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Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Archbishop emeritus of Washington
McCarrick speaking at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
See	Washington
Appointed	November 21, 2000
Installed	January 3, 2001
Term ended	May 16, 2006
Predecessor	James Aloysius Hickey
Successor	Donald Wuerl
Orders
Ordination	May 31, 1958 by Francis Spellman
Consecration	June 29, 1977 by Terence Cooke
Created cardinal	February 21, 2001 by Pope John Paul II (Removed by Pope Francis July 28, 2018)
Personal details
Birth name	Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Born	(1930-07-07) July 7, 1930 (age 88) New York City
Previous post	Cardinal priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo (2001–2018) Ecclesiastical Superior of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1998–2000) Archbishop of Newark (1986–2000) Bishop of Metuchen (1981–1986) Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1977–1981)
Motto	Come Lord Jesus

Styles of Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Grace
Religious style	Archbishop

Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church and a former cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006 and was elevated to the cardinalate in February 2001. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals on July 28, 2018, after a series of sexual misconduct allegations.^[1]

Early life and education

An only child, McCarrick was born in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick.^[2] His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old,^[3] and his mother then worked at an automobile parts factory in the Bronx.^[4] As a child, McCarrick served as an altar boy at the Church of the Incarnation in Washington Heights.^[4]

After attending Jesuit Fordham Preparatory School, he studied in Switzerland for a year before returning to the United States and attending Fordham University.^[5]

McCarrick later entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy (1954) and a Master of Arts in theology (1958).^[2]

McCarrick is a polyglot, speaking five languages.^[6][7]

Priesthood

McCarrick was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, on May 31, 1958.^[8] From 1958 to 1963, he furthered his studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., earning a Ph.D. in sociology. He then served as an assistant chaplain at the Catholic University, becoming dean of students and director of development.^[2]

Cardinal McCarrick and Admiral William Fallon, September 16, 2001 in Washington, D.C.

McCarrick served as president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1969, and was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness in 1965.^[2] In 1969, Cardinal Terence Cooke recalled McCarrick to New York. McCarrick was an associate secretary for education and an assistant priest at Blessed Sacrament parish from 1969 to 1971.^[2] He was Cooke's secretary from 1971 to 1977.^[2][9] He was later accused of sexually abusing a minor during this period.^[10]

Episcopal career

Auxiliary bishop of New York

In May 1977, McCarrick was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Titular Bishop of Rusibisir by Pope Paul VI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 29 from Cardinal Cooke, with Archbishop John Maguire and Bishop Patrick Ahern serving as co-consecrators. He selected as his episcopal motto: "Come Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22:20).^[8]

As an auxiliary to Cardinal Cooke, he served as vicar of East Manhattan and the Harlems.^[2]

Bishop of Metuchen

McCarrick was later named the founding Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, on November 19, 1981. He was installed at St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral on January 31, 1982. During his tenure, McCarrick erected new parishes in Perth Amboy, Califon, Skillman, Old Bridge, and Three Bridges.^[11] He also oversaw the development of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Bishop's Annual Appeal, and ministries for blacks and Hispanics, pro-life activities, and the disabled.^[11]

Archbishop of Newark

On May 30, 1986, McCarrick was appointed the fourth Archbishop of Newark. He succeeded Peter Leo Gerety, and was installed at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on the following July 25. During his tenure, he established the Office of Evangelization, ministries for Hispanics and victims of HIV, and a drug prevention program.^[12] He also promoted vocations, and ordained a total of 200 priests for the Archdiocese.^[4]

Cardinal McCarrick in June 2006

McCarrick became known as an advocate for social justice, once saying, "[T]he Church cannot be authentic unless it takes care of the poor, the newcomers, the needy".^[4] During the 1980s, he served as an official observer to the Helsinki Commission and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, serving at the behest of the State Department.^[12] In 1988, he participated in an interfaith meeting with Fidel Castro to promote religious freedom in Cuba, the first meeting of its kind subsequent to the fall of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. McCarrick, as a representative of Irish immigrant families, was chosen to be placed in the Ellis Island Hall of Fame on December 8, 1990.^[12]

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he served as chairman of the Committee on Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe from 1992 to 1997. In this capacity, he visited such countries as Yugoslavia, the Baltics, and Kazakhstan. He was twice elected to head the USCCB's Committee on Migration, and once asked the Congress "to recognize and support the important task of nurturing new citizens so that they may begin to play a full role in the future of this nation."^[12] He later became a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants.

