Action plan missing from McCarrick Report can be found Down Under

AUSTRALIA
Catholic Outlook

December 3, 2020

By Massimo Faggioli

The entire Church should take seriously the proposals for ecclesial reform coming from Catholics in Australia

The solution to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church hangs in the balance between these two questions: What happened? and What needs to happen?

The so-called “McCarrick Report“, which was compiled by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and published on November 10, is an example of unprecedented transparency under pressure.

It represents a fundamental step towards a better comprehension of what happened in the saga concerning Theodore McCarrick, the former cardinal-archbishop of Washington who was defrocked in 2019 for sexual abuse of minors.

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