CNA: A Timeline of Abuse Allegations Against Deceased Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick

By CNA Staff, April 4, 2025

This timeline was first published on CNA on Nov. 21, 2020, and was updated April 4, 2025.

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CNA Newsroom, Apr 4, 2025 / 19:20 pm – The following is a timeline of important dates from the McCarrick Report and elsewhere regarding abuse allegations against recently deceased former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Published by the Vatican on Nov. 10, 2020, the McCarrick Report examined the “institutional knowledge and decision-making” regarding McCarrick, who was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors and seminarians in 2019 and laicized after an expedited canonical investigation.

July 7, 1930: Theodore Edgar McCarrick is born in New York City, the only child of Theodore E. and Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick.

1954: McCarrick graduates from Fordham University in New York with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy.

1954-1958: McCarrick attends St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York and attains a master of arts degree in theology.

May 31, 1958: New York Cardinal Francis Spellman ordains McCarrick to the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. McCarrick is incardinated into the Archdiocese of New York. ….

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