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✣ Cardinal Wuerl: I was ‘imprecise’ on McCarrick
What happened? Cardinal Donald Wuerl relayed an allegation of abuse against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to the nuncio in 2004, the Archdiocese of Washington confirmed.
The revelation appears to contradict Wuerl’s statements last year that he had not even heard rumours of abuse before 2018.
The archdiocese said the cardinal had “not intended to be imprecise” and that his previous statements referred only to child abuse. The 2004 allegation related to sexual misconduct with a seminarian.
