Exhibit 477 ยท Institutional report
Report on the Holy See's Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930 to 2017)
In June 2017, the Archdiocese of New York learned of the first known allegation of sexual abuse by McCarrick of a victim under 18 years of age, which occurred in the early 1970s.
Vatican report ordered by Pope Francis on 6 October 2018, based on archives and over ninety interviews. Documents what Holy See and U.S. officials knew from the 1990s about allegations concerning adults and young adults, a 2000 inquiry in which three of four New Jersey bishops gave inaccurate or incomplete information, and the decision to appoint him to Washington. The first known allegation of abuse of a minor reached the Archdiocese of New York in June 2017. The report states it does not examine canon-law culpability and does not publish the Acta.
- Source
- Secretariat of State of the Holy See
- Date
- 10 November 2020
- Quoted from
- Section I.B, Executive Summary, p. 14
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_rapporto-card-mccarrick_20201110_en.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit