UNITED STATES
La Croix International
November 15, 2020
By Peter Steinfels
The striking conclusions and the remaining questions
The Vatican has issued its report on the shocking case of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Two years in the making, it is 449 pages long, names names, gives dates, and cites extensive documentation and more than ninety interviews, all anchored with 1,410 footnotes.
Will it bring closure to questions about how the now-defrocked prelate could rise to the heights of the hierarchy despite rumors of sexual activity with adults and repeated machinations to bed seminarians?
Anyone who believes that must inhabit an alternative universe.
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