Catholic Prelate Accused of Abuse

By Mark Joseph Williams
New York Times
June 24, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/catholic-church-sex-abuse.html

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in Washington in 2012.

I don’t buy for one minute that Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick has absolutely no recollection of sexually abusing a minor 47 years ago.

Coincidentally, it was 47 years ago when I was sexually abused by a Catholic priest. Victims do not forget. I haven’t.

Removing a prelate like Cardinal McCarrick so soon after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Juan Barros Madrid of Chile, who also claimed loss of memory, feels like a watershed moment.

For the sake of the church, I hope so.