It’s getting to the point someone can recover a memory of a bishop shaking hands too firmly 17 years prior and that entitles the “victim” to $500,000 compensation.
Too many inconsistencies in McCarrick stories, and church’s position is all priests accused go under bus for PR. The Cardinal was an active homo with ADULT men who were also homos. Gross, but not against the law and not sex abuse. There is more info hidden than out.
From the accounts McCarrick used his position to coerce seminarians into behaviors they were at the lease uncomfortable with. It would be difficult to claim that consent was given when the persons involved were on such an unequal footing. McCarrick had a lot of power he could have used against these young men. What he did was wrong. And it was abuse.