He was elected chairman of the Bishops' Committee on International Policy in 1996. His other visits included Bosnia (which he described as "reminiscent of the Holocaust"), China, Poland, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, and Switzerland.^[4][12] Joined by Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, he announced an initiative in 1997 to assure that Catholic school uniforms in his Archdiocese would not be manufactured in sweatshops.^[13]

In 1998, in addition to his duties as Archbishop, McCarrick was designated as superior of the Roman Catholic Mission sui iuris of the Turks and Caicos Islands; he delegated this mission to priests of the Neocatechumenal Way.^[14]

Archbishop of Washington, D.C.

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush welcome outgoing Archbishop of Washington McCarrick, left, the incoming Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl, far right, and Papal Nuncio Pietro Sambi to the White House.

Pope John Paul II appointed McCarrick Archbishop of Washington in November 2000.^[15] McCarrick was formally installed as the fifth archbishop of Washington at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on January 3, 2001.^[16] On February 21, 2001, John Paul made him a cardinal,^[17][18] assigning him as cardinal priest to the titular church of Ss. Nerei e Achilleo. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.^[19]

In June 2004, McCarrick was accused by conservative Catholics of intentionally misreading a document from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, recommending that Catholic politicians who supported abortion be denied the Eucharist. McCarrick led a successful push to have the USCCB allow the bishops of individual dioceses to make a determination on who was or was not eligible to receive the sacrament rather than forbid all pro-abortion American politicians from doing so. Fr. John Neuhaus said that "The bishops I have talked to have no doubt that [McCarrick’s] presentation did not accurately represent the communication from Cardinal Ratzinger."^[20]

Retirement as archbishop

On May 16, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted Cardinal McCarrick's resignation as Archbishop of Washington, D.C., upon the latter's reaching the customary age limit of 75, and appointed Donald Wuerl, Bishop of Pittsburgh, as the 6th Archbishop of Washington, DC. From May 16, 2006, until Wuerl's installation on June 22, 2006, McCarrick served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Washington, an interim post.^[21]

After his retirement, McCarrick resided for some time at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in the Archdiocese of Washington. He subsequently moved to the grounds of the provincial headquarters of the Institute of the Incarnate Word in Chillum, Maryland, in a building on a complex that included a seminary.^[22]

McCarrick was named a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 2007.^[23]

In 2009, McCarrick spoke at the graveside service of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery and read from a letter Kennedy had written to Pope Benedict XVI.^[24]

Within the Church, McCarrick "was always seen as a moderate, centrist presence in the hierarchy, a telegenic pastor who could present the welcoming face of the church, no matter what the circumstances."^[25] The Religion News Service identified him in 2014 as "one of a number of senior churchmen who were more or less put out to pasture during the eight-year pontificate of Benedict XVI," adding that after the election of Pope Francis he found himself put "back in the mix."^[25] During his retirement, McCarrick pressed House Speaker John Boehner to take up immigration reform. McCarrick spent a significant amount of time traveling and engaging in inter-religious dialogue. In April 2014, at the request of the U.S. State Department, McCarrick (along with a Muslim and an Evangelical cleric) made a trip to the Central African Republic, a country suffering from ethnic and interreligious violence.^[25] In May 2014, he traveled with Pope Francis to the Holy Land.^[25] McCarrick also traveled to Armenia to discuss Syria with Eastern Orthodox clerics, the Philippines to visit typhoon victims, China for discussions on religious freedom, Iran for talks on nuclear proliferation,^[25] and served as a Vatican intermediary for the U.S.-Cuba talks.^[26]

Accusations of sexual abuse and removal from public ministry

Sexual advances toward seminarians

A news report by Catholic News Agency, based on interviews with six unnamed priests of the Archdiocese of Newark, described Cardinal McCarrick's actions while Archbishop of Newark. According to this report, when McCarrick would visit the seminary in the Newark diocese, he "would often place his hand on seminarians while talking with them, or on their thighs while seated near them." One of the priests stated that McCarrick "had a type: tall, slim, intelligent - but no smokers." He stated that McCarrick would invite young men to stay at his house on the shore, or to spend the night in the cathedral rectory in central Newark.^[27] In response to the story, the Archdiocese of Newark stated that neither the six anonymous priests interviewed for the story, nor anyone else, "has ever spoken to [current Newark Archbishop] Cardinal Tobin about a 'gay sub-culture' in the Archdiocese of Newark."^[27]

