Homosexual Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 94, died on April 3. Raised by a
widowed mother and extended family in depression-era New York City, he
had a devastating impact on the Catholic Church.
He rose through
the episcopal ranks, becoming Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, in 1981,
Archbishop of Newark in 1986, and Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and
Cardinal in 2001.
Before appointing him to Washington, John Paul II received a dossier accusing McCarrick of homosexuality.
During
McCarrick's years as archbishop in Washington, WashingtonPost.com
described him as "charming, outgoing and disarmingly impish". He
projected a low-key and self-effacing persona.
He was known for his fundraising prowess and for his ease with the faithful and the powerful.
Fluent
in five languages - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - he
was a Vatican emissary to such trouble spots as East Timor and Rwanda.
Every
liberal [= anti-Catholic] bishop in the United States is directly
connected to him. The most notorious names are the Cardinals Cupich
(Chicago) and McElroy (Washington).
In June 2018, the Archdiocese
of New York announced that allegations that McCarrick molested an
underage altar boy decades ago had been deemed "credible and
substantiated."
In February 2019, a church investigation
concluded that he had committed "crimes against the sixth commandment
with adults and children".
McCarrick did never accepted
responsibility. He had "absolutely no recollection of this reported
abuse" and maintained his "innocence."
Other allegations followed, mostly about luring seminarians into homosexuality.
In recent years, McCarrick had lived in Dittmer, Missouri.
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