Theodore McCarrick Archives

Church now faces ‘Sheen dilemma’ in evaluating saints and their halos

Dec 8, 2019

Going forward, in order to claim a halo, any candidate who was in a leadership position in the Church – meaning, usually, a bishop or religious superior – will have to be shown to have had “clean hands” on the abuse scandals.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Bishops take new actions to hold themselves accountable for abuse in 2019

Dec 6, 2019

The clergy sexual abuse crisis continued to command a large amount of attention and action from the U.S. bishops throughout 2019.

By Catholic News Service

Baltimore prelate calls narrative of tension between US bishops, pope bogus

Dec 6, 2019

“There’s the narrative that we bishops are just on the verge of schism with one another but, surprise, surprise, we are not,” Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore told Crux.

By Inés San Martín

Lawsuit: McCarrick victim told pope of sex abuse in 1988

Dec 5, 2019

A man claims in a lawsuit filed under a recently enacted New Jersey law that he told Pope John Paul II in 1988 about being sexually abused as a child by the priest who would become Cardinal Theodore McCarrick but that the Vatican did nothing — claims he also made in a lawsuit this summer in New York.

By Associated Press

Clergy sex abuse lawsuits taking advantage of new law

Dec 3, 2019

Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a teenage boy in the 1990s when he was leader of the Archdiocese of Newark, according to a lawsuit filed under a newly enacted New Jersey law that gives accusers more time to make legal claims.

By Associated Press

Brooklyn bishop tapped to head probe into troubled Buffalo diocese

Oct 3, 2019

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn has been appointed by the Vatican to conduct an investigation of the troubled Buffalo diocese in New York, where Bishop Richard Malone faces accusations of covering up sexual abuse by priests.

By John L. Allen Jr.