Michael Reading, who was ordained a priest by McCarrick, stated that he had heard stories about McCarrick's sexual advances toward seminarians when he himself was a seminarian in Newark in 1986.^[28]

2005 and 2007 financial settlements

Between 2005 and 2007, the Diocese of Metuchen and the Archdiocese of Newark paid financial settlements to two priests who had accused McCarrick of abuse.^[29][30] These settlements totalled $180,000.^[31] $80,000 was paid to abuse victim Robert Ciolek;^[32] a portion of this amount was paid by the Archdiocese of Newark (where McCarrick had been archbishop from 1986 to 2001) and was authorized by Newark archbishop John J. Myers.^[32] Another portion of this amount was paid by the Diocese of Trenton; however, this diocese stated in 2018 that the Ciolek settlement did not concern abuse by McCarrick.^[32] In addition, $100,000 was paid in 2006 to an abuse victim by the Diocese of Metuchen (where McCarrick had been bishop from 1981 to 1986).^[32] The Diocese of Metuchen paid $53,333.34 for two other sex-abuse complaints (it is unclear whether one of these was the Ciolek settlement); these payments were authorized by Metuchen bishop Paul G. Bootkoski, who also reported the offenses to law enforcement.^[32]

According to Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, nobody from these dioceses informed him of these settlements, even after the retired McCarrick began living on the grounds of a seminary in the Archdiocese of Washington.^[29][22]

In 2010, clerical abuse expert Richard Sipe published excerpts from the 2005 and 2007 settlement documents.^[33]

Warnings about McCarrick's conduct

There have been questions about how much senior Catholic officials might have known about McCarrick's actions.^[34] After McCarrick was removed from active ministry on June 20, 2018, numerous bishops facing heavy pressure denied any prior knowledge of McCarrick's misconduct. These denials have been called into question by some.^[35]

Father Boniface Ramsey, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church Yorkville in New York City, had repeatedly issued warnings to Church officials regarding abuse throughout his career. Ramsey stated that he spoke to Thomas C. Kelly, Archbishop of Louisville, about McCarrick's behavior in 1993.^[28] In 2000, Ramsey wrote to the papal nuncio Gabriel Montalvo Higuera, and warned Pope John Paul II about making McCarrick Archbishop of Washington.^[36][37][28] On October 11, 2006, Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the former Vatican substitute for general affairs and current Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, wrote to Ramsey and stated that Montalvo Higuera had told him about Ramsey's allegations against McCarrick.^[38] Ramsey wrote to Cardinal Seán O'Malley in 2015.^[36][37][39] O'Malley stated that he never saw the letter, and that it had been handled "at the staff level."^[39] Ramsey said that he tried to speak with Cardinal Edward Egan of New York about McCarrick's history, but that Egan "didn't want to hear it."^[37]

Documents obtained by The New York Times reveal that in 1994 a priest wrote a letter to Bishop Edward T. Hughes, McCarrick's successor as bishop of Metuchen, stating that McCarrick had inappropriately touched him.^[36] Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan said that during his time as papal nuncio to the United States in 1994, prior to Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States in 1995, he received a phone call from a woman who was concerned that there would be a "media scandal if the Pope goes to Newark" because of "voices (rumors) about McCarrick’s behavior with seminarians." Cacciavillan then told Cardinal John O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, about the woman's call. O'Connor supposedly conducted an "investigation, an inquiry" and eventually told Caccavillan that "there was no obstacle to the visit of the Pope to Newark." Caccavillan stated that he did not attempt to contact the Vatican.^[40]

Richard Sipe stated that he wrote a letter to Benedict XVI in 2008 saying that McCarrick's activities "had been widely known for several decades."^[36] Sipe delivered a letter to Bishop Robert W. McElroy in 2016 concerning sexual misconduct by McCarrick. McElroy said that nothing could be done because of an inability to determine whether the allegations were credible.^[41]

