I remember the first time I heard about then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sharing a bed with young seminarians.
It was 2002, and I was working at the Vatican. A co-worker told me how he had taken part in a weekend retreat with McCarrick years earlier, when he was a seminarian and McCarrick was a bishop. It was two to a bed in the house, and he was assigned to share with McCarrick.
He said McCarrick only placed a hand on his shoulder before falling asleep, but he also said he had heard stories of more “intimate” encounters between McCarrick and others in similar circumstances.
