Canonical McCarrick inquiry:
Victim testifies in New York
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| Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick (2010 Getty Image) |
A man accusing ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of sexually
abusing him when he was a teenager has given testimony to the Archdiocese of
New York.
By Alessandro Gisotti
James Grein, a man from the US state of Virginia who claims
to have been abused over the course of several years by Theodore E. McCarrick,
former archbishop of Washington, gave testimony on Thursday to the judicial
vicar of the Archdiocese of New York. The investigation was opened by mandate
of the Holy See through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which
has collected testimony through a delegate who is also an official of the
Archdiocese of New York. Grein, who claims to have been abused since the age of
11, also made a statement to the Associated Press through his lawyer, Patrick
Noaker. “He wants his church back. He felt that in order to accomplish that
end, he had to go in and testify here and tell them what happened, and give the
church itself the chance to do the right thing.”
Pope Francis suspended McCarrick in July
Following the publication of accusations of sexual abuse
against former Archbishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Pope Francis accepted his
resignation as cardinal on July 28th. He also “ordered his
suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, along with the obligation
to remain in a house” for “a life of prayer and penance, until the accusations
made against him are clarified by the regular canonical process.”
Vatican communique on investigations in October
Subsequently, on 6 October, a press release from the Holy
See Press Office reported that, in September 2017, the Archdiocese of New York
had “reported to the Holy See that a man was accusing then-Cardinal McCarrick
of having abuse him in the 1970s.” Pope Francis, the communique continues,
“arranged for an in-depth investigation into the matter, which was carried out
by the Archdiocese of New York. After its conclusion, the relevant
documentation was transmitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith.”
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