One journalist claims that in a conversation with Joseph W. Tobin, Tobin said that around the time he became Archbishop of Newark in 2016, he heard "rumors" about McCarrick having slept with seminarians, but chose not to believe them, stating that at the time they seemed too "incredulous" to be true.^[42] Despite repeated denials, Wuerl, McCarrick's successor as Archbishop of Washington, has been widely suspected of knowing about McCarrick's conduct and failing to take action against him. Even before this was proven to be true, one writer went so far as to claim that if his denials are true, Wuerl "is the Church's most oblivious cleric."^[43]

On August 29, Bishop Steven J. Lopes criticized his fellow bishops and questioned the truthfulness of those claiming to have been ignorant of McCarrick's actions. "I’ll tell you what response I think is not good enough. It’s the parade of cardinals and bishops who have rushed to the television cameras clutching their pectoral crosses, saying, ‘I knew nothing.' I don’t believe it, and I am one of them. I don’t believe it." He continued, "I was a seminarian when Theodore McCarrick was named archbishop of Newark. And he would visit the seminary often, and we all knew."^[35]

In 2012, The New York Times Magazine scheduled but never published a story detailing McCarrick's abuse of adult seminarians, based on court documents of the legal settlements between McCarrick and former seminarians, and an interview with one of the victims.^[44][45]

On August 16, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asked Pope Francis to initiate an investigation led by members of both the clergy and the laity into who knew about McCarrick's activities and how he was able to rise in to a high position in the Church despite the allegations against him. On September 20, after a month with no formal response from the Pope, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York commented that he was getting "a little bit impatient."^[46]

On January 10, 2019, The Washington Post published a story stating that Wuerl, despite his past denials, was aware of allegations against McCarrick in 2004 and reported them to the Vatican. Robert Ciolek, a former priest who reached a settlement in 2005 after accusing several Church officials including McCarrick of sexual misconduct, told the Post that he recently learned that the Diocese of Pittsburgh has a file that shows that Wuerl was aware of his allegations against McCarrick. The file includes documentation that Wuerl, who was bishop of Pittsburgh at the time, shared the information with then-Vatican ambassador Gabriel Montalvo. Both the Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Archdiocese of Washington acknowledged that Wuerl knew about and reported Ciolek's allegation to the Vatican.^[47]

Viganò allegations

On August 25, 2018 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, released an 11-page letter describing a series of warnings to the Vatican regarding McCarrick.^[48] Viganò stated that Montalvo, then nuncio to the United States, had informed the Vatican in 2000 of McCarrick's "gravely immoral behaviour with seminarians and priests." Subsequently, Pietro Sambi (nuncio from 2005 to 2011) had informed the Vatican again. In 2006, Viganò -- then working at the Vatican -- wrote his own memo regarding McCarrick. However, he says, nothing was done to stop McCarrick.^[48]

In 2008, Viganò says he wrote a second memo, including material from Sipe.^[48] As a result, in 2009 or 2010 Pope Benedict XVI allegedly placed severe restrictions on McCarrick's movements and public ministry, not allowing him to travel beyond the grounds of the seminary where he was living and not permitting him to say Mass in public.^[48] However, according to Viganò, Pope Francis subsequently removed these sanctions and made McCarrick "his trusted counselor", even though Francis "knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator. He knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end."^[48] It was quickly noted that during the time McCarrick was allegedly under sanction, he maintained a "robust public presence" full of international travel, public masses, speeches, and the acceptance of awards.^[49] He even joined with other bishops to present Pope Benedict a birthday cake.^[50] Viganò's credibility was also called into question due to public spats with the Pope over the enforcement of Catholic morality.^[51] He also showed staunch disapproval of the resignation of St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Neinstedt, which occurred during Pope Francis' time in power, and reportedly attempted to end the sex abuse investigation which led to Neinstedt's departure.^[52][51] Viganò's defenders subsequently suggested that these restrictions might not have been formal sanctions but rather informal requests that were loosely enforced.^[53][54] Viganò released documentation attempting to prove that he did not obstruct the investigation into Neinstedt.^[55]

