On January 14, the Catholic News Agency published a puzzling headline: “Wuerl denies prior denials denied knowledge of McCarrick seminarian abuse”. CNA had proof that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who resigned as Archbishop of Washington in October, was told in 2004 (when he was Bishop of Pittsburgh) of sexual misconduct by ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Wuerl’s convoluted response was that when he denied last June that he knew about McCarrick, he was referring only to an allegation involving a minor. He had indeed been told that “Uncle Ted” preyed on seminarians, but suffered a “lapse of memory”.