>>18182399 re: McCarrick is the epstein of the church…

16 Hits in the DoS FOIA reading room for "Theodore McCarrick"

From a Catholic News Agency article in 2018:

"CNA had asked for information about McCarrick's roles with the State Department, a summary of his trips, and whether the State Department is reviewing the trips for potential misconduct. The department was also asked whether it had any knowledge of misconduct or rumored misconduct by McCarrick and whether it had been informed of any Catholic disciplinary action taken against the former Archbishop of Washington.

McCarrick served in diplomatic roles for both the Holy See and the U.S. State Department. In November 1996, McCarrick was invited to serve on the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom.

In the year 2000, the U.S. Secretary of State recommended him for the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, a recommendation approved by then-President Bill Clinton. At the award ceremony Dec. 6, 2000 Clinton said that two years prior he had sent McCarrick as one of his representatives on "a groundbreaking trip to discuss religious freedom with China's leaders."

"In tough places, where civilians are struggling to get out, chances are you will find Archbishop Theodore McCarrick working hard to get in and to help them," Clinton said. "The litany of countries he has visited sounds more suited to a diplomat than an archbishop: the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, the countries devastated by Hurricane Mitch, East Timor, Ethiopia, Burundi, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia."

The Archdiocese of New York's June 2018 announcement of a credible accusation that McCarrick had abused a minor decades previously set in motion a wave of allegations about misconduct, including misconduct with seminarians. It is now known that Archbishop McCarrick was the subject of two legal settlements in 2005 and 2007 with men who said he sexually abused them while they were seminarians for the New Jersey dioceses he headed until his move to the Washington archdiocese in 2001.

McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals on July 27, the first American ever to do so, and Pope Francis ordered him to observe "a life of prayer and penance in seclusion" until the conclusion of the canonical process against him.

Questions about his alleged misconduct became even more controversial after ''Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano'', the former apostolic nuncio to the U.S., released an 11-page statement charging that senior bishops and cardinals for more than a decade had been aware of the allegations of his misconduct against priests and seminarians. Archbishop Viganò also stated that, in either 2009 or 2010, Pope Benedict XVI imposed sanctions on McCarrick "similar to those now imposed upon him by Pope Francis" and that McCarrick was forbidden from traveling and speaking in public."

https://archive.ph/Lvhn0

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=%22Theodore%20McCarrick%22&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=

>>18182813 (me)

Vigano on McCarrick:

My first intervention about McCarrick, which I made as Delegate for Pontifical Representations in the Secretariat of State, dates back to Dec. 6, 2006, following a report of the then-nuncio to the United States, Abp. Pietro Sambi. Subsequently, in 2008, I presented a second memorandum that reported facts of such gravity and in such detail that it led me to recommend that McCarrick be deposed as cardinal and that he be reduced to the lay state. My testimony of August 2018 is known to everyone, as are my subsequent declarations.

It is completely incomprehensible and anomalous that it was not considered opportune to call upon me to testify. But it is even more disturbing that this deliberate omission was then used against me. And they cannot claim that I made myself untraceable; the Secretariat of State has my personal email address, which is still active.

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Furthermore, it also seems significant to me that James Grein, the only victim of McCarrick's sexual molestations who had the courage to denounce him publicly does not appear in the report, and that there is no trace of his testimony, in which he would have also reported the trip he made with McCarrick to St. Gallen at the end of the 1950s.

From the public statements of James Grein, it is clear that the beginning of McCarrick's climb — he was then a young, newly ordained priest — coincided with that visit to Switzerland, to a monastery that was later the site of the meetings of the conspirators of the so-called "St. Gallen mafia." According to the declarations of the deceased Cdl. Godfried Danneels, that group of prelates decided to support the election of Bergoglio both after the death of John Paul II as well as during the conclave that followed the controversial resignation of Benedict XVI.

[moar at link] https://archive.ph/JE9uM

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vigano-mccarrick-report