Viganò also claimed that McCarrick "orchestrated" the appointments of Blase Cupich as Archbishop of Chicago and Joseph Tobin as Archbishop of Newark.^[48] Journalists at the time of the appointments of both Cupich and Tobin reported that McCarrick had played the decisive role in recommending both.^[56] Viganò stated that he discussed McCarrick's conduct and the penalties surrounding it with McCarrick's successor as Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. After the report was released, Wuerl's spokesperson denied that he was aware of any misconduct by McCarrick.^[57] In the letter containing these allegations, Viganò called on Francis and all others who covered up McCarrick's conduct to resign.^[48]

Asked to respond to Viganò's allegations the following day, Pope Francis replied that reporters should "do your jobs" and make conclusions themselves based on the testimony presented.^[58] Francis confirmed that he had read Viganò's statement, and then told the journalist who had asked the question, "You read the statement attentively, and you make your own judgment. I will not say a single word about this.... I believe the statement speaks for itself, and you have enough journalistic capacity to reach the conclusions."^[58]

According to veteran Vatican journalist John Allen, the "clear suggestion" from Francis was that "if they did so, the charges would crumble under their own weight."^[59] On August 28, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki said, in reference to Francis' statment, "Frankly, but with all due respect, that response is not adequate." He called on all Vatican officials, including Francis, to "make public the pertinent files indicating who knew what and when...and provide the accountability that the Holy Father has promised."^[60]

Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., confirmed that Viganò had told "the truth" but declined to offer additional comment. In his letter, Viganò had cited Lantheaume as the one who told him about the alleged "stormy" encounter between McCarrick and Sambi in which Sambi informed McCarrick of the sanctions being placed on him.^[61]

The New York Times stated that Viganò's letter contained "unsubstantiated allegations and personal attacks", and described it as "an extraordinary public declaration of war against Francis' papacy at perhaps its most vulnerable moment."^[50] A number of bishops sharply criticized the letter^[62][63] while others called for an investigation.^[64][65]

The McCarrick case and Viganò allegations, happening at about the same time as the conclusion of the grand jury investigation of Catholic Church sexual abuse in Pennsylvania, which alleged systematic cover-up of clergy sex abuse by bishops in Pennsylvania over decades, produced what has variously been described as a "Catholic insurgency" or "Catholic civil war." Significant numbers of lay Catholics have called on bishops implicated in alleged cover-ups as well as Pope Francis to resign. The problem has also opened up ideological divisions within the Church. Large numbers of conservatives, many of whom have long disliked Pope Francis, have called on him and certain bishops to resign following the Viganò letter and other revelations, while liberals, most of whom have been supportive of Francis's papacy in the past, have more commonly criticized the letter and defended Francis.^[66][67]

Viganò has subsequently released two follow-up letters. In these letters, he defends himself from critics, adds more details to his claims, and calls on more Church leaders to speak out.^[68][69][68] After the publication of the second letter, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who had been named by Viganò in that letter as the person who allegedly told him about the sanctions, released a public response strongly chastising Viganò, while confirming that informal sanctions were placed on McCarrick and that, as Viganò said, he was the one who told Viganò about them. This contradicts Viganò's statement that the sanctions were official but supports the claim that some restrictions were placed on McCarrick during Benedict XVI's papacy.^[70][68]

Removal from ministry and resignation as cardinal

On June 20, 2018, Cardinal McCarrick was removed from public ministry by the Holy See after a review board of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York found an allegation "credible and substantiated" that he had sexually abused a 16-year-old altar boy while a priest in New York.^[71] Patrick Noaker, the attorney for the anonymous complainant, alleged two incidents at St. Patrick's Cathedral, one in 1971 and the other in 1972.^[72] Noaker stated that when measuring the teen for a cassock, McCarrick "unzipped [the boy's] pants and put his hands in the boy's pants."^[73]

McCarrick stated that he was innocent of these charges: "I have absolutely no recollection of this reported abuse, and believe in my innocence." He also stated, "In obedience I accept the decision of The Holy See, that I no longer exercise any public ministry."^[73][74] Also on June 20, 2018, Tobin revealed that during McCarrick's ministry in New Jersey, there had been accusations of sexual misconduct with three adults, and that two of the allegations had resulted in confidential financial settlements with the complainants.^[75][76]

On July 5, Fordham University rescinded an honorary degree and other honors it had granted Cardinal McCarrick.^[77][78]The Catholic University of America, where McCarrick earned two degrees and served in a variety of spiritual and administrative positions, revoked the honorary degree it awarded him in 2006.^[79]

