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He knew of sex abuse allegations on campus. Now he’s university president.

Politico

Seton Hall is a diocesan university within the Archdiocese of Newark, and the archbishop serves as president of the university’s Board of Regents and chair of the Board of Trustees. The memo also said Reilly dismissed a seminarian in 2012 who was an alleged victim of sexual abuse without investigating the incident or escalating the matter, a violation of university …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Vatican excommunicates conservative former ambassador to U.S., declares him guilty of schism

LA Times

Carlo Maria Vigano, shown in 2015, has been excommunicated by the Vatican. Although he once enjoyed support in the Vatican and U.S. church hierarchies, the Italian archbishop alienated many as he developed a fringe following while delving deeper into conspiracy theories on everything — from the coronavirus pandemic to what he called the “Great Reset” and Russia’s war on Ukraine. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Ex-Catholic Cardinal McCarrick, age 93, found unfit to stand trial on teen sex abuse charges

Associated Press

— The once-powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will not stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago, as a Massachusetts judge dismissed the case against the 93-year-old on Wednesday because both prosecutors and defense attorneys agree he is experiencing dementia. “There is no way they are going to get better.” A judge has ruled that …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Ex-Roman Catholic cardinal, now 92, is not competent to stand trial in sex abuse case, expert says

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged in Wisconsin with sex abuse

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church’s clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show. A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found …

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2 years, 2 months ago

UN, abuse survivor groups seek Vatican investigation of Belo

Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — The United Nations and advocacy groups for survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging Pope Francis to authorize a full investigation of Catholic Church archives on three continents to ascertain who knew what and when about sexual abuse by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the revered independence hero of East Timor. The Vatican’s sex abuse …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting

Associated Press

It was a frigid Sunday evening at the Catholic Newman Center in Salt Lake City when the priest warned parishioners who had gathered after Mass that their right to private confessions was in jeopardy. The Mormon church said in a written statement to the AP that a member who confesses child sex abuse “has come seeking an opportunity to reconcile …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Exxon escalates dispute with Russia over barred exit from giant oil project

Live Mint

Exxon Mobil Corp. has notified Russian officials it will sue the federal government unless Moscow allows the company to exit a major oil-and-gas project, according to people familiar with the matter. A Kremlin decree banning certain transactions through the end of the year has blocked Exxon since early August from transferring operatorship and selling its 30% stake in the Sakhalin-1 …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty in sex assault

Associated Press

— Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-powerful American prelate who was expelled from the priesthood for sexual abuse, pleaded not guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts nearly 50 years ago. Anne Barrett Doyle, co-founder of the online research database BishopAccountability.org, said McCarrick’s case marks a “new phase in the global …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity

Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes. The law doesn’t explicitly define which adults are covered, saying only an adult who “habitually has an imperfect use …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Alleging sex abuse, 4 sue Vatican over handling of McCarrick

The Hindu

Four accusers of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have filed a lawsuit against the Vatican, arguing it should be held liable for allowing the now-disgraced cleric to serve in multiple positions in New York and New Jersey when it knew of numerous allegations of sexual abuse against him. An internal Vatican report released last week found that bishops, cardinals and popes …

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4 years, 1 month ago

AP Analysis: 'Who am I to judge?' helps explain pope's view

The Independent

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4 years, 1 month ago

Vatican’s McCarrick report forces debate on power and abuse

Associated Press

ROME — The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable questions the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it’s going to do about current and future clergy who abuse their power to sexually abuse adults. “It does get down to this idea that somehow when someone turns 18, a) they’re no longer …

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4 years, 1 month ago

‘It’s crushing': Survivors react to McCarrick abuse report

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Men who have come forward with allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed disgust, frustration and outrage after an internal Vatican report outlined what was known about the clergyman’s behavior — and what was ignored. The report contained heartbreaking testimony about McCarrick’s inappropriate behavior, including from a woman identified only as “Mother 1” who told …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after two-year investigation finds Cardinal McCarrick guilty

