KANSAS CITY (MO)
National Catholic Reporter
November 9, 2020
By Joshua J. McElwee
Rome – Theodore McCarrick had a nearly six-decade-long career as a priest, bishop and cardinal before revelations about his sexual abuse of young men led to his removal from the priesthood in 2019.
To help prepare for the expected Nov. 10 release of the Vatican’s report on how the disgraced ex-cardinal was able to rise through the ranks of the American hierarchy, NCR has prepared the following timeline of some of the major events in McCarrick’s career.
May 31, 1958:
Theodore McCarrick is ordained a priest by New York Cardinal Francis Spellman.
1965-69:
McCarrick serves as the president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He is made a monsignor by Pope Paul VI in 1965.
1969-71:
Spellman recalls McCarrick back to New York, where the young monsignor serves first as an associate secretary of education for the archdiocese, and then as the cardinal’s personal secretary.
About 1971 through about 1980:
During this period, James Grein alleges that McCarrick repeatedly abused him while Grein was in his teenage years. In a July 19, 2018 New York Times report, Grein said he and McCarrick would go on trips and spend nights in hotel rooms together, where McCarrick would touch Grein sexually.
May 1977:
Pope Paul VI appoints McCarrick as the titular bishop of Rusibisir and an auxiliary bishop of New York.
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