Nine Months after Ted Mccarrick Sex-abuse Crisis Explodes, the New Yorker Gives It Some Ink

By Julia Duin
Get Religion blog
April 10, 2019

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2019/4/10Nine%20months%20after%20Ted%20McCarrick%20sex-abuse%20crisis%20explodes,%20The%20New%20Yorker%20gives%20it%20some%20ink

It’s been more than nine months since the explosive news about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick hit and only now has The New Yorker done a definitive piece on it all.

We at GetReligion felt that McCarrick’s fall from grace was last year’s top religion story, along with the culpability of the Catholic Church’s highest officials in knowing about the cardinal’s sexual predilections for other men. They did nothing about it until finally it was revealed that he’d gone after boys as well.

While reporters all over the country were going into overdrive all summer reporting on l’affaire McCarrick and related stories, The New Yorker team did nothing. I still have an August 1 email to one of the editors there offering my services on that subject. Usually they’re atop the newest trend in seconds, but there was this strange silence –- and no response to my email -– on this story.

As time went on, there was a mention here and there, like this short news piece about Pope Francis that mentioned McCarrick in passing. It was written by James Carroll, a prolific author and a former Catholic seminarian.

Otherwise, radio silence on this blockbuster.