The McCarrick Report: What to know

The McCarrick Report: What to know

CNA—On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the Vatican’s Secretariat of State will release a report on its two-year investigation into the career of ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who has been found canonically guilty of serial sexual abuse and misconduct, and was laicized in 2019. (Click here to read The McCarrick Report for yourself) Who is Theodore McCarrick? Theodore…

U.S. bishops react to McCarrick Laicization

U.S. bishops react to McCarrick Laicization

CNA—Bishops from across the United States have reacted to the news that Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty of sexual abuse and expelled from the clerical state. The disgraced former cardinal and archbishop of Washington and Newark was found guilty in a Vatican decision announced Saturday. A Vatican administrative penal process concluded that McCarrick had…

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McCarrick permanently stripped of ministry and clerical state

McCarrick permanently stripped of ministry and clerical state

CNA—The Archdiocese of Newark released a list of names of credibly accused clergy on Wednesday, including disgraced former archbishop of the diocese Theodore McCarrick. The archdiocese listed McCarrick as “permanently removed from ministry,” although a final verdict is still pending in his canonical process. On Feb. 13, all the Catholic dioceses of New Jersey released…