On July 16, 2018 The New York Times published a front-page article describing McCarrick's abuse of adult seminarians.^[36][80] On July 19, The New York Times published an article based on the story of a man named James, whose last name was withheld. A New Jersey man whose uncle had known McCarrick since high school, James alleged that McCarrick had sexually abused him beginning at age 11. James had been the first boy McCarrick had ever baptized. James claimed that McCarrick had exposed himself to him when he was 11 and had sexually touched him beginning when he was 13. He explained that he tried to tell his father a couple of years later but was not believed.^[81][82] On November 13, James revealed himself as James Grein, and gave a public speech at the 'Silence Stops Now Rally" in Baltimore, where he called on Catholics to "reform and reclaim the Church." Speaking about alleged mishandling of allegations by Catholic bishops, he said, "Our bishops must know that the jig is up."^[83]

On July 27, 2018, Pope Francis ordered McCarrick to observe "a life of prayer and penance in seclusion" and accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals.^[84] McCarrick became the first person to resign from the College of Cardinals since French Cardinal Louis Billot resigned in 1927 when he refused an order to withdraw his support of Action Française, a monarchist movement that Pope Pius XI had condemned.^[85] He is also the first cardinal to resign following allegations of sexual abuse.^[30] The Pope took this action before the accusations were investigated by church officials, the first time an order of penance and prayer has been issued before a church trial.^[86] McCarrick was not laicized (removed from the priesthood) pending the completion of a canonical trial.^[30] The Vatican announced on July 28, 2018, that Pope Francis had ordered Archbishop McCarrick (as he now was) to obey an "obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him" and also observe "a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial."^[87]

On January 5, 2019, it was reported that the Vatican was investigating a third allegation of sexual misconduct by McCarrick against a minor. The individual was said to have reported his allegations three months previously. He is now in his 40s, and is said to have been connected to McCarrick through family friends. The allegation is being investigated by the Archdiocese of New York.^[88]

Council of Cardinals meeting

On September 10, 2018, the Council of Cardinals- or C9- began a three day meeting to discuss, in part, how to respond to Ramsey's 2006 letter.^[89] The C9 issued a joint statement stating the Holy See "is working on formulating potential and necessary clarifications."^[89]

Vatican trial and sentence

On September 28, 2018, it was announced that McCarrick was living at the St. Fidelis Capuchin Friary in
Victoria, Kansas.^[90][91] Pope Francis had sentenced McCarrick to serve a life of prayer and penance at this location pending the completion of a canonical process against him. He remains prohibited from engaging in any public ministry. The Diocese of Salina, where the friary is located, would not be incurring any of the costs for housing McCarrick.^[91]

Vatican archives review

On October 6, it was announced that Pope Francis had authorized the Vatican archives to conduct a "thorough study" to answer how McCarrick managed to rise in the Vatican ranks despite reports that he had slept with not only seminarians, but also young priests. The statement did not address the allegations made by Archbishop Viganò.^[92]

Honorary degrees

Archbishop McCarrick was awarded at least nine honorary degrees, many of which have now been revoked or are currently under consideration for revocation.^[93]

Location	Date	School	Degree
New Jersey	1987	Saint Peter's University	Doctorate [94]
New Jersey	1994	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey	Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.)
New York	2002	Fordham University	Doctorate (rescinded)[77]
District of Columbia	2004	Georgetown University	D.H.L. [95]
District of Columbia	May 13, 2006	Catholic University of America	D.H.L. (rescinded) [96]
New York	2007	Siena College	Doctorate of Sacred Theology (rescinded)[97]
Indiana	May 18, 2008	University of Notre Dame	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [98][99]
Oregon	2008	University of Portland	Doctorate (rescinded) [100][101]
New York	May 2011	St. Bonaventure University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) (Rescinded) [102]
New York	October 12, 2012	College of New Rochelle	Doctorate (rescinded) [103]

See also

• Hans Hermann Groër


• Keith O'Brien


• Cardinal McCarrick High School

References

External links

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  "McCarrick Card. Theodore Edgar". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on September 4, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
  


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  Retiring Archbishop Gives Farewell Homily Washington Post, June 19, 2006, by Candace Rondeaux.