Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2018 / 11:30 am
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo has issued a strongly worded statement addressing the "grievous moral failure" in the Church revealed by the scandal surrounding former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
In a statement released today, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the accusations against Archbishop McCarrick have caused "anger, sadness, and shame" for American bishops, himself included.
The statement comes after it was announced that Pope Francis had accepted McCarrick's resignation as a cardinal, and assigned him to live in "seclusion, prayer, and penance" pending the outcome of a canonical process.
Addressing both the accusations against McCarrick and the fact that they went publicly undisclosed for decades, Cardinal DiNardo said that great harm had been done, and that there had been "grave moral failures of judgment" by Church leaders.