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By Jude Russo, The American Conservative, April 9, 2025
Jude Russo is the managing editor of The American Conservative and a contributing editor of The New York Sun. He is a 2024–25 James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College and was named one of the ISI Top 20 Under 30 for 2024.
Theodore McCarrick was a model for the Catholic Church’s dysfunctions.
Theodore McCarrick, the erstwhile archbishop of Washington, DC, shuffled off this mortal coil Thursday with little fanfare. The disgraced cardinal’s decease was overshadowed by the global economic chaos following Wednesday’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.
How do you obituarize a problem like McCarrick? Do you start at the end, with the old man defrocked, silenced, and put in the cupboard following the revelations of sexual misconduct and abuse? Do you start at the beginning, with the young man a protege of the sinister and powerful Francis Cardinal Spellman? The photo-ops with grandees of the American political class? The strange affair of the letter from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the future Pope Benedict XVI? The funeral of Beau Biden? …
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