NEW YORK (NY)
Catholic News Service via Crux
July 16, 2018
A front-page New York Times article published July 16 detailed the alleged abuse of two seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey by then-Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick in the 1980s that resulted in settlements to each man.
For one of the seminarians, the alleged abuse continued after he had been ordained to the priesthood.
The 3,100-word article, written by Laurie Goodstein and Sharon Otterman, said the bishop would invite seminarians to spend time with him on overnight trips away from their seminary, and then, in giving bedroom assignments, direct one of them to his bedroom, where there was just one bed.
The abuse of these two men, according to an interview with one of the former priests by the Times and the examination of the second man’s file by the newspaper on the condition that he – now also a former priest – not be named, took place in the 1980s, while McCarrick served as first Bishop of Metuchen and then as Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey.
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