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An only child, McCarrick was born into an Irish American family in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick. [16] His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old, [17] and his mother then worked at an automobile parts factory in The Bronx. [18]
One notable mass which McCarrick participated in occurred at the 2010 papal consistory where Donald Wuerl, his successor as Archbishop of Washington D.C., was made a cardinal. [56] McCarrick also made a public appearance at the Library of Congress in 2011 and joined other American bishops during their five-year "check-in" with Pope Benedict in ...
Pope Francis raised Gregory to the rank of cardinal at a consistory in Rome in November 2020. In December 2019, The Washington Post reported that McCarrick had given John Paul II $90,000 during the early 1990s and Benedict XVI $291,000 starting in 2005. McCarrick also made smaller donations to other Vatican officials, The money came from the ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local):
McCarrick is the only U.S. Catholic cardinal, current or former, ever to be criminally charged with child sex crimes. More: Theodore McCarrick, age 93, ruled not competent to stand trial on teen ...
McCarrick, who did not appear in person for the hearing but listened in by phone, was charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show.
Archbishop McCarrick in June 2006. To replace McCarrick, John Paul II selected Bishop John J. Myers of the Diocese of Peoria in 2001. [43] Later that year, Myers banned eulogies at funeral masses in the archdiocese, saying that some eulogies were inappropriate and too long. After pushback from parishioners, he reversed himself. [44]
The disgraced ex-cardinal was removed from priesthood in 2019, following the conclusion of a Vatican investigation. Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick criminally charged with sexual assault of ...