Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Archives

Alleging sex abuse, 4 sue Vatican over handling of McCarrick

Nov 20, 2020

Four accusers of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have filed a lawsuit against the Vatican, arguing it should be held liable for allowing the now-disgraced cleric to serve in multiple positions in New York and New Jersey when it knew of numerous allegations of sexual abuse against him.

By David Porter

‘Who am I to judge?’ helps explain pope’s view

Nov 18, 2020

Pope Francis’s famous quip “Who am I to judge?” could go a long way toward explaining his initial attitude toward Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked and disgraced American cardinal who was the subject of a two-year Vatican investigation that was released last week.

By Nicole Winfield

McCarrick report dominates first day of U.S. bishops’ meeting
- Nov 17, 2020
A new virtual format left little room for dialogue at day one of the U.S. Bishops annual fall meeting, but for one 45-minute stretch more than a dozen bishops gave their takes on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

By John Lavenburg
McCarrick report should be lesson in transparency, say canon lawyers
- Nov 14, 2020
The Vatican report on Theodore E. McCarrick’s rise through the U.S. episcopal ranks should be a contemporary lesson in transparency for the entire church, said U.S. experts in church law.

By Tom Tracy
Lori: Report marks new era of transparency, which laity ‘have rightly demanded’
- Nov 13, 2020
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori in a Nov. 10 letter to the Catholic faithful of his archdiocese said the long-awaited Vatican report on former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick “brings us to another moment of painful awareness of our church’s past failures.”

By Catholic News Service
Polish bishops defend John Paul II after McCarrick report
- Nov 13, 2020
Polish bishops defended St. John Paul II on Friday against evidence that he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians, seeking to salvage a papal legacy that has been badly tarnished by his inaction on clergy sexual abuse.

By Monika Scislowska and Nicole Winfield