
on assault rifles would apparently do
nothing he had previously appeared in a
photo with a Buffalo Bills player after
winning another competition there's been
no motive announced for the killings
there reports that he snapped after
losing an event he stayed at a local
hotel the night before the shooting
they've impounded his car the
investigation is still ongoing ea sports
issued a statement saying we are aware
of an incident at a sanctioned Madden
championship series competition in
Jacksonville we are working with
authorities to gather facts at this
stage this is a horrible incident our
deepest sympathies go out to all
involved I want to point out the
hypocrisy of folks in the media who are
immediately jumping to gun control today
it's hilarious because literally five
days ago they were suggesting that it
was impossible you should not politicize
the killing of Molly Tibbets in Iowa you
should certainly not say that that has
anything to do with illegal immigration
that'll be politicization of the issue
and I discussed at length on Friday
what's true about that and what's not
true about that the fact that we know
more about Molly Tibbets is killing then
we know about the average mass shooting
in the first few days and that's why you
can say with a certain amount of
certainty that illegal immigration had
something to do with the Molly tip it's
killing we're in this case we don't know
where he got the gun we barely know what
kind
the guy used we don't know about his
criminal history we don't know about his
psychological history there are a lot of
other issues that conflate and confound
the media immediately jumped to gun
control because it was deeply necessary
for them to push their agenda this just
shows the hypocrisy of so many in the
media who are willing to overlook the
their their ban on politicization of
major events so long as it pushes their
particular agenda the police have ID'd
this guy it does raise some questions
about the the lack of purpose in
American society there a lot of folks
today talking about relationship between
gaming and all of this that of course is
spurious this was first of all not a
violent video game so you can't even
make that connection it was it was a
football video game but the idea that
you are a professional video game player
at 24 years old and they basically our
job consists of sitting in a room alone
and playing video games I can't say I
think that that's great for society that
more and more people are doing that and
that's not a rip on people play video
games you have tons of people at the
office who play video games tons of
people who play Madden but it seems to
me that part of a well-rounded life
should be getting out a little bit more
and it appears that this guy was not
getting out a little bit more as I've
said about mass shootings before we do
have a problem masculinity in our
society
not that all masculinity is toxic but
the opposite if you do not task young
men with going out this guy's 24 I was
married by the time I was 24 I had a job
by the time I was 24 years old I
graduated from law school by the time I
was 24 the fact that 24 years old in
American society now is considered a kid
that the level of responsibility that
attaches to people in their mid 20s is
basically zero they are expected to live
at home mooching off your parents not
for reasons that you have family
solidarity but just because you don't
want to pay your bills and that you do
this all the way until you're basically
30 and then you start looking to get
married and have a family the prolonged
adolescence of young men is not good for
American society for a variety of
reasons now is that leading to an uptick
in the number of mass shootings like
this it seems like there is some basic
connection I don't think that it is the
main factor I think that there are a
bunch of factors that are that are
conflated here but to refuse to
acknowledge that young men are not being
treated with the level of responsibility
necessary from the time they are
teenagers to mature into fully blown
adult human beings who are capable of
handling their lives is a mistake also
it'll be interesting to see what this
guy's psychological
history was and how well it was taken
care of okay in just a second I want to
talk about what I think is actually the
in some ways the worst story of the day
this is the worst story of the day it
really is a terrible story and it speaks
to the liberalisation of the Catholic
Church and a serious problem with
institutional protection so a few weeks
ago we talked about probably two weeks
ago we talked about the scandal that
broke out in the state of Pennsylvania
with regard to the archdiocese in
Pennsylvania covering up over 30 years a
thousand cases of child molestation in
the church and we talked about the
problems that exist within every
institution the tendency to cover for
the problems of an institution in order
to quote-unquote protect the institution
and this exists not only in the Catholic
Church it exists in various religious
communities around the country and
around the world
it exists in government's certainly it
exists in public schools there's always
the human instinct is to feel solidarity
with a particular structure you find to
be important and then whenever that
structure is threatened particularly if
it's threatened routinely you tend to
circle the wagons and defend anything
that's happening in house and this is
how you end up with the with the quiet a
sense to true evil that happens so often
around the planet you wonder how Nazi
Germany happened basically there's a
population that for bad reasons and
wrongly felt threatened by the outside
world decided to circulate basically
circle the wagons around the Nazi regime
and then the Nazi regime decided to kill
all of the enemies of the people
including the Jews and people went along
with that because the in-group was more
important than the out group and the out
group was threatening them in-group
out-group politics is deeply important
when it comes to understanding how
institutions get perverted from the
inside well now there's stories that
basically the institutional perversion
of the Catholic Church has reached up to
the top levels of the Catholic Church
this is from the the NC register the
National Catholic Register in an
extraordinary 11 page written Testament
a former apostolate apostolate nun Co to
the United States has accused several
senior prelates of complicity in
covering up art Bishop Theodore
McCarrick allegations of sexual abuse
