WASHINGTON (DC)
GetReligion
June 21, 2018
By Julia Duin
On Election Day 2008, I was not following the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency.
Instead, I was meeting up with a priest. At the time, I was religion editor for the Washington Times.
The documents he gave me were sensational. At first I thought it was about a priest who’d been forced out of the priesthood because he’d been caught fondling two teen-aged boys. Then I read why the priest had done this. In layman’s terms: He said he was an emotional and spiritual mess after having been sexually assaulted in 1987 by none less than then-Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
Now, perhaps many of you have read yesterday’s news about McCarrick, who went on to become cardinal for the see of Washington, D.C., a most prestigious post. This UPI story describes the bare-bones of the matter:
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