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  "I Trusted in the System"

Chicago Tribune

August 16, 2008

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cardinal-mccormack-boxaug17,0,3610651.story

In the deposition, Cardinal Francis George explained why he did not more quickly remove Daniel McCormack, a former priest at St. Agatha Church on the West Side:

"I had the usual conduits of information that I relied on. I ask myself now why I did not more aggressively pursue it. . . . I trusted in the system that I thought had served us well and I'm sorry that I did."

 
 

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