Bransfield is a protégé of the disgraced former cardinal, Theodore McCarrick. We are still waiting for the Vatican’s promised report on how McCarrick rose to power and influence. Is it unreasonable to speculate that the same people and powers that supported McCarrick’s rise through the hierarchy are still at work, softening the penalty on Bransfield?

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