by Ed Condon Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 17, 2020 / 04:00 am MT (CNA).- U.S. bishops called for prayer, fasting, and reform during a virtual discussion Monday on the Vatican’s McCarrick Report, which was published last week. The discussion came amid the opening day of a virtual fall meeting of

Vatican City, Nov 11, 2020 / 03:50 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis acknowledged the publication of the McCarrick Report at the general audience Wednesday. In brief remarks at the end of the audience Nov. 11, the pope noted that the report on disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick was published Tuesday.

Two years after Pope Francis called for a full accounting of how Theodore McCarrick was able to rise through church ranks and promised to make the report public, the McCarrick Report, issued Nov. 10, is a devastating portrait of personal deception and institutional blindness, of opportunities missed and faith shattered.

Today the Vatican’s Secretariat of State published a complete report on the abusive activities of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, now laicized, with a focus on those who were involved and the timeline of events. Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati responded, “I welcome the publication of the

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Nov 10, 2020 / 06:01 am MT (CNA).- The Vatican’s Secretariat of State published Tuesday a report on Theodore McCarrick, saying that the Holy See had received inaccurate information about McCarrick from three New Jersey bishops before McCarrick’s 2001 appointment as archbishop of Washington. According