We said that Archbishop Sambi had been Nuncio in England. This is inaccurate. Archbishop Sambi has worked all over the world in some very interesting and sensitive posts:
He was transferred to the Apostolic Nunciature in Jerusalem on July 19, 1971, and subsequently to the Apostolic Nunciatures in Cuba in 1974, in Algeria in 1978, in Nicaragua in 1979, in Belgium in 1981, and then in India in May, 1984 with the rank of Counselor.
Archbishop Sambi was consecrated as Bishop and made Titular Archbishop of Belcastro on November 9, 1985.
He was nominated Pro-Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi on October 10, 1985, Pro-Apostolic Nuncio in Indonesia on November 28, 1991, and Apostolic Nuncio in Israel and Cyprus, and Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine on June 6, 1998.
It should incline you to believe the truth of the report from the Daily more now than before. They don't give much of a rationale for thinking that besides the fact that they had misgivings. Unfortunately, they insist on overshadowing Mr. Wojnowski's claims with slurs on his mental health, suggesting perhaps, that he is being ungrateful in spurning the offers of counseling. It's a dirty, smarmy article.
Look, he's a man who'd give most Holy Communion to a public sinner and phony Catholic like John Kerry is either a coward or a fool.
But what of Archbishop Sambi? Well, this offers an opportunity to criticize ++Sambi and throw a spotlight on some of his other acts which show him to be the kind of man who's willing to do his homework, but perhaps has a different agenda when it comes to episcopal appointments. You might ask, what does +Sambi's all-too-professional acts as Nuncio have to do with treating an alleged sex abuse victim with contempt? What does it have to do with the accusations that he made those insulting and contemptible comments in the first place? As Nuncio, he is responsible for selecting good men for the Episcopate. He provides the Holy Father with three candidates, but the Holy Father may choose someone else, as he most certainly did when he chose Father Wagner of Linz to the chagrin of the Austrian Bishop's Conference. Well anyway, we're concerned with a bully Archbishop because there's a certain type and set behaviors with churchmen, and human beings in general, when they're confronted by something they can't control but throws light on what they truly are -- wolves. How many times have laymen come to Bishops asking for bread and they've gotten snakes and contemptuous officialese sneers?
Archbishop Sambi's appointments in the past do not inspire much faith in report from Politics Daily, that he is "charitable". What kind of a man would preside over such deplorable appointments as these? He gave us Archbishop Wuerl, but he also presided over the appointment of Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, who contemned women's foot washing and yoga. He also gave us Bishop Pates of Des Moines, whose church wreckovation is legendary with definitive contacts to homosexual activists with the Call to Action and James Moudry. And he gave us another very bad Bishop Frederick Campbell, Ph.D. whose heretical opinions against evangelizing the Jews and the Jewish question are as legendary as they are condescending. Did he give more of an ear of compassion to delators who reported on the bad behavior and un-Catholic acts of the men he chooses to appoint? Well, Arcbishop Sambi has done un-Catholic things himself, so who can fault him?
Of course, he's no ++Jadot who gave us such poor performers as +Gumbleton, +O'Brien, +Maida and +Hubbard, but the American Episcopacy still suffers from the poor harvests of seminarians in the 70s and 80s.
From the look of his non-clerical attire, his many poor episcopal appointments, we expect a man on parade who's incapable of treating a angry Pole with some equanimity and respect. Condescending to offer him the services of a psychologist is just what we'd expect from such a man, such an administration, so faultlessly showing a face of sleek conformity and kindness to the world and snarling like a ravening wolf when there seem to be no repercussions.
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