By John Lavenburg, Crux, Feb 11, 2025
NEW YORK – Cardinal Joseph Tobin has ordered an independent review of the results of an independent investigation he ordered on behalf of Seton Hall University in 2019 regarding Theodore McCarrick, with a particular focus on references to the university’s current president Msgr. Joseph Reilly.
Reilly was appointed president of Seton Hall by the Board of Regents in 2024. In 2023, after a year sabbatical, he assumed a post as vice provost of academics and Catholic identity. Prior, from 2012-2022, he was the rector/dean of the university’s Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology.
Recent media reports have alleged that Reilly was appointed president of the university despite the 2019 investigation into the fallout from the McCarrick scandal finding multiple instances where Reilly, in his role as rector/dean, failed to properly report allegations of sex abuse on campus. …
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