VICTORIA (KS)
Associated Press via the Toronto Star
September 29, 2018
The friary in remote western Kansas that is now home to a disgraced former U.S. cardinal removed from ministry by Pope Francis over allegations of sexual abuse is just one block from an elementary school.
The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., confirmed in a statement Friday that ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick is living at St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, a rural town of about 1,200 that lies more than 400 kilometres west of Kansas City. The Friary is within a block of Victoria Elementary School.
News of McCarrick’s living arrangement took school officials by surprise, the Kansas City Star reported .
“I was never made aware of it until I found out through social media” on Friday, Victoria Elementary Principal Kent Michel said.
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