The Catholic Herald offers this piece by international editor and Rome bureau chief Christopher Altieri, in anteprima, ahead of our December issue. There is a popular misconception – one to which even old Vatican hands are frequently tempted – according to which the architects of the McCarrick Report intended it to be an exhaustive account of the McCarrick Affair. It is not. The McCarrick Report was never meant to be any such thing. The McCarrick Report is a review of the documentary evidence on file in the Vatican and various other places. Investigators apparently went beyond the originally stated purpose of their work – and although one can criticise their efforts in that regard, they do appear to have conducted some extensive interviews and searches of archives and other document troves. The architects of the Report are nevertheless primarily concerned with how Uncle Ted got where he did and stayed for so long.