Tag: Theodore McCarrick

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Defrocked US cardinal paid for silence from Vatican officials, Washington Post reports

  

  A US cardinal gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to powerful Catholic clerics including two popes while facing accusations of sexual harassment, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Vatican infighting surfaces and questions an “embittered” Pope

  

  Pope Francis has no intention of stepping down as he fights accusations that he protected a former archbishop accused of sexual abuse, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing “close associates” of the pope.

• Monday, August 27th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Ex Vatican ambassador allegedly exposes more cover-ups at the Holy See

  

  The Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States accused senior Vatican officials of knowing as early as 2000 that the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, regularly invited seminarians into his bed but was made a cardinal regardless.