CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2020 / 03:20 am
The McCarrick Report showed that St. John Paul II was deceived about the disgraced ex-cardinal, the president of the Polish bishops' conference said Friday.
In a Nov. 13 statement, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki said: "Before McCarrick's nomination to Washington, the pope did not receive from the American bishops full and complete information about his moral behavior, and McCarrick himself lied -- in a letter of Aug. 6, 2000 -- that he had no sexual relations with anyone."
The archbishop of Poznań was referring to a section of the report, released Nov. 10, which said that John Paul II asked the apostolic nuncio to the United States in 2000 to contact four New Jersey bishops about whether McCarrick had behaved improperly with young adults.
The bishops confirmed that the then archbishop of Newark had shared a bed with young men, "but did not indicate with certainty that McCarrick had engaged in any sexual misconduct."