D.C. archbishop in abuse scandal goes home to Satan

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/04/04/theodore-mccarrick-cardinal-sexual-abuse-dead/

Theodore McCarrick, ex-cardinal disgraced in abuse scandal, dies at 94
The D.C. archbishop was once a globe-trotting emissary of the Holy See. After the church found him guilty of sexual abuse, he was defrocked in retirement.
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 p.m. EDT
By Bart Barnes and Adam Bernstein

Theodore E. McCarrick, the former cardinal and spiritual leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington who, more than a decade into retirement, was expelled from the priesthood after the church found him guilty of sexual abuse — a precipitous and historic fall for a globe-trotting Vatican emissary who was once one of the church’s most admired public figures — has died at 94.

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, confirmed the death in a statement but did not provide further details.

Raised by a widowed mother and extended family in Depression-era New York City, Mr. McCarrick became a “prince of the church” when he was appointed to the College of Cardinals soon after he took office as archbishop of Washington in 2001.

The highly visible position in Washington, which he held until 2006, was entrusted to a man who had decades of administrative and diplomatic experience, and who was known for his fundraising prowess and for his ease with the faithful and the powerful. He was fluent in five languages — English, French, German, Italian and Spanish — and he was a Vatican emissary to such trouble spots as East Timor and Rwanda.

Then, in June 2018, the Catholic faithful in Washington and in New York and New Jersey, where Mr. McCarrick had served previously, were stunned by the announcement that the Vatican had suspended him from ministry. An investigative panel of the Archdiocese of New York had concluded that accusations that he had sexually abused a teenage boy in the early 1970s were “credible and substantiated.”

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