The Independent

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4 years, 1 month ago

Vatican report reveals anonymous letters accusing McCarrick

Associated Press

The Vatican’s report on ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick revealed the previously unknown contents of six anonymous letters accusing him of pedophilia that were sent to U.S. church leaders in the early 1990s and later forwarded to the Holy See. The woman said she sent the letters to members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy “expressing her distress about McCarrick’s conduct with minors,” and …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Vatican faults others for McCarrick’s rise, spares Francis

Associated Press

ROME — A Vatican investigation into former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick found that bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed multiple reports of sexual misconduct and determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors’ handling of the predator until taking action when a former altar boy alleged abuse. The case created a credibility crisis for the church since the Vatican had …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Pope John Paul II Promoted Cleric After Learning About Sex Abuse Allegations

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING ROME — A Vatican investigation into former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports of sexual misconduct with seminarians, and determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors’ handling of the predator until a former altar boy alleged abuse. But the report also charts the alarm bells …

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4 years, 1 month ago

A look at the lawsuits against ex-Cardinal McCarrick

Associated Press

The Vatican is poised to release a long-awaited report on what it knew about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual misconduct during his rise through the church hierarchy. A look at the lawsuits and other settlements involving McCarrick: ___ June 2018: On the same day the Archdiocese of New York announced a credible and substantiated claim of abuse of a minor by …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Vatican Report Shows Clerics Of All Ranks Were Covering Up A Sexual Predator

NPR

Vatican Report Shows Clerics Of All Ranks Were Covering Up A Sexual Predator A new Vatican report on a former cardinal, who was defrocked amid allegations of sexual misconduct, shows that Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were aware of the accusations. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Vatican has issued an unprecedented report into the failings of bishops, cardinals and …

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4 years, 1 month ago

McCarrick: What’s known about the abusive US ex-cardinal

Associated Press

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday will release its report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of rumors that he was a sexual predator. When McCarrick’s crimes were revealed, the scandal sparked such a crisis of confidence in the …

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4 years, 1 month ago

A chronology of the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal McCarrick

Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is set to release its report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of rumors that he was a sexual predator. 28, 2018: Seton Hall University in New Jersey announces it is investigating allegations of …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Suit alleges McCarrick, others abused youth at beach house

Associated Press

A new lawsuit alleges former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and several other clerics sexually abused a teenage boy at a New Jersey beach house in the 1980s. The suit filed this week in state Superior Court in New Jersey claims the youth, who is not named, was first abused at age 11 when he attended Catholic school in Newark …

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He knew of sex abuse allegations on campus. Now he’s university president.

Vatican excommunicates conservative former ambassador to U.S., declares him guilty of schism

Ex-Catholic Cardinal McCarrick, age 93, found unfit to stand trial on teen sex abuse charges

Ex-Roman Catholic cardinal, now 92, is not competent to stand trial in sex abuse case, expert says

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged in Wisconsin with sex abuse

UN, abuse survivor groups seek Vatican investigation of Belo

Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting

Exxon escalates dispute with Russia over barred exit from giant oil project

Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty in sex assault

Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity

Alleging sex abuse, 4 sue Vatican over handling of McCarrick

AP Analysis: 'Who am I to judge?' helps explain pope's view

Vatican’s McCarrick report forces debate on power and abuse

‘It’s crushing': Survivors react to McCarrick abuse report

Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after two-year investigation finds Cardinal McCarrick guilty

Vatican report reveals anonymous letters accusing McCarrick

Vatican faults others for McCarrick’s rise, spares Francis

Pope John Paul II Promoted Cleric After Learning About Sex Abuse Allegations

A look at the lawsuits against ex-Cardinal McCarrick

Vatican Report Shows Clerics Of All Ranks Were Covering Up A Sexual Predator

McCarrick: What’s known about the abusive US ex-cardinal

A chronology of the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal McCarrick

Suit alleges McCarrick, others abused youth at beach house