Two popes and multiple priests, cardinals and archbishops received part of $600,000 in financial gifts from former Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who controlled a discretionary fund, according to a report published on December 27 by the Washington Post.
The newspaper said that, through interviews and access to financial records, it determined that over a period of two decades, McCarrick drew on the "Archbishop's Special Fund" account set up at the Archdiocese of Washington, where he was the archbishop from 2001 until 2006. Though the majority of the $6 million the fund raised in almost two decades went to charities, many priests and more than 60 cardinals and archbishops benefited from it, the newspaper reported.
