A sign of things to come.....

Accused pedophile Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (a/k/a Godfather Bishop Nicky Mars) and his former Brooklyn consigliere Bishop Edward Scharfenberger got some more bad news last week  ---  although some might think it's a good thing for the overall cover-up of some of what made things blow up in the Buffalo Diocese in the first place


The separately incorporated (please take note; the Catholic Church will be saying that a lot, and with increasing prayerful reverence, as this pedophile crisis continues to unfold) Christ the King Seminary in the Dioceses of Buffalo is closing its doors  >>>  for financial reasons, under all of the circumstances now existing in the Diocese of Buffalo, according to Bishop Scharfenberger  

It is an ill wind that blows no good  ---  One of the things that blew up on the recently-fired Buffalo Bishop Malone's watch was a sex scandal at Buffalo's Christ the King Seminary involving a "love triangle" between two seminarians and a priest instructor  ---  so, closing the seminary down fast cleans up that mess quickly, without any more bad stuff coming out of it

Christ the King Seminary is a "separately incorporated" apostolate of the Buffalo diocese, which has blown up big time during the past year. Bishop Richard Malone resigned his leadership of the diocese in December 2019, after a Vatican-ordered apostolic visitation, or investigation into Malone’s leadership by Brooklyn's Bishop DiMarzio.  Most of that inquiry was into the mishandling of pedophile cases and the clergy accused of sexual misconduct.  A big part of DiMarzio's investigations involved Bishop Malone's handling of  multiple sex scandals emanating from the Diocese of Buffalo's Christ the King Seminary.

The move to close the seminary was announced two months after Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany was appointed to be the temporary apostolic administrator of the diocese.  Before being made the Bishop of Albany, NY,  Edward Scharfenberger was DiMarzio's main man in keeping a lid on the pedophilia problem in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

In a February 4th  press release, the Buffalo diocese announced  that Bishop Scharfenberger was forming a committee   >>>  “to ‘re-imagine’ and provide specific recommendations as to how priestly formation will continue for seminarians of the Diocese of Buffalo, while also providing ongoing education in pastoral ministry and theological training for lay women and men, as well as for those seeking ordination to the permanent diaconate.”

Also in the February 4th release by the Buffalo Diocese was this:  “Over the past 10 years, Christ the King Seminary has experienced an operating deficit, amounting to $500,000 on average annually.  In some years, the Seminary has been the recipient of extraordinary financial gifts which have served to offset the operating deficit, but which cannot be relied upon year-over-year....   The Members of the Corporation of the Seminary have determined that it is not responsible from a fiscal standpoint to continue to operate with such a structural deficit that requires extraordinary support to sustain operations....”