Cover-Up Culture Gave McCarrick License, by William Mahoney

By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant, August 14, 2020

New investigation sheds light on old crimes

Mark Crawford and Fr. Kenneth Martin

NEWARK, N.J. (ChurchMilitant.com) – New details are emerging regarding the Church hierarchy’s cover-up of notorious homosexual pederast Theodore McCarrick, freeing the former cardinal to continue with his crimes unabated.

An investigative analysis published on Monday reveals that Vatican officials and other prelates ignored or overlooked reports on McCarrick’s misdeeds and odd sleeping arrangements with seminarians at his infamous beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey.

Now working for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Mark Crawford met with McCarrick in 1997 to inform the then-archbishop of Newark that Fr. Kenneth Martin had beaten and sexually abused him and his brother. McCarrick did not keep any of the promises he made during that meeting so Crawford wrote the U.S. cardinals in 1998 for help.  …

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