The Vatican Secretariat of State's own report, released November 10, 2020 after a two year investigation, into what the Holy See knew and when about Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of minors and misconduct with seminarians and adults across decades. McCarrick was found canonically guilty and laicized, the Catholic Church's most severe penalty for clergy, in February 2019, the highest ranking Catholic cleric defrocked in modern times; this atlas states that laicization precisely wherever McCarrick is named. The report itself documents specific institutional failures, including a written 1999 warning from Cardinal John O'Connor to Pope John Paul II against elevating McCarrick, which went unheeded when McCarrick was made Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and a cardinal shortly after.
Facts
Citation
AuthorSecretariat of State, Holy See
PublisherThe Vatican
Publication Year2020
URLhttps://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_rapporto-card-mccarrick_20201110_en.pdf
Source Typechurch body
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: the primary official record, published directly on vatican.va by the institution whose own conduct it examines, which is itself part of the document's significance. NotesTier 1: the primary official record, published directly on vatican.va by the institution whose own conduct it examines, which is itself part of the document's significance.
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Associated With
This source names The Holy See directly: "a two year investigation, into what the Holy See knew and when about Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of minors and misconduct with seminarians and adults across decades."
This source names Pope John Paul II directly: "warning from Cardinal John O'Connor to Pope John Paul II against elevating McCarrick, which went unheeded when McCarrick was made Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and a cardinal shortly after."
This source names Vatican directly: "The Vatican Secretariat of State's own report, released November 10, 2020 after a two year investigation, into what the Holy See knew and when about Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of minors and..."
This source names Washington directly: "when McCarrick was made Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and a cardinal shortly after."
Claims Backed By This Source (33 claims)
This source backs 33 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds, 2 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 15 claims: 9 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 12 claims: 8 well-attested, 4 holds.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 1 claims: 1 connected.
Well-attested
20Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Holds
9Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
2Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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