Sexual Abuse Crisis

The Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church

RELEASED TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020

THE McCARRICK REPORT: 40 YEARS OF FACTS LAID BARE

Summary Report by Austen Ivereigh

Where Peter Is
(see website)

The Stories of the Survivors
November 12, 2020
by Melinda Ribnek

"These have been a heavy few days For Catholics."

"Journalists and commentators are working to review the McCarrick report and decipher who is accountable, who has been lying, and who has manipulated the scandal to their own advantage. I want these answers as well - they need to be given and people need to be held to account. But as I make my way through the 449-page report, and seeing the emerging Catholic social media responses, I am overwhelmed by a need to hear the voices of the survivors - not just the stories of those who wronged them."

Melinda Ribnek, (Website, Where Peter Is)

Vigano's Letter Implicates
John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Himself
in the McCarrick Cover-up

by John R. Connolly

Among the interesting things revealed in Vigano’s letter is the fact the he admits that Rome knew about McCarrick’s sexual transgressions against seminarians and priests as early as 2000. However, the implications of this revelation seem to escape him. In the letter he fails to mention that it was John Paul II who appointed McCarrick Archbishop of Washington in 2001 and made him a cardinal later in that same year, even after the Vatican was aware of McCarrick’s transgressions. At this very time, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later to become Benedict XVI, was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and, therefore, also had to have known of McCarrick’s transgressions as early as 2000. Vigano admits in the letter that he also knew about the allegations against McCarrick as early as 2000.