and has claimed that Pope Francis knew
about sanctions imposed on then Cardinal
McCarrick by pope benedict xvi but chose
to repeal them Archbishop Carlo Maria
Vigano 77 who served as apostolic nuncio
in Washington DC from 2011 to 2016 said
that in the late 2000s Benedict had
imposed on Cardinal McCarrick saying
similar to those now imposed on him by
Pope Francis and that Vigano personally
told Pope Francis about those sanctions
in 2013 so mckarrick has been accused of
sexual abuse of young seminarians he's
also been accused of engaging in
homosexual acts with a bunch of people
who are under his auspices which is a
violation obviously of church code and
Church conduct and he was not turned
over to the proper authorities
the there are no allegations that the
church knew about him molesting underage
boys but if the if such allegations had
existed in the church didn't turn him
over to the secular authorities it's a
serious problem the truth is that the
the question of church justice just
historically speeching speaking
stretches back a millennium it stretches
back all the way back to when you know
Henry the second trying to say that we
should actually try priests in secular
courts in Great Britain at the very in
England in you know the in the 12th and
13th centuries
so the sort of battle between secular
and church has been going on for a very
long time but one of the premises of the
idea the church should handle its own
business is that the church will
actually handle its own business the
church did not handle its own business
according to Archbishop Pagano he said
in his written statement simultaneously
released to the register and other media
that Pope Francis continued to cover for
mckarrick and not only did he not take
into account the sanctions that Pope
Benedict had imposed on him but also
made mckarrick his trusted counselor
mikanos story has now been backed by a
couple of other sources
he said the former Archbishop of
Washington advised the Pope to appoint a
number of bishops in the United States
including Cardinals blade I think it's
pronounced blaze Kubek of Chicago and
Joseph Tobin of Newark Archbishop Vigano
who said his conscience dictates the
truth be known as the corruption has
reached the very top of the church's
hierarchy ended his testimony by calling
on Pope Francis and all those implicated
in the cover-up of Archbishop Makarios
abuse to resign the accusation basically
suggests that McCarrick has abused
legitimately dozens of people the media
has reported written written reports of
victims of abuse spanning decades
including a teenage boy three young
priests or seminarians and a man now in
his 60s who alleges that mckarrick
abused him from the age of eleven the
Pope later accepted mccarran's
resignation from the College of
Cardinals but Vigano wrote the Benedick
much earlier had imposed sanctions on
mckarrick similar to those handed down
by Cardinal parolin the Cardinal was to
leave the seminary where he was living
he was forbidden to celebrate Mass in
public to participate in public meetings
to give lectures to travel with the
obligation of dedicating himself to a
life of prayer and penance he said the
sanctions were applied as far back as
2009 2010 Benedict's measure came years
after Archbishop pagano's predecessor at
the nunciature had immediately informed
the Holy See as soon as they had learned
of Archbishop Makarios gravely immoral
behavior with seminarians and praised
basically the accusation here is that
all of these memos were ignored by the
top levels of the of the College of
Cardinals and the papacy MacDonald
claims he wrote several memos to a
series of Cardinals who repeatedly
refused to do anything about this they
basically gave in to what he essentially
calls a homosexual clique in the
Catholic Church
McDonough says that he personally
repeated the sanction to mckarrick and
the Cardinal muttering in a barely
comprehensible way admitted he perhaps
made the mistake of sleeping in the same
bed with some seminarians at his beach
house but he said this as if it had no
importance Vigano says in his testimony
apparently Pope Francis knew about all
of this he said it was clear that from
the time of Pope Francis's election
mckarrick now free from all constraints
had felt free to travel continuously see
lectures and interviews he said
mckarrick who backed Pope Francis became
the kingmaker for appointments in the
Curia and the United States and the most
listened to advisor in the Vatican for
relations with the Obama administration
he says that appointments of other
Cardinals were orchestrated by mckarrick
it is a massive massive scandal and
Catholics are there there are a lot of
traditional Catholics who are looking at
this and wondering if Pope Francis can
actually survive this whether Pope
Francis should step down for having
helped cover all of this up because Pope
Francis has been extraordinarily soft on
LGBT issues it's something the media
have taken note of for a very long time
and there's a feeling among traditional
Catholics that perhaps his softness on
those issues led him to basically look
the other way with regard to this
Archbishop McCarrick who was actually
engaged in violations of Catholic code
with other seminarians alongside
allegations of him molesting underage
kids really really troubling stuff but
again any institution that refuses to
cleanse itself is going to pay the price
for all of this do Pope Francis tweeted
out something insane about this he
tweeted out something like he prays for
the victims he prays to Mary for the
victims and it's like dude you're the
Pope now it's time for you to actually
do something about it right you're seems
like you
could be in a position to help God out
here I mean I'm not I'm not a Catholic
but it seems like if you're the Pope you
might be in a position to actually you
know help cleanse the Catholic Church of
this stuff as opposed to just tweeting
out vague references to prayer right I'm
not usually person who says that prayer
is not an answer but when it comes to
you having the power to do something
about this at the head of a church to
cleanse your own church of this stuff
you're gonna need to do more than pray
about this this 1-8 on God this one's on
the church your NAFTA and this is true
for Jewish communities and Catholic
communities and Protestant communities
and Muslim communities it is true for
every community a community that fails
to cleanse itself of evil is a community
that becomes complicit in that evil
