[Opinion] Time for a reckoning: Church must confront, change old boys’ network exposed in Vatican’s McCarrick report

NEW JERSEY
NorthJersey.com

December 6, 2020

By Rev. Alexander Santora

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/12/time-for-a-reckoning-church-must-confront-change-old-boys-network-exposed-in-vaticans-mccarrick-report-faith-matters.html

The report refers to her simply as “Mother 1.”

A Manhattan woman with a large brood of mostly boys and an Irish husband, she had become suspicious of then-New York Monsignor Theodore McCarrick, who snaked his way into her family and had her children call him “Uncle Ted.’’

Her husband thought it an honor to have a clergyman take an interest in his children. Mother 1, not so.

Her antennae went up when she learned McCarrick gave her sons alcohol when he took them on trips. He continued to visit even after moving to New Jersey, and, one day, she came home to find McCarrick sitting on the couch with a son on either side of him and a hand on the thigh of each.

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