Day of Reckoning: Vatican Releases Explosive McCarrick Report

Lengthy study of 449 pages…

Day of Reckoning:
Vatican Releases Explosive McCarrick Report

Demonic not just in appearance: Fr. Theodore “Uncle Ted” McCarrick

[LAST UPDATED: 24-NOV-2020 18:36 UTC]

After over two years of promising its publication, the Vatican has finally released the so-called “McCarrick Report” today. It is 449 pages in length.

As the news is just breaking, we will simply provide links to the full report and initial commentary, along with background information. More may be published in the near future (watch this page for updates).

Official Publications:

• “Report on the Holy See’s Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930 to 2017)” *** FULL TEXT IN PDF FORMAT ***
• McCarrick Report: a sorrowful page the Church is learning from (Vatican News)
• USCCB Statement on Holy See’s Report on Theodore McCarrick (Vatican News)
• Cardinal Parolin’s Statement on McCarrick Report (Zenit)
• Statement of Cardinal Timothy Dolan on the Holy See’s Report on Theodore McCarrick (Archdiocese of New York)
• UK: Church Statement on Publication of Independent Report on Abuse (Zenit)
• Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò slams McCarrick Report (Church Militant)
• Archbishop Viganò Analyzes the Fraudulent McCarrick Report (Catholic Family News)

Press Coverage/Commentary:

• “Vatican’s explosive McCarrick report largely places blame on John Paul II” (National Catholic Reporter)
• “Vatican faults many for McCarrick’s rise, spares Francis” (Associated Press)
• “Vatican Releases Report on Ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick” (Zenit)
• “The McCarrick Report: 40 years of facts laid bare” (Where Peter Is…)
• “McCarrick Report: First Look” (Catholic Herald)
• “McCarrick report summary cites lack of serious investigations of rumors” (Catholic News Service)
• “Francis trusted John Paul and Benedict on McCarrick, report says” (Crux)
• “Vatican Overlooked Warnings of Sexual Misconduct by Former U.S. Cardinal McCarrick, Report Finds” (Wall Street Journal)
• “McCarrick Report: NJ Bishops Gave Vatican ‘Inaccurate’ Information Before McCarrick’s Washington Appointment” (National Catholic Register)
• “McCarrick Report Released: Preliminary Notes” (One Peter Five)
• “Vatican’s McCarrick report: Three popes looked the other way on sex abuse claims” (Religion News Service)
• “McCarrick Report encourages Church to learn from past experiences” (La Croix International)
• “What the McCarrick report tells us about the culture of the hierarchy” (National Catholic Reporter)
• “McCarrick Report: Pope Hero, Viganò Villain” (Church Militant)
• “In Vatican Report, The Many Faces of Ted” (Whispers in the Loggia)
• “Reactions to the McCarrick Report and Viganò’s Response” (Where Peter Is…)
• “Warm Takes on the McCarrick Report” (Catholic Herald)
• “McCarrick Report: don’t ignore the fine print” (Catholic Herald)
• “Top 5 Takeaways from the McCarrick Report” (America)
• “After McCarrick report, Chile wants full accounting of its abuse crisis” (Crux)
• “Wuerl denies knowing of McCarrick rumors” (Pittbsurgh Post-Gazette)
• “The McCarrick Report Is Published: Four ‘Scapegoats’?” (Inside the Vatican)
• “McCarrick report shows previously unknown anonymous letters” (Crux)
• “McCarrick Report: reactions & considerations from the US Church” (Vatican News)
• “‘Time to Eradicate This Evil’ — Day After McCarrick Report Published, Pope Assures Closeness to Victims of Sexual Abuse” (Zenit)
• “McCarrick Report: American Catholics urge ‘truth and transparency’” (Catholic World Report)
• “McCarrick Report: What Cardinal O’Connor said in 1999” (Catholic World Report)
• “McCarrick Report: When one mother had to speak up” (Catholic World Report)
• “Sex Abuse Report Damns Pope, Top Cardinal” (Church Militant)
• “Cardinal Dziwisz defends himself in wake of McCarrick report” (Crux)
• “Vatican report reveals omissions in Archbishop Vigano’s ‘testimony’” (Crux)
• “Pope Francis, retired Pope Benedict questioned for McCarrick report” (Crux)
• “Leading abuse expert hopes McCarrick report ‘will have consequences’” (Crux)
• “U.S. Church leaders point to clericalism as reason for rise of McCarrick” (Crux)
• “How the Vatican missed McCarrick’s sex crimes” (La Croix International)
• “News accounts of McCarrick report find blame levied at popes, others” (Catholic News Service)
• “McCarrick report confirms Pope Francis knew about rumors of ex-Cardinal’s sex abuse and did nothing” (Life Site)
• “The Three Lessons of the McCarrick Report” (Settimo Cielo)
• “‘We need to look this evil in the eye’ – Clergy abuse survivors respond to McCarrick Report” (Catholic World Report)
• “The McCarrick Report: the cover-up continues” (Catholic Culture)
• “Does the McCarrick report exonerate Pope Francis? Yes and no.” (America)
• “Analysis: After McCarrick Report, embracing the cross” (Catholic World Report)
• “Did McCarrick use charitable fund to settle abuse claim?” (Catholic World Report)
• “The McCarrick Report and the need for new protocols (Part 1)” (Catholic World Report)
• “McCarrick, the gay lobby scores again” (Catholic Family News)
• “McCarrick Report: Who do they think they are kidding?” (De Omnibus Dubitandum Est)
• “Vatican’s McCarrick report forces debate on power and abuse” (Crux)
• “History-making report sets a precedent the Vatican can’t walk back” (Crux)
• “Victims ‘welcome’ McCarrick report, but say accountability needed” (Crux)
• “McCarrick whistleblower says he feels ‘vindicated’ by report” (Crux)
• “Special Report: McCarrick vs. Viganò” (Church Militant)
• “Critics Of McCarrick Report Are A Mixed Bag” (Eurasia Review)
• “Vatican’s ‘McCarrick report’ details ex-cardinal’s intimate friendship with Joe Biden, Obama” (Life Site)
• “No, there isn’t any sign the Church has learned from the McCarrick case” (Life Site)
• “The McCarrick Whitewash” (National Review)
• “McCarrick Report: All things visible (and invisible)” (Catholic Herald)
• “McCarrick Report reveals how serial abuser ex-Cardinal lied his way to becoming America’s top prelate” (Life Site)
• “Lessons from the McCarrick Report: Enemies in Rome” (Life Site)
• “What does the McCarrick report tell us?” (Our Sunday Visitor)
• “EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Interviews Archbishop Viganò About McCarrick Report” (National Catholic Register)
• “McCarrick Report: St. John Paul II was deceived about ex-cardinal, says Polish archbishop” (Catholic World Report)
• “In interview with Raymond Arroyo, Viganò denies accusations from McCarrick Report” (Catholic World Report)
• “The McCarrick Report: What does it mean?” (Where Peter Is…)
• “Victims in McCarrick report show fear, courage, anger, need for action” (The Catholic Weekly)
• “Critics Say McCarrick Report Evades Issue of Pervasive Homosexuality in Catholic Clergy” (National Catholic Register)
• “Sainted Too Soon? Vatican Report Cast John Paul II in Harsh New Light” (The New York Times)
• “McCarrick report should be lesson in transparency, say canon lawyers” (Crux)
• “Report shows ‘tragic incompetence’ on McCarrick, Barron says” (Crux)
• “McCarrick Report at odds with Cardinal Wuerl’s claims of ignorance” (Crux)
• “Profiles in clericalism: The real flaw of the McCarrick Report” (La Croix International)
• “What to make of the McCarrick Report?” (La Croix International)
• “The McCarrick Report: Weak links” (Catholic Herald)
• “Reality of the abuse scandals now seems A Tale of Two Cardinals” (Crux)
• “McCarrick’s ‘Nephews’ Still Run the Church” (American Spectator)
• Podcast: “The McCarrick report is a shameful whitewash” (The Spectator)
• “The McCarrick Report: Odds and ends” (Catholic Herald)
• “The McCarrick Report: Weak links” (Catholic Herald)
• “Bishop Barron on the ‘McCarrick Report'” (YouTube)
• “How Will the Church Emerge From the Shadow of the McCarrick Report?” (National Catholic Register)
• “McCarrick Legacy and Abuse continues” (Church Militant)
• “Gregory calls for ‘transparency and contrition’ after McCarrick Report” (Catholic World Report)
• “After the McCarrick Report” (First Things)
• “Cardinal-elect Gregory: McCarrick Report ‘step forward in accountability’” (Vatican News)
• “The McCarrick Report Is Worse Than We Thought” (Crisis)
• “Hard Lessons of the McCarrick Affair” (Catholic World Report)
• “‘Who am I to judge?’ helps explain pope’s view” (Crux)
• “A Second Look into the McCarrick Report” (The Catholic Thing)
• “The McCarrick Report: A timeline” (Catholic World Report)
• “McCarrick’s modus operandi: deceit, division, diversion, and discouragement” (Catholic World Report)
• “The McCarrick Report: Four villains, one saint, and many unanswered questions” (Catholic World Report)
• Podcast: “Abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz responds to the McCarrick Report” (America)
• “McCarrick Report details history of Pope Benedict XVI’s lenient treatment of the case” (Life Site)

