CHICAGO (IL)
CBS Chicago
Jay Levine
(CBS) – Francis Cardinal George, a few weeks from his retirement as Archbishop of Chicago, shares new details about his battle with cancer and reveals he would be willing to communicate with a former priest convicted of sexually abusing young people.
George talks with CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine and looks ahead to retirement, not really knowing what it will hold.
“Depending on my health, I’ll do this or do that,” George says. “It’s kind of murky.” …
But as he looks back on the 17 years here, I asked him one more time about what he’s called his disappointment: the only instance of abuse of children on his watch, by former priest Dan McCormack.
George says he prays for him every day.
“Could anything be gained by talking to him?” Levine asks.
The Cardinal says he’s not sure. “(It) might be to him, and if it ever is, then I would be more than willing to do so,” he says.
Asked if he has reached out to McCormack, George replied: “There’s been some, some discussions — but always through lawyers.”
George says he’s proud of reforms he saw through that are meant to prevent a repeat of the McCormack case. The victims are in his prayers every day, he says.
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