CNA Staff, Nov 5, 2020 / 14:52 pm
The Archbishop of New York said Thursday that a long-awaited Vatican report on the career of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick could be a "black eye" for the Church. The report is expected to be released next week.
The U.S. Church is "still waiting for the release of the so-called 'McCarrick Report' by the Holy See, detailing the damning story of former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick. That could be another black-eye for the Church," Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York wrote in a Nov. 5 post on his website.
"But, better that the story come out, in all its awful detail, to both bring some measure of peace to the victim-survivors, as well as serve as a lesson on how to prevent a similar recurrence in the future," Dolan added.
The report, which was initially expected to be released in December 2019, will come after a Vatican review of documents and witness accounts spanning McCarrick's 40-year episcopal career, after he was accused of serial sexual crimes related to minors and seminarians in 2018.