Background Information:

• Timeline of key events in case of former Cardinal McCarrick (Catholic News Service)
• Who’s Who’ profiles of key figures in the McCarrick saga (Crux)
• What to know ahead of the McCarrick Report – A CNA Explainer (Catholic News Agency)
• What (not) to expect in the McCarrick report (Catholic Herald)
• “McCarrick’s (and Viganò’s) Reckoning” (Where Peter Is…)
• “McCarrick: What’s known about the abusive US ex-cardinal” (Associated Press)
• “A look at the lawsuits against ex-Cardinal McCarrick” (Associated Press)
• “A reader’s guide to McCarrick report: Beware of bad guys, smoking guns” (Crux)
• “Cardinal McCarrick in 2013: Francis will ‘change’ Church in 5 years” (Life Site)
• “The Vatican’s McCarrick report: a roster of likely figures” (National Catholic Reporter)

Prior Novus Ordo Watch Posts (in chronological order):

• “Uncle Ted” has been Dethroned
• Vatican “Archbishop” blabs, accuses Francis of knowing about and covering up McCarrick’s Sex Abuse
• Vatican Sources: What Viganò says is True, except it’s Worse!
• Vatican issues lackluster Statement on McCarrick Investigation
• “Mister” McCarrick: Former Novus Ordo Cardinal returned to Lay State
• Francis says he knew “Nothing” about McCarrick — “Abp.” Viganò says he’s Lying

The Vatican Secretary of State, “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin (a man with public Bilderberg connections), published a brief video clip accompanying the release of the Report:

Theodore Edgar McCarrick was born on July 7, 1930, ordained a priest on May 31, 1958, consecrated a bishop in the invalid Paul VI rite on June 29, 1977, and elevated to the status of “cardinal” by the false pope John Paul II on Feb. 21, 2001. He was stripped of that status on July 28, 2018 and declared “laicized” (that is, returned to the status of a layman for all intents and purposes) on Feb. 13, 2019, by the false pope Francis.

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