Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick was removed from ministry last month for sexually abusing an altar boy. But, as this New York Times article exposes, the church overlooked his harassment of adult seminarians for decades.
As is the case for most sexual abuse and harassment situations, this has been an open secret for decades. The church had not, as this article contends, “overlooked his harassment of adult seminarians”. What they did is cover it up.
How many more will be exposed before the church comes clean with what they know about others in the church regardless of how high they have to go in culling the predators in their mist? Until they do, they have no moral authority to give spiritual guidance to others.