DENVER (CO)
Catholic News Agency
Jan 7, 2020
By JD Flynn and Ed Condon
The disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has moved from the Kansas friary where he had been living since 2018.
A spokesman for the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Conrad told CNA Jan. 7 that McCarrick left St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kansas, just days ago.
He has moved to a residential community of priests who have been removed from ministry, senior Church officials told CNA.
The former cardinal made the decision to leave the Kansas friary himself over the Christmas period, sources say, adding that his continued presence in the friary had become a strain on the Franciscan community that was hosting him.
McCarrick moved to the friary shortly after he was accused in 2018 of sexually abusing minors, seminarians, and young priests.
McCarrick’s new location remains undisclosed. Sources told CNA that the former cardinal arranged his new accommodation for himself, adding that the residence to which he has moved is “rather secluded and away from public attention.”
“McCarrick remains a guest at his new accommodation, but he is funding his own stay and is there by his own choice – no one can make him stay if he does not wish to,” a Church official told CNA.
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